• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.43-57
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• 2022

One of the instances which demand structural engineer's greatest attention and upgradation is the changing live load requirement in bridge design code. The challenge increases in developing countries as the pace of infrastructural growth is being catered by the respective country codes with bigger and heavier vehicles to be considered in the design. This paper presents the case study of India where Indian Roads Congress (IRC) codes in its revised version from 2014 to 2017 introduced massive Special vehicle (SV) around 40 m long and weighing 3850 kN to be considered in the design of road bridges. The code does not specify the minimum distance between successive special vehicles unlike other loading classes and hence the consequences of it form the motivation for this study. The effect of SV in comparison with Class 70R, Class AA, Class A, and Class B loading is studied based on the maximum bending moment with moving load applied in Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis. The spans considered in the analysis varied from 10 m to 1991 m corresponding to the span of Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (longest bridge span in the world). A total of 182 analyses for 7 types of vehicles (class B, class A, class 70R tracked, class 70R wheeled, class AA tracked, AA wheeled, and Special vehicle) on 26 different span lengths is carried out. The span corresponding to other vehicles which would equal the bending moment of a single SV is presented along with a comparison relative to Standard Uniformly Distributed Load. Further, the results are presented by introducing a new parameter named Intensity Factor which is proven to relate the effect of axle spacing of vehicle on the normalized bending moment developed.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.140-146
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• 2013

In this paper, we describe a vision sensor-based driving algorithm for indoor automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) that facilitates a path tracking task using two mono cameras for navigation. One camera is mounted on vehicle to observe the environment and to detect markers in front of the vehicle. The other camera is attached so the view is perpendicular to the floor, which compensates for the distance between the wheels and markers. The angle and distance from the center of the two wheels to the center of marker are also obtained using these two cameras. We propose five movement patterns for AGVs to guarantee smooth performance during path tracking: starting, moving straight, pre-turning, left/right turning, and stopping. This driving algorithm based on two vision sensors gives greater flexibility to AGVs, including easy layout change, autonomy, and even economy. The algorithm was validated in an experiment using a two-wheeled mobile robot.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2008

자유롭고 빠르게 이동할 수 있도록 도와주는 개인 이동 수단인 two-wheel balancing vehicle은 inverted pendulum 시스템의 원리를 이용한 것으로, 최근 들어 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있고 이를 이용한 제품이 실제 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 일반적인 PID 제어이론을 이용한 two-wheel balancing vehicle에 대한 제어성능을 개선시키는 새로운 제어방식을 제안한다. 제안한 방식은 퍼지 PD+I 제어방식으로 향상된 PID 제어의 일종으로 2개의 입력과 1개의 출력을 가진 퍼지시스템에 적분 신호를 더함으로써 출력신호를 만든다. 퍼지시스템의 비선형성은 시간공정에서 비례신호와 미분신호의 가중치를 변화함으로써 최적의 출력제어신호를 만들어낸다. 제안한 퍼지 PD+I 제어방식의 유용성을 알아보기 위해 two-wheel balancing mobile robot에 대해 시뮬레이션과 실험의 결과를 통해, 제안한 퍼지 PD+I 제어방식이 일반적인 PID 방식보다 우수한 성능을 가지고 있음을 알 수가 있다.