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Inner Mongolia Riyue Solar Technology Ltd | Open Energy Information
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Place Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Solar Product China-based solar cell and module manufacturer in Inner Mongolia. References Inner Mongolia Riyue Solar...
Inner Mongolia Huitong Energy Investment Co Ltd | Open Energy...
Huitong Energy Investment Co Ltd Jump to: navigation, search Name Inner Mongolia Huitong Energy Investment Co Ltd Place Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Wind energy...
Inner Mongolia Lianhe Wind Power Investment | Open Energy Information
Lianhe Wind Power Investment Jump to: navigation, search Name Inner Mongolia Lianhe Wind Power Investment Place Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Wind energy Product A...
Inner Mongolia Damo Wind Power Co Ltd | Open Energy Information
Damo Wind Power Co Ltd Jump to: navigation, search Name Inner Mongolia Damo Wind Power Co Ltd Place Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Wind energy Product...
Inner Mongolia Wind Power Corporation | Open Energy Information
Corporation Jump to: navigation, search Name Inner Mongolia Wind Power Corporation Place Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Wind energy Product A company engages in...
Inner Mongolia Jiuhe Energy Technology Co Ltd Geoho Energy | Open Energy
Jiuhe Energy Technology Co Ltd Geoho Energy Jiuhe Energy Technology Co Ltd Geoho Energy Jump to: navigation, search Name Inner Mongolia Jiuhe Energy Technology Co Ltd (Geoho Energy) Place Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Zip 1700 Sector Wind energy Product Ordos-based wind turbine manufacturer. References Inner Mongolia Jiuhe Energy Technology Co Ltd (Geoho Energy)[1] LinkedIn Connections CrunchBase Profile No CrunchBase profile. Create one now! This article is a stub. You can help OpenEI by expanding it. Inner Mongolia Jiuhe Energy Technology Co Ltd (Geoho Energy) is a company located in Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China . References ↑ "[ Inner Mongolia Jiuhe Energy Technology Co Ltd (Geoho Energy)]" Retrieved from "http://en.openei.org/w/index.php?title=Inner_Mongolia_Jiuhe_Energy_Technology_Co_Ltd_Geoho_Energy&oldid=346940
Inner Mongolia Bayannao er Fuhui Wind Power Co Ltd | Open Energy
Bayannao er Fuhui Wind Power Co Ltd Bayannao er Fuhui Wind Power Co Ltd Jump to: navigation, search Name Inner Mongolia Bayannao'er Fuhui Wind Power Co Ltd Place Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Wind energy Product Wind project developer in China that has two projects in portfolio. References Inner Mongolia Bayannao'er Fuhui Wind Power Co Ltd[1] LinkedIn Connections CrunchBase Profile No CrunchBase profile. Create one now! This article is a stub. You can help OpenEI by expanding it. Inner Mongolia Bayannao'er Fuhui Wind Power Co Ltd is a company located in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China . References ↑ "[ Inner Mongolia Bayannao'er Fuhui Wind Power Co Ltd]" Retrieved from "http://en.openei.org/w/index.php?title=Inner_Mongolia_Bayannao_er_Fuhui_Wind_Power_Co_Ltd&oldid=346931
Inner Mongolia Guodian Energy Investment Co Ltd formerly Inner Mongolia
Guodian Energy Investment Co Ltd formerly Inner Mongolia Guodian Energy Investment Co Ltd formerly Inner Mongolia Energy Power Investment Co Jump to: navigation, search Name Inner Mongolia Guodian Energy Investment Co Ltd (formerly Inner Mongolia Energy Power Investment Co Place Huheaote, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Wind energy Product Hohhot-based wind project developer. Coordinates 46.64864°, 16.924471° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":46.64864,"lon":16.924471,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
CO2 Emissions - Mongolia
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Inner Mongolia North Longyuan Wind Power Co Ltd | Open Energy Information
Inner Mongolia North Longyuan Wind Power Co Ltd Inner Mongolia North Longyuan Wind Power Co Ltd Place Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Zip 10020 Sector Wind energy Product A wind farm developer in Inner Mongolia Region. Coordinates 40.82206°, 111.660561° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":40.82206,"lon":111.660561,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
NPP Grassland: Tumentsogt, Mongolia
Tumentsogt, Mongolia, 1982-1990 Tumentsogt, Mongolia, 1982-1990 Data Citation Cite this data set as follows: Togtohyn, C., and D. Ojima. 1996. NPP Grassland: Tumentsogt, Mongolia, 1982-1990. Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. Description Productivity of a steppe grassland was studied at the Tumentsogt Research Station of the Mongolian Academy of Science from 1982 to 1990. Measurements were made of peak above-ground live biomass for each year. The study site is located on the Eastern Mongolian Plains of the Tumentsogt sub-region (47.4 N 112.5 E), in Sukhbaatar administrative region. The Mongolian steppe occupies a major part of eastern Mongolia and northern China, characterized by an arid continental climate with most rain falling
Inner Mongolia Test Power Co Ltd | Open Energy Information
Co Ltd Co Ltd Jump to: navigation, search Name Inner Mongolia Test Power Co Ltd Place Huhehot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Zip 10010 Sector Wind energy Product Wulanchabu-based wind equipment testing company. It is active in wind project development in Inner Mongolia, China. Coordinates 40.82206°, 111.660561° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":40.82206,"lon":111.660561,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
Mongolia wind resource assessment project
DOE Green Energy (OSTI)
The development of detailed, regional wind-resource distributions and other pertinent wind resource characteristics (e.g., assessment maps and reliable estimates of seasonal, diurnal, and directional) is an important step in planning and accelerating the deployment of wind energy systems. This paper summarizes the approach and methods being used to conduct a wind energy resource assessment of Mongolia. The primary goals of this project are to develop a comprehensive wind energy resource atlas of Mongolia and to establish a wind measurement program in specific regions of Mongolia to identify prospective sites for wind energy projects and to help validate some of the wind resource estimates. The Mongolian wind resource atlas will include detailed, computerized wind power maps and other valuable wind resource characteristic information for the different regions of Mongolia.
Elliott, D.; Chadraa, B.; Natsagdorj, L.
