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Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):C1 - C4
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Publication Year: 2012, Page(s): C2
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• Path Following of Autonomous Vehicles in the Presence of Sliding Effects

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1481 - 1492
Cited by:  Papers (16)  |  Patents (2)
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In this paper, a new controller for the path-following problem of a car-like autonomous vehicle is proposed. This controller is based on a new transformation that, for the case of roll with no slip, transfers the model to a chain form. However, in many practical cases, due to the strong effects of tire slip angles, a roll with no slip assumption is invalid. To cope with the presence of slip, a nov... View full abstract»

• Stochastic Modeling for Studies of Real-World PHEV Usage: Driving Schedule and Daily Temporal Distributions

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1493 - 1502
Cited by:  Papers (45)
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Daily driving missions provide the fundamental information required to predict the impact of the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) on the grid. In this paper, we propose a statistical modeling approach of daily driving mission sets. The approach consists of temporal distribution modeling and the synthesis of individual representative cycles. The proposed temporal distribution model can captur... View full abstract»

• Energy-Saving Automatic Train Regulation Using Dual Heuristic Programming

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1503 - 1514
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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Issues regarding environment sustainability and energy saving have been receiving much attention in the worldwide railway society. Saving energy via train regulation is cost effective and has become an issue to be considered in railway operations. Automatic train regulation (ATR) plays an important role in maintaining metro service quality; however, designing ATR is an optimal control problem with... View full abstract»

• Equivalent Circuit Derivation and Performance Analysis of a Single-Sided Linear Induction Motor Based on the Winding Function Theory

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1515 - 1525
Cited by:  Papers (21)
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A linear metro that is propelled by a single-sided linear induction motor (SLIM) has recently attracted much attention. Compared with the rotating-induction-machine drive system, the SLIM drive has advantages such as direct thrust without needing friction between the wheel and the railway track, small cross-sectional area, lack of gear box, and flexible line choice on account of the greater climbi... View full abstract»

• Optimizing for Efficiency or Battery Life in a Battery/Supercapacitor Electric Vehicle

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1526 - 1533
Cited by:  Papers (64)
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A novel energy control strategy for a battery/supercapacitor vehicle, which is designed to be tunable to achieve different goals, is described. Two possible goals for adding a pack of supercapacitors are examined for a test vehicle using lead-acid batteries: 1) improving the vehicle's efficiency and range and 2) reducing the peak currents in the battery pack to increase battery life. The benefits ... View full abstract»

• Design and Evaluation on Electric Differentials for Overactuated Electric Ground Vehicles With Four Independent In-Wheel Motors

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1534 - 1542
Cited by:  Papers (39)
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This paper discusses the design and evaluation of electric differentials (ED) for overactuated electric ground vehicles (EGVs) with four independent in-wheel motors. Three patterns of ED, namely, 1) front ED, 2) rear ED, and 3) all-wheel ED, are designed and discussed based on vehicle performances during normal cornering and circling maneuvers. Through both simulation and experimental results, the... View full abstract»

• Nonlinear Unscented $H_{infty}$ Suspension and Tracking Control of Mobile Vehicles

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1543 - 1553
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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In this paper, a new nonlinear q controller synthesis algorithm is applied to suspension and tracking control of a mobile vehicle. It is well known that the traditional H∞ controller for a linear system consists of a full-state estimate-based linear feedback control law and an H∞ state estimator. The feedback control law is synthesized by solving a... View full abstract»

• Analytical Approach for the Power Management of Blended-Mode Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1554 - 1566
Cited by:  Papers (30)
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This paper focuses on the intrinsic aspects of power management for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in HEVs (PHEV). A vehicle power distribution density function is used to describe the drive cycle characteristics. An electric driveline loss is introduced to describe the minimum system loss for a given mechanical power output, and a piecewise linear fuel consumption model is used to captu... View full abstract»

• Direct Instantaneous Force Control With Improved Efficiency for Four-Quadrant Operation of Linear Switched Reluctance Actuator in Active Suspension System

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1567 - 1576
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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A direct instantaneous force control with improved efficiency for the linear switched reluctance actuator (LSRA) is proposed in this paper. Four-quadrant operation is investigated for application in the active suspension system. Force ripple minimization is considered as the primary objective due to the direct impact on passenger ride comfort. An adaptive force distribution function based on the i... View full abstract»

• A New Iterative Doppler-Assisted Channel Estimation Joint With Parallel ICI Cancellation for High-Mobility MIMO-OFDM Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1577 - 1589
Cited by:  Papers (24)
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In this paper, we propose an iterative channel estimation and intercarrier interference (ICI) cancellation method for highly mobile users in long-term evolution (LTE) systems. The proposed scheme estimates the wireless channel by using pilot symbols, estimates of the data symbols, and Doppler spread information at the receiver. The wireless channel is expressed by weighted time-domain channel inte... View full abstract»

• Performance Analysis of Multihop Wireless Links Over Generalized- $K$ Fading Channels

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1590 - 1598
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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The performance of multihop links is studied in this contribution by both analysis and simulations when communicating over generalized-K (KG) fading channels. The performance metrics considered include symbol error rate (SER), outage probability, level crossing rate (LCR), and average outage duration (AOD). First, the expressions for both the SER and outage probability are... View full abstract»

• Robust Fast Time-Varying Multipath Fading Channel Estimation and Equalization for MIMO-OFDM Systems via a Fuzzy Method

