Download or read book Sustainable Transport Mobility Management and Travel Plans written by Marcus Enoch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the development of the travel plan as a concept, this book draws on a range of research-based contributions to determine the state-of-the-art and to explore a series of future scenarios in this area for practitioners and policy makers. Site-based mobility management or 'travel plans' address the transport problem by engaging with those organisations such as employers that are directly responsible for generating the demand for travel, and hence have the potential to have a major impact on transport policy. To do this effectively however, travel plans need to be reoriented to be made more relevant to the needs of these organisations, whilst the policy framework in which they operate needs modifying to better support their diffusion and enhance their effectiveness. Marcus Enoch breaks down the travel plan concept into four axes related to its development (namely segment, scale, structure and support), and investigates the following questions: - What makes them special? - Why are they introduced? - What do they look like in terms of their design and the measures they use? - How common are they and in what sectors and location types? - How effective are they? - What barriers do they face and how might these be overcome?

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Download or read book Embedded Computer Systems Architectures Modeling and Simulation written by Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, SAMOS 2019, held in Pythagorion, Samos, Greece, in July 2019. The 21 regular papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on system design space exploration; deep learning optimization; system security; multi/many-core scheduling; system energy and heat management; many-core communication; and electronic system-level design and verification. In addition there are 13 papers from three special sessions which were organized on topics of current interest: insights from negative results; machine learning implementations; and European projects.

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Download or read book Commande d un robot collaboratif redondant en interaction avec des humains dans un contexte de manipulation et d assemblage written by Pascal Labrecque and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette thèse présente deux nouvelles architectures de commande pour les interactions physiques humain-robot (pHRIs). Ces architectures sont spéciquement développées dans une vision d'implantation en industrie pour les manipulations d'assemblage. En effet, deux types de robots collaboratifs adaptés à dfférentes contraintes de l'industrie et ayant des interfaces d'interactions physiques différentes sont étudiés en utilisant chacun leur propre architecture de commande. Le premier robot collaboratif développé est un manipulateur entièrement actionné permettant des pHRIs dans son espace libre, c.-à-d., des interactions unilatérales, et des pHRIs lorsque ses mouvements sont contraints par un environnement quelconque, c.-à-d., des interactions bilatérales. Les interactions de l'humain peuvent s'effectuer sur n'importe quelles parties du robot grâce aux capteurs de couples dans les articulations. Cependant, si une amplication des forces de l'humain sur l'environnement est désirée, alors il est nécessaire d'utiliser le capteur d'efforts supplémentaire attaché au robot. Ceci permet à la commande, en combinant les lectures du capteur d'efforts à l'effecteur, d'utiliser le ratio des forces appliquées indépendamment par l'opérateur et par l'environnement an de générer l'amplication désirée. Cette loi de commande est basée sur l'admittance variable qui a déjà démontré ses bénéces pour les interactions unilatérales. Ici, l'admittance variable est adaptée aux interactions bilatérales an d'obtenir un seul algorithme de commande pour tous les états. Une loi de transition continue peut alors être dénie an d'atteindre les performances optimales pour chaque mode d'interaction qui, en fait, nécessitent chacun des valeurs de paramètres spéciques. Le cheminement et les résultats pour arriver à cette première architecture de commande sont présentés en trois étapes. Premièrement, la loi de commande est implémentée sur un prototype à un degré de liberté (ddl) an de tester le potentiel d'amplication et de transition, ainsi que la stabilité de l'interaction. Deuxièmement, un algorithme d'optimisation du régulateur pour les interactions bilatérales avec un robot à plusieurs ddls est développé. Cet algorithme vérie la stabilité robuste du système en utilisant l'approche des valeurs singulières structurées (- analysis), pour ensuite faire une optimisation des régulateurs stables en fonction d'une variable liée à la conguration du manipulateur. Ceci permet d'obtenir une loi de commande variable qui rend le système stable de façon robuste en atteignant des performances optimales peu iii importe la conguration des articulations du robot. La loi de commande trouvée utilise un séquencement de gain pour les paramètres du régulateur par admittance durant les interactions bilatérales. La stabilité et la performance du système sont validées avec des tests d'impact sur différents environnements. Finalement, la loi de commande en admittance variable optimale est implémentée et validée sur un robot manipulateur à plusieurs ddls (Kuka LWR 4) à l'aide de suivis de trajectoire pour des interactions unilatérales et bilatérales. Le deuxième robot collaboratif développé est un manipulateur partiellement actif et partiellement passif. L'architecture mécanique du robot est appelée macro-mini. Tous les degrés de liberté actionnés faisant partie du macro manipulateur sont doublés par les articulations passives du mini manipulateur. Le robot est alors sous-actionné. L'opérateur humain interagit uniquement avec le mini manipulateur, et donc, avec les articulations passives ce qui élimine tous délais dans la dynamique d'interaction. Ce robot collaboratif permet de dénir une loi de commande qui génère une très faible impédance lors des interactions de l'opérateur, et ce, même pour des charges utiles élevées. Malgré que des amplications de force ne peuvent être produites, les interactions bilatérales ont une stabilité assurée peu importe la situation. Aussi, les modes coopératif et autonome du robot utilisent les mêmes valeurs de paramètres de commande ce qui permet une transition imperceptible d'un à l'autre. La nouvelle loi de commande est comparée sur plusieurs aspects avec la commande en admittance variable précé- demment développée. Les résultats démontrent que cette nouvelle loi de commande combinée à l'architecture active-passive du macro-mini manipulateur, appelé uMan, permet des interactions intuitives et sécuritaires bien supérieures à ce qu'un système entièrement actionné peut générer. De plus, pour l'assistance autonome, une détection de collision avancée et une plani cation de trajectoire adaptée à l'architecture du robot sont développées. Des validations expérimentales sont présentées an d'évaluer la facilité à produire des manipulations nes, de démontrer la sécurité du système et d'établir la viabilité du concept en industrie.