Huadian Inner Mongolia Kailu Wind Power Company Limited | Open Energy
Huadian Inner Mongolia Kailu Wind Power Company Limited Huadian Inner Mongolia Kailu Wind Power Company Limited Jump to: navigation, search Name Huadian Inner Mongolia Kailu Wind Power Company Limited Place Jinan, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Wind energy Product Company engadged in the investment, construction, operation and management of wind power generation projects. Coordinates 36.65551°, 116.96701° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":36.65551,"lon":116.96701,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
Inner Mongolia Shenhua Xiehe Wind Power Investment Co Ltd | Open Energy
Inner Mongolia Shenhua Xiehe Wind Power Investment Co Ltd Inner Mongolia Shenhua Xiehe Wind Power Investment Co Ltd Place Xilinguole, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Zip 26300 Sector Wind energy Product A joint venture set up for developing wind power project. Coordinates 44.216961°, 115.628319° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":44.216961,"lon":115.628319,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
Inner Mongolia Tianlan Hengfeng Power Co Ltd | Open Energy Information
Tianlan Hengfeng Power Co Ltd Tianlan Hengfeng Power Co Ltd Jump to: navigation, search Name Inner Mongolia Tianlan Hengfeng Power Co Ltd Place Huhehaote, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Zip 10020 Sector Wind energy Product Local wind project developer in Inner Mongolia. The company plans to complete CNY 7.5bn (USD 11m) wind project investment by 2015, which will reach a 800MW installed capacity. Coordinates 40.82206°, 111.660561° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":40.82206,"lon":111.660561,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
The Nuclear Alternative: Energy Production within Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Science Conference Proceedings (OSTI)
Over ninety percent of Mongolia�s energy load is run through the Central Energy System. This primary grid provides Mongolia�s capital
Emmanouel Georgiou Liodakis
Using MODIS time series data to estimate aboveground biomass and its spatio-temporal variation in Inner Mongolia�s grassland between 2001 and 2011
It is critical to understanding grassland biomass and its dynamics to study regional carbon cycles and the sustainable use of grassland resources. In this study, we estimated aboveground biomass AGB and its spatio-temporal pattern for Inner Mongolia�s ...
Tian Gao, Bin Xu, Xiuchun Yang, Yunxiang Jin, Hailong Ma, Jinya Li, Haida Yu
My Trip to Mongolia | Department of Energy
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My Trip to Mongolia My Trip to Mongolia My Trip to Mongolia September 29, 2010 - 10:37am Addthis Deputy Secretary Poneman meets with Mongoliaâs Foreign Minister to discuss energy issues. Deputy Secretary Poneman meets with Mongolia's Foreign Minister to discuss energy issues. Daniel B. Poneman Daniel B. Poneman Deputy Secretary of Energy Last week, I traveled to Mongolia to discuss our shared energy challenges and our shared energy opportunities. The United States and Mongolia enjoy a warm friendship and deepening ties in a number of areas, including energy. The United States is committed to supporting the government and people of Mongolia as they continue to democratize. Although half a world apart, the United States and Mongolia share some common energy features: both our
power generation. I also toured some of Mongolia's energy facilities, including a thermal power plant, to see first-hand how Mongolia has met its energy needs over the...
Inner Mongolia Sansheng Wind Power | Open Energy Information
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UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services - Mongolia | Open Energy Information
- Mongolia - Mongolia Jump to: navigation, search Logo: UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services - Mongolia Name UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services - Mongolia Agency/Company /Organization United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Partner German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), Global Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP), Green Jobs Initiative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Sector Climate, Energy, Land, Water Focus Area People and Policy Topics Co-benefits assessment Country Mongolia Eastern Asia References UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services[1] Overview "UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services consist of policy advice, technical assistance and capacity building that are provided to governments in
Mongolia: Energy Resources | Open Energy Information
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Inner Mongolia Tianyuan New Energy Co Ltd | Open Energy Information
Co Ltd Place China Sector Wind energy Product Tuquan-based wind turbine blade and tower manufacturer, it is also active in wind project development in Inner Mongolia....
Browse wiki | Open Energy Information
Company engadged in the investment + , construction + , operation and management of wind power generation projects. + , Jinan + , Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region + , China +...
Mongolia-UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services | Open Energy Information
Mongolia-UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services Mongolia-UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services Jump to: navigation, search Logo: Mongolia-UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services Name Mongolia-UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services Agency/Company /Organization United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Partner German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), Global Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP), Green Jobs Initiative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Sector Climate, Energy, Land, Water Focus Area People and Policy Topics Co-benefits assessment, Low emission development planning, -LEDS Country Mongolia Eastern Asia References UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services[1] Overview "UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services consist of policy advice, technical
Deputy Secretary Poneman to Visit Mongolia and Discuss Energy Issues |
Visit Mongolia and Discuss Energy Visit Mongolia and Discuss Energy Issues Deputy Secretary Poneman to Visit Mongolia and Discuss Energy Issues September 20, 2010 - 12:00am Addthis Washington, D.C. - Following his trip to Vienna, Austria to attend the International Atomic Energy Agency's 54th General Conference, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman will travel to Mongolia from Wednesday, September 22 to Friday, September 24, 2010. While in Mongolia, Deputy Secretary Poneman will meet with government officials and members of the private sector to discuss energy issues. He will also deliver remarks about the need to build a sustainable energy future at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology. Media contact(s): (202) 586-4940 Addthis Related Articles U.S. Energy Secretary Chu to Lead Delegation to IAEA 54th Annual General
Mongolia-GTZ Development of RE Resources | Open Energy Information
RE Resources RE Resources Jump to: navigation, search Logo: Mongolia-GTZ Development of RE Resources Name Mongolia-GTZ Development of RE Resources Agency/Company /Organization GTZ Partner Ministry of Infrastructure Sector Energy Focus Area Renewable Energy Topics Market analysis, Policies/deployment programs, Background analysis Website http://www.gtz.de/en/praxis/95 Program Start 1998 Program End 2010 Country Mongolia Eastern Asia References Development of renewable energy resources in Mongolia[1] GTZ is working with Mongolia on policy advice as well as technical and commercial management skills of RE enterprises. The objective is to promote the economically efficient use of renewable energy potential in rural areas. The overriding principle determining the action taken here is as
Mongolia Renewable Energy and Rural Electricity Access Project | Open
Mongolia Renewable Energy and Rural Electricity Access Project Mongolia Renewable Energy and Rural Electricity Access Project Jump to: navigation, search Name of project Mongolia Renewable Energy and Rural Electricity Access Project Location of project Mongolia Energy Services Lighting, Cooking and water heating, Space heating, Cooling, Earning a living Year initiated 2006 Organization World Bank Website http://documents.worldbank.org Coordinates 46.862496°, 103.846656° References The World Bank[1] The objective of the Renewable Energy and Rural Electricity Access Project is to increase access to electricity and improve reliability of electricity service among the herder population and in off-grid soum centers by: (i) assisting the development of institutions and delivery mechanisms; (ii) facilitating herders' investments in Solar Home Systems (SHSs) and small
Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia by Morten Axel Pedersen (review)
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Not Quite Shamans is a welcome contribution to the literature on the occult and supernatural, shamanism, postsocialism, and Mongolia. Morten Axel Pedersen conducted his fieldwork in northern Mongolia�in Shishged Depression ...