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1599 - 1609
Cited by:  Papers (14)
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Channel estimation is an important issue for wireless communication systems. A channel estimation scheme using a Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy-based Kalman filter under the time-varying velocity of the mobile station in a multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system is proposed in this paper. The fuzzy technique is used to interpolate several linear mode... View full abstract»

• Performance Analysis of Distributed Decision Fusion Using A Multilevel Censoring Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1610 - 1619
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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Sensor-censoring schemes have been widely applied to distributed detection to achieve the goal of energy saving in limited-energy wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In the traditional censoring scheme, the sensor transmits data to the fusion center (FC) only when the reliability is beyond a specified threshold, and hereby, energy saving is achieved. To further exploit the energy-efficiency capabilit... View full abstract»

• Effects of Feedback Delay in Partial Relay Selection Over Nakagami- $m$ Fading Channels

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1620 - 1634
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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This paper investigates the effect of feedback delay on the performance of amplify-and-forward (AF) relay selection over a Nakagami-m fading environment. Spatial diversity can be improved by employing multiple relays with selection; however, this diversity gain cannot be fully realized when the feedback delay is present in the decision metric. Hence, in this paper, we quantify this detrimen... View full abstract»

• IFI and ISI Premitigation for Block-Code-Modulated Noncoherent UWB Impulse Radio: A Code Optimization Approach

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1635 - 1648
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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Codeword matching and signal aggregation (CMSA) is a recently proposed low-complexity noncoherent receiver for block-code-modulated ultrawideband impulse radio (UWB-IR) systems. As the frame/symbol duration is shortened to boost data rate, interframe interference (IFI) or intersymbol interference (ISI) occurs and degrades the detection performance of CMSA. In this paper, an effective IFI/ISI premi... View full abstract»

• On the Study of Half-Duplex Asymmetric Two-Way Relay Transmission Using an Amplify-and-Forward Relay

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1649 - 1664
Cited by:  Papers (41)
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This paper studies the information-theoretic metric of outage probability for a half-duplex asymmetric two-way amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying. Unlike current research activities, our main purpose is to examine the impact of traffic asymmetry on system outage probability. First, an exact but two-integral-form outage probability is derived over Rayleigh fading channels. To provide more insight, a... View full abstract»

• Embedded Wideband Metaresonator Antenna on a High-Impedance Ground Plane for Vehicular Applications

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1665 - 1672
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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A conformal embedded wideband metaresonator antenna is proposed for military vehicular applications. Metamaterials are artificial materials that exhibit plasmonic resonances with subwavelength sizes of metallic structures. Metaresonator antennas use metamaterial structures as radiators to reduce the size of antennas and design multiband antennas. A small-dipole antenna is placed on a high-impedanc... View full abstract»

• User Identification for Opportunistic OFDM-Based Multiuser Wireless Communications

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1673 - 1684
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Multiuser diversity can be employed in wireless communications to significantly improve system performance by scheduling the channel to the user with the best instantaneous channel-state information (CSI). Conventionally, all users' CSI must be available at the base station (BS) to achieve the benefit of multiuser diversity, thereby inducing enormous system overhead. To solve the overhead issue, w... View full abstract»

• Iterative Sampling Frequency Offset Estimation for MB-OFDM UWB Systems With Long Transmission Packet

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1685 - 1697
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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A multiband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) system, which is one of the effective modulation techniques that have been adopted for high-speed ultrawideband (UWB) systems, is very sensitive to sampling frequency offset (SFO) due to the mismatch between local oscillators at the transmitter and the receiver. In this paper, we propose an iterative SFO estimation method for a high-... View full abstract»

• Performance Analysis and Algorithm Designs for Transmit Antenna Selection in Linearly Precoded Multiuser MIMO Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1698 - 1708
Cited by:  Papers (15)
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This paper investigates transmit antenna selection for linearly precoded multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. First, in some precoded single-user MIMO systems, using all transmit antennas does not always lead to the best performance due to ill-conditioned channel matrices. This condition motivates us to investigate whether a similar result can be obtained in MU-MIMO systems.... View full abstract»

• Channel Estimation for Macrocellular OFDM Uplinks in Time-Varying Channels

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1709 - 1718
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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This paper deals with channel estimation in time-varying channels for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) uplink transmission. By modeling the uplink channel properly, the time-varying channel response can be determined by estimating the channel parameters. These unknown channel parameters are coupled with each other due to multipath propagation. By exploiting the orthogonality of th... View full abstract»

• Low-Complexity Cell Search With Fast PSS Identification in LTE

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1719 - 1729
Cited by:  Papers (26)  |  Patents (1)
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Cell search and synchronization in the Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long-Term Evolution (LTE) system is performed in each user equipment (UE) by using the primary synchronization signal (PSS) and secondary synchronization signal (SSS). The overall synchronization performance is heavily dominated by robust PSS detection, which can be achieved in the conventional noncoherent detector ... View full abstract»

• Capacity Bounds for AF Dual-hop Relaying in ${cal G}$ Fading Channels

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1730 - 1740
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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We investigate the ergodic capacity of amplify-and-forward (AF) dual-hop relaying systems in composite Nakagami-m/inverse-Gaussian fading channels. This type of fading, which is known in the literature as G fading, has recently attracted increasing research interest due to its ability to better approximate the Nakagami- m/lognormal model, compared with the Nakagami-m/ga... View full abstract»

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IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology covers land, airborne, and maritime mobile services, vehicular electrotechnology, equipment, and systems identified with the automotive industry.

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Editor-in-Chief
Nei Kato, Professor
Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS)
Tohoku University
Aramaki-Aoba 6-3-09, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, JAPAN
Email: kato@it.is.tohoku.ac.jp