山区高速公路高边坡防治对策

针对高速公路进山后，横断山区高速公路建设中出现的“谈坡色变”的修山“景观”——高边坡存在的风险及质量、投资和工期上的潜在隐患以及大面积破坏自然环境引起的水土流失，甚至降低了高速公路抗灾防灾能力等问题，结合近年来的探索和思考，提出避免和减少高边坡数量(高度和处数)的意见和建议。     

人工智能在车辆自动驾驶中的应用

提出一种新的基于人工智能的感知 计划 动作agent结构实现智能车辆自动驾驶的方案。首先通过描述该结构的原理说明该结构可以解决自动驾驶中存在的一些问题,接着通过建立自动驾驶知识库阐述如何具体实现自动驾驶,最后通过仿真实验验证该方法能够为智能车辆实现自动或辅助驾驶提供一种非常有效的机制。     

液压驱动工程车辆牵引性能参数在行走机构滑转曲线上的配置与控制方法研究

提出了一种利用液压无级变速传动,进行恒功率速度自适应控制,动态工况下的牵引性能参数按照静态匹配理论计算,但在行走机构全打滑前进行极限负荷控制的设计方法.实践表明这是一种提高车辆动力性、经济性和作业生产率综合性能以及实现自动化的有效途径.     

基于复合神经网络模型的四轮独立驱动电动车控制

针对四轮独立驱动电动车的运动控制，提出了一种基于Ackerman转向模型和神经网络方法的复合模型，用于对各个车轮转速进行仿真和控制。这种复合模型的特点是结构非常精简，其参数可用实际整车数据来直接整定，尤其适合于车辆的中低速运行控制。     

磁导航车体运动数字控制系统数学模型研究

探讨磁导航车体运动数字控制系统的数学模型。用实验方法建立磁导航车体运动数字控制系统典型环节的时间连续数学模型,结合车体运动机械操纵环节的传统数学模型建立整个控制系统的时间连续数学模型。利用Z变换方法把控制系统时间连续数学模型转换成离散数学模型,引入数字控制系统典型环节的数学模型,建立磁导航车体运动数字控制系统的离散数学模型。设计数字控制系统的二次型最优控制器并进行计算机仿真。仿真分析结果验证了数学模型的有效性。     

Experimental evaluation of Heavy Duty Vehicle speed patterns in urban and port areas and estimation of their fuel consumption and exhaust emissions

Exhaust emissions and fuel consumption of Heavy Duty Vehicles (HDVs) in urban and port areas were evaluated through a dedicated investigation. The HDV fleet composition and traffic driving from highways to the maritime port of Genoa and crossing the city were analysed. Typical urban trips linking highway exits to port gates and HDV mission profiles within the port area were defined. A validation was performed through on-board instrumentation to record HDV instantaneous speeds in urban and port zones. A statistical procedure enabled the building-up of representative speed patterns. High contrasts and specific driving conditions were observed in the port area. Representative speed profiles were then used to simulate fuel consumption and emissions for HDVs, using the Passenger car and Heavy duty Emission Model (PHEM). Complementary estimations were derived from Copert and HBEFA methodologies, allowing the comparison of different calculation approaches and scales. Finally, PHEM was implemented to assess the performances of EGR or SCR systems for NO_X reduction in urban driving and at very low speeds.The method and results of the investigation are presented. Fuel consumption and pollutant emission estimation through different methodologies are discussed, as well as the necessity of characterizing very local driving conditions for appropriate assessment.     

The impact of the Polar Code on risk mitigation in Arctic waters: a “toolbox” for underwriters?

The existing risk weighing on vessel, crew and ecosystem in the Arctic and more globally in Polar waters promoted the adoption of the Polar Code (PC) early 2017, a mandatory international legal framework intended for enhanced safety and environmental protection. While the substance of the PC has been extensively analyzed, few studies have focused on the underlying relationships between the PC and underwriters. Based on an extensive literature review, documentary materials and interviews with insurance companies, this article conceptualizes the PC as a “toolbox” and analyzes how underwriters can exploit it in their work within the emerging Arctic market. The PC does not only regulate the navigation in Arctic waters in legal terms, but is also aimed at mitigating risks in the Polar areas through the identification of hazard sources and proceduralization of risk assessment. As a result we observe a certain “Polar Code paradox”. Even though the PC is a risk-based instrument and constitutes a key step for improving ship insurability, it has only limited capacity to assist underwriters in assessing risks and insuring vessels. Marine insurers still face a lack of data and high pending uncertainties leading them to exercise extreme caution with Arctic risks appraisal.     

Mental models of driving and speed: biases,choices and reality

This paper provides a review of research performed by Svenson with colleagues and others work on mental models and their practical implications. Mental models describe how people perceive and think about the world including covariances and relationships between different variables, such as driving speed and time. Research on mental models has detected the time-saving bias [Svenson, O. (1970). A functional measurement approach to intuitive estimation as exemplified by estimated time savings. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 86, 204–210]. It means that drivers relatively overestimate the time that can be saved by increasing speed from an already high speed, for example, 90–130?km/h, and underestimate the time that can be saved by increasing speed from a low speed, for example, 30–45?km/h. In congruence with this finding, mean speed judgments and perceptions of mean speeds are also biased and higher speeds given too much weight and low speeds too little weight in comparison with objective reality. Replacing or adding a new speedometer in the car showing min per km eliminated or weakened the time-saving bias. Information about braking distances at different speeds did not improve overoptimistic judgments of braking capacity, but information about collision speed with an object suddenly appearing on the road did improve judgments of braking capacity. This is relevant to drivers, politicians and traffic regulators.     

Field tests of a dynamic green driving strategy based on inter-vehicle communication

This paper presents the design and results for field tests regarding the environmental benefits in stop-and-go traffic of an algorithmic green driving strategy based on inter-vehicle communication (IVC), which was proposed in Yang and Jin (2014). The green driving strategy dynamically calculates advisory speed limits for vehicles equipped with IVC devices so as to smooth their speed profiles and reduce their emissions and fuel consumption. For the field tests, we develop a smartphone-based IVC system, in which vehicles’ speeds and locations are collected by GPS and accelerometer sensors embedded in smartphones, and communications among vehicles are enabled by specially designed smartphone applications, a central server, and 4G cellular networks. Six field tests are carried out on an uninterrupted ring road under slow or fast stop-and-go traffic conditions. We compare the performances of three alternatives: no green driving, heuristic green driving, and the IVC-based algorithmic green driving. Results show that heuristic green driving has better smoothing and environmental effects than no green driving, but the IVC-based algorithmic green driving outperforms both. In the future, we are interested in field tests under more realistic traffic conditions.     

船舶低硫柴油系统设计的分析与优化

就新辟航线首制船“汉亚直达”集装箱船的低硫柴油系统,叙述了船舶低硫柴油系统的设计经验,从当前国内外对船用燃油硫含量的要求、应对方案到船舶低硫柴油冷却方式选择、低硫柴油冷却系统设计、高/低硫柴油转换、使用低硫柴油风险分析及处理等方面进行详细叙述,为业内同行提供参考。