Buyandelger, Manduhai
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Sizing Wind/Photovoltaic Hybrids for Households in Inner Mongolia
Approximately 140,000 wind turbines currently provide electricity to about one-third of the non-grid-connected households in Inner Mongolia. However, these households often suffer from a lack of power during the low-wind summer months. This report describes an analysis of hybrid wind/photovoltaic (PV) systems for such households. The sizing of the major components is based on a subjective trade-off between the cost of the system and the percent unmet load, as determined by the Hybrid 2 software in conjunction with a simplified time-series model. Actual resource data (wind speed and solar radiation) from the region are processed so as to best represent the scenarios of interest. Small wind turbines of both Chinese and U.S. manufacture are considered in the designs. The results indicate that combinations of wind and PV are more cost-effective than either one alone, and that the relative amount of PV in the design increases as the acceptable unmet load decreases and as the average wind sp eed decreases.
Barley, C. D.; Lew, D. J.; Flowers, L. T.
Residential exposure to drinking water arsenic in Inner Mongolia, China
SciTech Connect
In the Ba Men region of Inner Mongolia, China, a high prevalence of chronic arsenism has been reported in earlier studies. A survey of the arsenic contamination among wells from groundwater was conducted to better understand the occurrence of arsenic (As) in drinking water. A total of 14,866 wells (30% of all wells in the region) were analyzed for their arsenic-content. Methods used to detect arsenic were Spectrophotometric methods with DCC-Ag (detection limit, 0.5 {mu}g of As/L); Spot method (detection limit, 10 {mu}g of As/L); and air assisted Colorimetry method (detection limit, 20 {mu}g of As/L). Arsenic-concentrations ranged from below limit of detection to 1200 {mu}g of As/L. Elevated concentrations were related to well depth (10 to 29 m), the date the well was built (peaks from 1980-1990), and geographic location (near mountain range). Over 25,900 individuals utilized wells with drinking water arsenic concentrations above 20 {mu}g of As/L (14,500 above 50 {mu}g of As/L-the current China national standard in drinking water and 2198 above 300 {mu}g of As/L). The presented database of arsenic in wells of the Ba Men region provides a useful tool for planning future water explorations when combined with geological information as well as support for designing upcoming epidemiological studies on the effects of arsenic in drinking water for this region.
Ning Zhixiong [Ba Men Anti-Epidemic Station, Lin He, Inner Mongolia (China); Lobdell, Danelle T. [Epidemiology and Biomarkers Branch, Human Studies Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. EPA, Chapel Hill (United States); Kwok, Richard K. [RTI International, P.O. Box 12194, 3040 Cornwallis Rd, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194 (United States)], E-mail: email@example.com; Liu Zhiyi; Zhang Shiying; Ma Chenglong [Ba Men Anti-Epidemic Station, Lin He, Inner Mongolia (China); Riediker, Michael [Institut Universitaire Romand de Sante au Travail, Lausanne (Switzerland); Mumford, Judy L. [Epidemiology and Biomarkers Branch, Human Studies Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. EPA, Chapel Hill (United States)
Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Road Following
A description is given of the system architecture of an autonomous vehicle and its real-time adaptive vision system for road-following. The vehicle is a 10-ton armored personnel carrier modified for robotic control. A color transformation that best discriminates ... Keywords: adaptive systems, adaptive vision system, armored personnel carrier, autonomous vehicle, color transformation, computer vision, computerised navigation, computerised pattern recognition, image coordinate system, image segmentation, maximum-likelihood pixel classification, military systems, real-time, road region boundary, road vehicles, road-following, robotic vehicle, robots
D. Kuan; G. Phipps; A.-C. Hsueh
U.S. and Mongolia Sign MOU to Increase Cooperation in Preventing Nuclear
Mongolia Sign MOU to Increase Cooperation in Preventing Mongolia Sign MOU to Increase Cooperation in Preventing Nuclear Smuggling U.S. and Mongolia Sign MOU to Increase Cooperation in Preventing Nuclear Smuggling October 23, 2007 - 3:21pm Addthis WASHINGTON, DC - Today the governments of the United States and Mongolia strengthened their efforts in the fight against nuclear terrorism. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Clay Sell and Mongolia's Minister of Finance Nadmid Bayartsaikhan signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which will kick off cooperation between the two countries to prevent illicit trafficking of nuclear and other radioactive material. "This Agreement signed today solidifies the United States and Mongolia's commitment to promote our joint security and nonproliferation goals," Deputy Secretary Sell said. "This initiative builds on our ongoing
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detection equipment at several of Mongolia's border crossings and at the Chinggis Khan International Airport in Ulaanbaatar. NNSA plans to install radiation portal monitors...
