Latest Trends in Renewable Energy Technologies : Select Proceedings of NCRESE 2020 / by National Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment (2020 : Online), organiser 642879, Vadhera, Shelly, editor 642885, Umre, Bhimrao S., editor 642886, Kalam, Akhtar, editor 495444

Effects of engine oil additives on engine performance and temperature by Law, Zheng Yi

“…Nowadays, the usage of diesel engines is getting more and more common for vehicles, especially cars, heavy duty trucks and buses due to its low fuel consumption rate as compared to others. …”
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Experimental Evaluation of Underwater Semantic SLAM by Song, Thomas Jeongho

“…These environments pose significant difficulties for human-operated systems because of limited visibility, high pressure, and vast areas that are costly and risky to explore manually. Implementing autonomy in underwater vehicles presents unique challenges due to the marine environment's harsh and complex nature. …”
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Enhancing network access for highly mobile nodes by Xia, Yang

“…On the other hand, mobile Internet access through roadside Access Points (APs) has emerged as an alternative to cellular networks due to its high bandwidth and low cost. However, due to the limited range and sparse deployment of roadside APs, several issues could arise when vehicles roam between APs. …”
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An evaluation framework for second-life EV/PHEV battery application in power systems by Chai, Songjian, Xu, Ning Zhou, Niu, Ming, Chan, Ka Wing, Chung, Chi Yung, Jiang, Hui, Sun, Yuxin

“…Building a battery energy storage system (BESS) with retired battery packs from electric vehicles (EVs) or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) is one possible way to subsidize the price of EV/PHEV batteries, and at the same time mitigating forecast error introduced by load and renewable energy sources in power systems. …”
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Autonomous bus in 3D simulation environments by Xiang, Zhou

“…However. it is extremely time-consuming and of high-cost to design, develop, manufacture and test the actual autonomous vehicle in real world. …”
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The Value of Demand Forecasting in Stochastic Last-Mile Fleet Sizing and Composition Planning by Zinnenlauf, Philipp, Pina-Pardo, Juan C, Winkenbach, Matthias

“…Customer demand constitutes a crucial source of uncertainty in designing and operating complex and costly urban last-mile distribution operations. To mitigate associated risks, companies are diversifying their last-mile delivery options, exploring new vehicle types, and engaging in varied contracting schemes, encompassing vehicle rentals and spot market capacity utilization. …”
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Deep learning based monocular visual-inertial odometry by Mahdi Abolfazli Esfahani

“…In between all sensor combinations, using a monocular camera simultaneously with an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) is in researchers' focus in the past three years because of its lightweight, low-cost, and small combinations of sensors. This combination can be used in many applications, from smart mobile phones to micro aerial vehicles. …”
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Risk-based two-stage optimal scheduling of energy storage system with second-life battery units by Zhang, Yongxi, Zhu, Jiahua, Xu, Yan, Zhou, Renjun, Dong, Zhao Yang

“…With the growing adoption of Electrical Vehicles (EVs), it is expected that a large number of on-board Li-ion batteries will be retired from EVs in the near future. …”
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Perseus AUV: Towards Linear Convoying of Agile A-Sized AUVs Through Acoustic Track-and-Trail by Rypkema, Nicholas R., Randeni, Supun, Sacarny, Michael, Benjamin, Michael, Triantafyllou, Michael

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Effects of transport inhibitors on the cellular uptake of liposomes from mycobacterium smegmatis by human monocytes dendritic cells by Nordin, Nor Asyikin

“…Nowadays, it is widely used as an adjuvant or even a vehicle to deliver various therapeutic agents. Liposomes are biocompatible, biodegradable and have lower production costs, so due to these factors, much attention is devoted to them as potential carriers for targeted delivery in biomedical research for their adjuvant effects on dendritic cells (DCs). …”
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Open-RadVLAD: fast and robust radar place recognition by Gadd, M, Newman, P

“…Radar place recognition often involves encoding a live scan as a vector and matching this vector to a database in order to recognise that the vehicle is in a location that it has visited before. …”

Overcoming endurance issue : UAV-enabled communications with proactive caching by Xu, Xiaoli, Zeng, Yong, Guan, Yong Liang, Zhang, Rui

“…Wireless communication enabled by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has emerged as an appealing technology for many application scenarios in future wireless systems. …”
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Turning trash into treasure: exploring the potential of AI in municipal waste management - an in-depth review and future prospects by El Jaouhari, Asmae, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Kumar, Anil, Mulat-Weldemeskel, Eyob, Luthra, Sunil, Kumar, Rajesh

“…Researchers, policymakers, municipalities, governments, and other waste management organizations will benefit from this study to minimize costs, maximize efficiency, eliminate the need for manual labor, and change the approach to MWM.…”
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Multi-sensor calibration and multi-modal perception for intelligent systems by Zhang, Jun

“…For example, different sensors are mounted on unmanned vehicles, autonomous mobile robots and to the road side. …”
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Transition optimization for a VTOL tail-sitter UAV by Li, Boyang, Sun, Jingxuan, Zhou, Weifeng, Wen, Chih-Yung, Low, Kin Huat, Chen, Chih-Keng

“…The strategy is a reference maneuver enabling the vehicle to perform transition efficiently by minimizing the cost of energy and maintaining a small change of altitude. …”
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Learning-enabled decision-making for autonomous driving: framework and methodology by Huang, Zhiyu

“…The growing adoption of autonomous vehicles (AVs) holds the promise of transforming transportation systems, enhancing traffic safety, and supporting environmental sustainability. …”
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Expanded travel behaviour model with travel-based multitasking by Sun, Shanshan

“…People’s travel time/ cost perception and autonomous vehicle adoption are found to vary across different levels of being a multitasker (i.e., strength in travel-based multitasking habit) or screen addict (i.e., strength in smart device addiction).…”
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Robust congestion management and service restoration for active distribution networks by Shen,Feifan

“…The flexible demands including electrical vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps (HPs) can shift power consumption from peak hours to off-peak hours to minimize energy costs, which consequently leads to congestion in those hours with low electricity prices. …”
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Power converter design for unmanned vessel by Yeap, Mark JIe Zhi

“…Electrical power converters are the basic important parts of certain applications like unmanned vehicles, solar, motor drives, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), etc. …”
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