Over ninety percent of Mongolia's energy load is run through the Central Energy System. This primary grid provides Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, with the power it uses to function. In the first half of 2010 the Central Energy System managed 1739.45 million kWhs, a 4.6 percent increase from 2009. If this growth rate continues, by 2015 Ulaanbaatar's three power plants will be unable to generate enough heat and electricity to meet the city's needs. Currently, plans have been proposed to rehabilitate the aging coal power plants. However, rising maintenance costs and growing emission levels make the long-term sustainability of this solution uncertain. The following paper analyzes the capital, maintenance, and decommissioning costs associated with the current rehabilitation plans and compares them with a nuclear alternative.
Liodakis, Emmanouel Georgiou [Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305 (United States); MonAme Scientific Research Center, Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)
China Tong Liao Baolong New Energy Ltd CTB | Open Energy Information
Tong Liao Baolong New Energy Ltd CTB Jump to: navigation, search Name China Tong Liao Baolong New Energy Ltd (CTB) Place Tongliao, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector...
Fenglilai Technology Development Co Ltd | Open Energy Information
Fenglilai Technology Development Co Ltd Jump to: navigation, search Name Fenglilai Technology Development Co Ltd Place Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Wind energy...
Tongliao Taihe Wind Power Limited | Open Energy Information
Tongliao Taihe Wind Power Limited Jump to: navigation, search Name Tongliao Taihe Wind Power Limited Place Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Wind energy...
Guohua Hulunbeier Wind Power | Open Energy Information
Hulunbeier Wind Power Jump to: navigation, search Name Guohua (Hulunbeier) Wind Power Place Hulunbeier, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Zip 21300 Sector Wind energy Product...
Tongliao Changxing Wind Power Co Ltd | Open Energy Information
Changxing Wind Power Co Ltd Jump to: navigation, search Name Tongliao Changxing Wind Power Co Ltd Place Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Wind energy...
Measurement of autonomous operation
While robotic systems and the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been funded through the Department Of Defense (DoD) and Industry for decades, it was not until recent years that the combination of these two technologies has made truly significant ... Keywords: C4ISR, automated decision aid (ADA), autonomous control, autonomous operations, unmanned aerial system
W. Hamel
Mongolia-GTZ Energy Efficiency within the Grid-Connected Energy Supply |
within the Grid-Connected Energy Supply within the Grid-Connected Energy Supply Jump to: navigation, search Logo: Mongolia-GTZ Energy Efficiency within the Grid-Connected Energy Supply Name Mongolia-GTZ Energy Efficiency within the Grid-Connected Energy Supply Agency/Company /Organization Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Partner German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Ministry of Fuel and Energy (MoFE) Sector Energy Topics Background analysis, Policies/deployment programs Website http://www.gtz.de/en/praxis/95 Program Start 2007 Program End 2010 Country Mongolia Eastern Asia References GTZ projects [1] GTZ is working with Mongolia on energy efficiency capacity development for institutions and the private sector. References
DOE/NREL Inner Mongolia PV/Wind Hybrid Systems Pilot Project: A Post-Installation Assessment
This report assesses the Inner Mongolia Pilot Project, which disseminates wind-solar hybrid systems to a rural and remote population.
Stroup, K. K.
Autonomous Exploration: Driven by Uncertainty
Autonomous Exploration: Driven by Uncertainty Peter Whaite and Frank P. Ferrie TR-CIM-93-17 1993-6319 Telex: 05 268510 FAX: 514 398-7348 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com #12;Autonomous Exploration: Driven
Dudek, Gregory
Autonomous data transmission apparatus
DOE Patents (OSTI)
A autonomous borehole data transmission apparatus for transmitting measurement data from measuring instruments at the downhole end of a drill string by generating pressure pulses utilizing a transducer longitudinally responsive to magnetic field pulses caused by electrical pulses corresponding to the measured downhole parameters.
Kotlyar, Oleg M. (4675 W. 3825 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84120)
A autonomous borehole data transmission apparatus is described for transmitting measurement data from measuring instruments at the downhole end of a drill string by generating pressure pulses utilizing a transducer longitudinally responsive to magnetic field pulses caused by electrical pulses corresponding to the measured downhole parameters. 4 figs.
Kotlyar, O.M.
Note on star-autonomous comonads
We develop an alternative approach to star-autonomous comonads via linearly distributive categories. It is shown that in the autonomous case the notions of star-autonomous comonad and Hopf comonad coincide.
Pastro, Craig
The current interest and future prospect of nuclear energy in Mongolia
The interest in small reactor is growing in US. The construction cost of small reactor depends on the size of the market because one way of the cost reduction will be obtained by the mass production in general. Mongolia, which is one of the potential market of small reactor, is interesting in the utilization of nuclear energy, such as district heating.
Minato, Akio [Center for Research into Innovative Nuclear Energy Systems (CRINES), Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550 (Japan)
Autonomic load-testing framework
In this paper, we present a method for performance testing of transactional systems. The methods models the system under test, finds the software and hardware bottlenecks and generate the workloads that saturate them. The framework is autonomic, the ... Keywords: autonomic system, performance models, performance testing, stress testing
Cornel Barna; Marin Litoiu; Hamoun Ghanbari
Cooperative Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
This paper describes an algorithm for distributed acoustic navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Bahr, Alexander
Autonomic and trusted computing paradigms
The emerging autonomic computing technology has been hailed by world-wide researchers and professionals in academia and industry. Besides four key capabilities, well known as self-CHOP, we propose an additional self-regulating capability to explicitly ...
Xiaolin Li; Hui Kang; Patrick Harrington; Johnson Thomas
Solar Power for Autonomous Floats
Advances in low-power instrumentation and communications now often make energy storage the limiting factor for long-term autonomous oceanographic measurements. Recent advances in photovoltaic cells, with efficiencies now close to 30%, make solar ...
Eric A. D�Asaro
Partially autonomous conceptual development of multifunctional structures
Partially autonomous conceptual development of Multifunctional Structures (MFSs) is achieved using an analogy with two mechanisms found in embryo development in biology: induction and gene transcription. The induction model is achieved autonomously ...
Yuemin Hou; Linhong Ji
Continuous observation planning for autonomous exploration
Many applications of autonomous robots depend on the robot being able to navigate in real world environments. In order to navigate or path plan, the robot often needs to consult a map of its surroundings. A truly autonomous ...
Hasegawa, Bradley R
Intelligent Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Intelligent Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Zeyn Saigol January 31, 2007 Supervisors Underwater Vehicles Classical planning systems Problem specification Markov Decision Processes 2 / 10 #12 in relaxing these planning under uncertainty Application area: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) used
Yao, Xin
The EO-1 Autonomous Science Agent
An Autonomous Science Agent is currently flying onboard the Earth Observing One Spacecraft. This software enables the spacecraft to autonomously detect and respond to science events occurring on the Earth. The package includes software systems that perform ...
Steve Chien; Rob Sherwood; Daniel Tran; Benjamin Cichy; Gregg Rabideau; Rebecca Castano; Ashley Davies; Rachel Lee; Dan Mandl; Stuart Frye; Bruce Trout; Jerry Hengemihle; Jeff D'Agostino; Seth Shulman; Stephen Ungar; Thomas Brakke; Darrell Boyer; Jim Van Gaasbeck; Ronald Greeley; Thomas Doggett; Victor Baker; James Dohm; Felipe Ip
Potential formal models for autonomic computing applications
An analysis of the potential formalism, used in the hierarchical system theory is performed, addressing the autonomic computing system design. In that manner, self management of the overall autonomic system can be achieved by influencing the local resources ... Keywords: autonomic computing systems, control theory, hierarchical system theory, optimization
Todor Stoilov; Krasimira Stoilova
Autonomous Participation in Cloud Services
A Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is a combination of multiple physical devices connected and organised by a central controlling infrastructure using a feedback-loop mechanism. In order to increase the autonomy of CPS they must be connected to rich cloud ... Keywords: autonomic computing, service science, cyber-physical systems
Josef Spillner; Christian Piechnick; Claas Wilke; Uwe Abmann; Alexander Schill
Autonomous Underwater Gliders Wood, Stephen
26 Autonomous Underwater Gliders Wood, Stephen Florida Institute of Technology United States underwater vehicles to perform ocean surveys. With these vehicles it is now possible for the scientist substances in the ocean such as chemicals from an underwater vent or toxic algae such as red tide
Wood, Stephen L.
Autonomous detection, navigation, and propulsion for satellites.
??With the increasing number of satellites and space debris in all orbits the need for individual satellites to be able to autonomously detect and determine� (more)
Badger, Stanley
Autonomous Directional Solidification (ADS), A Novel Casting ...
the enormous production costs, alternative processes attract special interest. At the Foundry-Institute of the Technical University of. Aachen, the Autonomous�...
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Autonomous Retrieval of Cloud and Aerosol Properties from ARM Micropulse Lidar Flynn, Connor Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Christy, Jason Columbia University Beus, Sherman...
This paper describes an algorithm for distributed acoustic navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). Whereas typical AUV navigation systems utilize pre-calibrated arrays of static transponders, our work seeks to create a fully mobile network ... Keywords: autonomous underwater vehicles, cooperative navigation, mobile robotics, sensor networks
Alexander Bahr; John J. Leonard; Maurice F. Fallon
Current Plans for the ARA Autonomous
Current Plans for the ARA Autonomous Renewable Power (AARP) Station 27 May, 2010 Current Plans for the ARA Autonomous Renewable Power (AARP) Station 27 May, 2010 Participants: Ken Ratzlaff, Andrew;Turbine Aerogen 6 (UK) Ampair 600 (UK) (US --Norman, OK) (Canada Sask) (South Africa) (Spain) (China
Peterson, Blake R.
Applying autonomous control in apparel manufacturing
Problems caused by manual handling of garments in the apparel industry can be improved by automated data management based on radio frequency identification technology. Autonomous control can be established on top to increase the system robustness and ... Keywords: apparel industry, autonomous control, production planning and control, smart labels, system architecture
Scholz-Reiter Bernd; Teucke Michael; Sowade Steffen; Rippel Daniel; �zsahin Mehmet-Emin; Hildebrandt Torsten
An autonomic routing framework for sensor networks
Current routing services for sensor networks are often designed for specific applications and network conditions, thus have difficulty in adapting to application and network dynamics. This paper proposes an autonomic framework to promote the adaptivity ... Keywords: Autonomic routing, Feature functions, Monitoring policies, Sensor networks
Yu He; Cauligi S. Raghavendra; Steven Berson; Robert Braden
Autonomous Control of Space Reactor Systems
Autonomous and semi-autonomous control is a key element of space reactor design in order to meet the mission requirements of safety, reliability, survivability, and life expectancy. Interrestrial nuclear power plants, human operators are avilable to perform intelligent control functions that are necessary for both normal and abnormal operational conditions.
Belle R. Upadhyaya; K. Zhao; S.R.P. Perillo; Xiaojia Xu; M.G. Na
Trajectory Design and Implementation for Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Based on Ocean Model Predictions
for Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Based on OceanAUVs) � Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Evolving ocean
APDS: Autonomous Pathogen Detection System
An early warning system to counter bioterrorism, the Autonomous Pathogen Detection System (APDS) continuously monitors the environment for the presence of biological pathogens (e.g., anthrax) and once detected, it sounds an alarm much like a smoke detector warns of a fire. Long before September 11, 2001, this system was being developed to protect domestic venues and events including performing arts centers, mass transit systems, major sporting and entertainment events, and other high profile situations in which the public is at risk of becoming a target of bioterrorist attacks. Customizing off-the-shelf components and developing new components, a multidisciplinary team developed APDS, a stand-alone system for rapid, continuous monitoring of multiple airborne biological threat agents in the environment. The completely automated APDS samples the air, prepares fluid samples in-line, and performs two orthogonal tests: immunoassay and nucleic acid detection. When compared to competing technologies, APDS is unprecedented in terms of flexibility and system performance.
Langlois, R G; Brown, S; Burris, L; Colston, B; Jones, L; Makarewicz, T; Mariella, R; Masquelier, D; McBride, M; Milanovich, F; Masarabadi, S; Venkateswaran, K; Marshall, G; Olson, D; Wolcott, D
A survey of evolutionary and embryogenic approaches to autonomic networking
The term ''autonomic networking'' refers to network-level software systems capable of self-management, according to the principles outlined by the Autonomic Computing initiative. Autonomicity is widely recognized as a crucial property to harness the ... Keywords: Artificial embryogenies, Autonomic networking, Chemical computing, Evolutionary computation, Genetic Algorithm, Genetic Programming
Daniele Miorandi; Lidia Yamamoto; Francesco De Pellegrini
Autonomous adaptive environmental assessment and feature tracking via autonomous underwater vehicles
In the underwater environment, spatiotemporally dynamic environmental conditions pose challenges to the detection and tracking of hydrographic features. A useful tool in combating these challenge is Autonomous Adaptive ...
Petillo, Stephanie Marie
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle�Based Hydrographic Sampling
An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), the U.S. Navy�s Large Diameter Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (LDUUV), was used as a stable platform for rapid, repeated, near-synoptic CTD measurements of estuarine variability in Narragansett Bay. Surveys ...
Edward R. Levine; Donald N. Connors; Richard R. Shell; Robert C. Hanson
Turbulence Measurement from an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Horizontal profiles of the microstructure of velocity and temperature were obtained with a large autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) using two piezoelectric shear probes, an FP07 thermistor, and three orthogonal accelerometers mounted on a sting ...
Edward R. Levine; Rolf G. Lueck
The Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer (ALACE)
The autonomous Lagrangian circulation explorer (ALACE) is a subsurface float that cycles vertically from a depth where it is neutrally buoyant to the surface where it is located by, and relays data to, System Argos satellites. ALACEs are intended ...
R. E. Davis; L. A. Regier; J. Dufour; D. C. Webb
Design of a minimalist autonomous robotic vehicle
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate design alternatives for the creation of a minimalist autonomous robotic vehicle, based on the Ford Escape. The work builds on prior work performed by the MIT DARPA Urban Challenge ...
Spadafora, Mark (Mark A.)
An Autonomous Doppler Sodar Wind Profiling System
An autonomous Doppler sodar wind profiling system has been designed, built, tested, and then deployed for 2 years at a remote site in Coats Land, Antarctica. The system is designed around a commercially available phased-array sodar (a Scintec ...
Philip S. Anderson; Russell S. Ladkin; Ian A. Renfrew
Autonomous Exploration and Mapping of Flooded Sinkholes
In this paper, we describe the control, navigation, and mapping methods that were developed for a hovering autonomous underwater vehicle that explored flooded cenotes in Mexico. The cenotes of Sistema Zacatón in Tamaulipas, Mexico are flooded ...
Nathaniel Fairfield; George Kantor; Dominic Jonak; David Wettergreen
Human inspiration for autonomous vehicle tactics
Tactical control is needed in environments characterized by uncertainty and continuous, dynamic change. Given the likelihood of time constraints and high risks associated with poor tactical choices, current autonomous ...
Beaton, Jonathan Scott
Autonomous thruster failure recovery for underactuated spacecraft
Thruster failures historically account for a large percentage of failures that have occurred on orbit. Therefore, autonomous thruster failure detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) is an essential component to any robust ...
Pong, Christopher Masaru
Path planning methods for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
From naval operations to ocean science missions, the importance of autonomous vehicles is increasing with the advances in underwater robotics technology. Due to the dynamic and intermittent underwater environment and the ...
Yi?it, Konuralp
Design considerations for engineering Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have been established as a viable tool for Oceanographic Sciences. Being untethered and independent, AUVs fill the gap in Ocean Exploration left by the existing manned submersible and ...
Shah, Vikrant P. (Vikrant Pankaj)
A flexible design framework for autonomous mowing
This work outlines the creation of a flexible design framework for autonomous mowing to meet changing customer needs and functionality across a spectrum of applications from residential areas to sport complexes. The thesis ...
Kraft, Justin (Justin A.)
XAUV : modular high maneuverability autonomous underwater vehicle
The design and construction of a modular test bed autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is analyzed. Although a relatively common stacked-hull design is used, the state of the art is advanced through an aggressive power ...
Walker, Daniel G. (Daniel George)
Autonomous wind power systems are economically competitive
Autonomous wind power systems, i.e. electric conversion systems utilizing the wind as the only energy source, are especially useful for isolated applications (telecommunications, measuring stations, pumps, ...) and for remote individual domestic applications (direct feed of electrical energy into household mains, space and water heating, ...) or in the farm (greenhouse heating, milk cooling, ...). The power rating of autonomous systems can range from a few 100 W to about 50 kW. Usually a storage is incorporated in the form of electric batteries or standard night storage heaters, improving considerably the ability of the system to sustain the average power and ameliorate the reliability.
Van Leuven, J.
Robust distributed planning strategies for autonomous multi-agent teams
The increased use of autonomous robotic agents, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground rovers, for complex missions has motivated the development of autonomous task allocation and planning methods that ensure ...
Ponda, Sameera S
Reconfigurable on-board vision processing for small autonomous vehicles
This paper addresses the challenge of supporting real-time vision processing on-board small autonomous vehicles. Local vision gives increased autonomous capability, but it requires substantial computing power that is difficult to provide given the severe ...
Wade S. Fife; James K. Archibald
Safe agents in space: lessons from the autonomous sciencecraft experiment
An Autonomous Science Agent is currently flying onboard the Earth Observing One Spacecraft This software enables the spacecraft to autonomously detect and respond to science events occurring on the Earth The package includes software systems that perform ...
Rob Sherwood; Steve Chien; Daniel Tran; Benjamin Cichy; Rebecca Castano; Ashley Davies; Gregg Rabideau
systems and methods for the autonomous control, automated guidance, and global coordination of moving process machinery united states patent application
Towards Autonomic Communication Mechanisms for Service Composability Management
The Autonomic Communication Forum dedicates itself to leverage innovative mechanisms in order to provide new levels of integrated autonomicity to a future self-managed networks and network elements. Current trends in networking technologies are applying ... Keywords: Autonomic Communication, Service Composability Management
Thomas Magedanz; Jos� A. Lozano; Florian Schreiner; Fabricio Gouveia; Juan M. Gonz�lez
LFT/H varying sampling control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
LFT/H varying sampling control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles E. Roche , O. Sename D. Simon: This paper deals with the robust control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) subject to communication. INTRODUCTION In this paper the H approach for LPV systems is applied to an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV
Paris-Sud XI, Université de
Optical Delineation of Benthic Habitat Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
To improve understanding and characterization of coastal regions, there has been an increasing emphasis on autonomous systems that can sample the ocean on relevant scales. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with active propulsion are especially well suited for studies of the coastal ocean because they are able to provide systematic and near-synoptic spatial observations. With this capability, science users are beginning to integrate sensor suits for a broad range of specific and often novel applications. Here, the relatively mature Remote Environmental Monitoring Units (REMUS) AUV system is configured with multi-spectral radiometers to delineate benthic habitat in Sequim Bay, WA. The vehicle was deployed in a grid pattern along 5 km of coastline in depths from 30 to less than 2 meters. Similar to satellite and/or aerial remote sensing, the bandwidth ratios from the downward looking radiance sensor and upward looking irradiance sensor were used to identify beds of eelgrass on sub-meter scales. Strong correlations were found between the optical reflectance signals and the geo-referenced in situ data collected with underwater video within the grid. Results demonstrate the ability of AUVs to map littoral habitats at high resolution and highlight the overall utility of the REMUS vehicle for nearshore oceanography.
Moline, Mark A.; Woodruff, Dana L.; Evans, Nathan R.
Efficient autonomous signature exchange on ubiquitous networks
Fair signature exchange in emerging ubiquitous commerce (u-commerce) poses new security challenges. In particular, its operations are highly distributed and autonomous, and typically run on much open, dynamic and resource-diversified ubiquitous networks. ... Keywords: Communication protocol, Fair exchange, Signature, Ubiquitous computing, Verifiable encryption
Q. Shi; N. Zhang; D. Llewellyn-Jones
Towards Palm-Size Autonomous Helicopters
muFly EU project started in 2006 with the idea to build an autonomous micro helicopter, comparable in size and weight to a small bird. Several scientific and technological objectives were identified. This spanned from system-level integration, high efficiency ... Keywords: Graph based SLAM, Micro actuators, Micro helicopter, Multi-directional triangulation
Samir Bouabdallah; Christian Bermes; Slawomir Grzonka; Christiane Gimkiewicz; Alain Brenzikofer; Robert Hahn; Dario Schafroth; Giorgio Grisetti; Wolfram Burgard; Roland Siegwart
Autonomous behaviors for interactive vehicle animations
We present a method for synthesizing animations of autonomous space, water, and land-based vehicles in games or other interactive simulations. Controlling the motion of such vehicles to achieve a desirable behavior is difficult due to the constraints ... Keywords: online search, path planning, real-time animation, steering behaviors, vehicle motion
Jared Go; Thuc D. Vu; James J. Kuffner
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of producing some useful behaviour for controlling a robotic system. We can configure it to emulate passive by Singing Robots 126 Eduardo R. Miranda and Etienne Drouet Autonomous Navigation of a Flying Vehicle Robots: the Mechanical Control Layer 230 Sandor M. Veres Online Backpropagation Learning for a Human
Witkowski, Mark
Towards autonomous energy-wise RObjects
In this article, the RObject concept is first introduced. This is followed by a survey of applicable energy scavenging technologies. Energy is a key issue for the large scale deployment of robotics in daily life, as recharging the batteries places a ... Keywords: autonomous RObjects, energy scavenging, power awareness, robotic vacuum cleaner
Florian Vaussard; Michael Bonani; Philippe R�tornaz; Alcherio Martinoli; Francesco Mondada
Autonomic fault mitigation in embedded systems
Autonomy, particularly from a maintenance and fault-management perspective, is an increasingly desirable feature in embedded (and non-embedded) computer systems. The driving factors are several-including increasing pervasiveness of computer systems, ... Keywords: Autonomic computing, Embedded systems, Fault mitigation, Fault tolerance, Hierarchical concurrent finite-state machines, Model-based design
Sandeep Neema; Ted Bapty; Shweta Shetty; Steven Nordstrom
Autonomous robotic weed control systems: A review
Autonomous robotic weed control systems hold promise toward the automation of one of agriculture's few remaining unmechanized and drudging tasks, hand weed control. Robotic technology may also provide a means of reducing agriculture's current dependency ... Keywords: Geospatial technology, Machine vision, Pest management, Precision agriculture, Robot, Weed recognition
D. C. Slaughter; D. K. Giles; D. Downey
An Autonomous Ocean Turbulence Measurement Platform
The use of a small autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) as a platform for making in situ flow measurements in the ocean environment is described. Two high-wavenumber shear probes and a dynamic Pitot tube, housed in a pressure vessel mounted on the ...
Manhar R. Dhanak; Ken Holappa
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Saihanba Wind Power Co Ltd Saihanba Wind Power Co Ltd Jump to: navigation, search Name Datang Chifeng Saihanba Wind Power Co Ltd Place Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Zip 24000 Sector Wind energy Product This subsidiary of China Datang Corporation develops and owns several wind projects in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. References Datang Chifeng Saihanba Wind Power Co Ltd[1] LinkedIn Connections CrunchBase Profile No CrunchBase profile. Create one now! This article is a stub. You can help OpenEI by expanding it. Datang Chifeng Saihanba Wind Power Co Ltd is a company located in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China . References ↑ "Datang Chifeng Saihanba Wind Power Co Ltd" Retrieved from "http://en.openei.org/w/index.php?title=Datang_Chifeng_Saihanba_Wind_Power_Co_Ltd&oldid=344087
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Autonomous microexplosives subsurface tracing system final report.
The objective of the autonomous micro-explosive subsurface tracing system is to image the location and geometry of hydraulically induced fractures in subsurface petroleum reservoirs. This system is based on the insertion of a swarm of autonomous micro-explosive packages during the fracturing process, with subsequent triggering of the energetic material to create an array of micro-seismic sources that can be detected and analyzed using existing seismic receiver arrays and analysis software. The project included investigations of energetic mixtures, triggering systems, package size and shape, and seismic output. Given the current absence of any technology capable of such high resolution mapping of subsurface structures, this technology has the potential for major impact on petroleum industry, which spends approximately $1 billion dollar per year on hydraulic fracturing operations in the United States alone.
Engler, Bruce Phillip; Nogan, John; Melof, Brian Matthew; Uhl, James Eugene; Dulleck, George R., Jr.; Ingram, Brian V.; Grubelich, Mark Charles; Rivas, Raul R.; Cooper, Paul W.; Warpinski, Norman Raymond; Kravitz, Stanley H.
ASGrid: autonomic management of hybrid sensor grid systems and applications
In this paper, we propose an autonomic management framework (ASGrid) to address the requirements of emerging large-scale applications in hybrid grid and sensor network systems. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first who proposed the ... Keywords: P2P, WSNs, autonomic computing, autonomic management, autonomic sensor grid, data aggregation, grid computing, hybrid distributed systems, key management, network security, peer computing, peer-to-, self-configuration, self-optimisation, self-protection, task scheduling, trust management, wireless sensor networks
Xiaolin Li; Xinxin Liu; Han Zhao; Huanyu Zhao; Nanyan Jiang; Manish Parashar
A viable multivariable adaptive controller with application to autonomous helicopters
Autonomous helicopters carry out missions in inaccessible hazardous environments. Their performance capability in speed, maneuverability and trajectory tracking must be comparable, if not superior, to manned vehicles. ...
Krupadanam, Ashish Samuel, 1974-
Autonomous Alignment Process for Laser Fusion Systems (AAPLF ...
Autonomous Alignment Process for Laser Fusion Systems (AAPLF) � Team Members Front Row (left to right): Roger Lowe-Webb, Robert Carey, Ben Horowitz, Mark Bowers,
Autonomous uninterruptible power-supply apparatus
This invention relates broadly to a power supply apparatus, and in particular to an autonomous uninterruptible power supply apparatus. The purpose of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is to protect critical electrical loads from transient or steady-stage outages or disturbances in the primary power source. The basic configuration of a typical, commercially available, uninterruptible power supply is comprised at a minimum of a standby battery and a battery charger and may also include an inverter for AC applications. Systems of this type can be found in most computer installations and laboratory systems that cannot tolerate even momentary disturbances of input power. This document describes an autonomous uninterruptible power-supply apparatus utilizing a digital-processor unit as a control and monitor unit to measure and control input and output parameters in the power supply. A battery charger is utilized to maintain the voltage and current levels with the backup battery supply source which powers an inverter unit that converts the DC power to an AC output.
Masson, J.H.
Asia-Pacific Regional Climate Change Adaptation Assessment | Open Energy
Asia-Pacific Regional Climate Change Adaptation Assessment Asia-Pacific Regional Climate Change Adaptation Assessment Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary Name: Asia-Pacific Regional Climate Change Adaptation Assessment Agency/Company /Organization: U.S. Agency for International Development Sector: Energy Topics: Adaptation, Co-benefits assessment, Policies/deployment programs Resource Type: Publications Website: www.usaid.gov/rdma/documents/RDMA_Asia-Pacific_Climate_Change_Adaptati Country: China, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Laos, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Vanuatu UN Region: Central Asia, Eastern Asia, South-Eastern Asia References: Asia-Pacific Adaptation Assessment[1]
A MOOS MODULE FOR MONITORING ENERGY USAGE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES Anthony Kanago, Kevin Roos, James--Tracking the energy usage of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and making accurate data available provides especially effectively in energy-aware systems, allowing inspection vehicles (which typically travel farther
Idaho, University of
Design and Control of Autonomous Underwater Robots: A Survey
During the 1990s, numerous worldwide research and development activities have occurred in underwater robotics, especially in the area of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). As the ocean attracts great attention on environmental issues and resources ... Keywords: autonomous underwater vehicles, underwater navigation and control, underwater robots
J. Yuh
Application of fuzzy logic for autonomous bay parking of automobiles
In this paper, we investigate the control problem of autonomous bay parking system. We choose a referenced parking lot and define a suitable parking spot based on some measurements at various places. A kinetic model is set up for the convenience of analysis ... Keywords: Fuzzy logic, autonomous vehicle control, bay parking, kinetic model, simulation
Zhao-Jian Wang; Jian-Wei Zhang; Ying-Ling Huang; Hui Zhang; Aryan Saadat Mehr
Toward Reliable Off Road Autonomous Vehicles Operating in Challenging Environments
The DARPA PerceptOR program has implemented a rigorous evaluative test program which fosters the development of field relevant outdoor mobile robots. Autonomous ground vehicles were deployed on diverse test courses throughout the USA and quantitatively ... Keywords: UAV, UGV, autonomous mobility, ladar, mobile robot, motion planning, obstacle avoidance, stereo, unmanned ground vehicle
Alonzo Kelly; Anthony Stentz; Omead Amidi; Mike Bode; David Bradley; Antonio Diaz-Calderon; Mike Happold; Herman Herman; Robert Mandelbaum; Tom Pilarski; Pete Rander; Scott Thayer; Nick Vallidis; Randy Warner
Seismic Regionalization In Northeast Russia
In an effort to characterize seismicity in support of nuclear explosion monitoring for the continental regions of northeast Russia, we have been analyzing information obtained from regional seismic network operators. Our goal is to merge catalog, bulletin, waveform, and other ground truth data from several regional networks into a comprehensive data set that we will use for various seismic research projects. To date we have compiled a bulletin from published and unpublished event data of about 200,000 events and over 150,000 arrival times. We have also determined that the Russian regional network catalogs are contaminated with mining-explosion events. Hence, one of our primary efforts is to identify mining events when possible and move them into a separate bulletin from the natural earthquakes. We have extended our preliminary analysis of explosion contamination of Russian seismicity catalogs using temporal analysis into the Irkutsk and Chita districts and the Buryat Republic. Based on analysis of epicenters and origin times reported in Material po Seismichnost' Sibiri for 1970 -- 1993, it is likely that considerable explosion contamination occurs in the gold (Bodaibo, northern Irkutsk Region, and in the Chita region), mica (Vitim, northern Irkutsk Region), and other mining areas (Bushulei, Nerchinsk, and Petrovsk in the Buryat and Chita areas). Explosion contamination is also observed in northernmost Mongolia in the mining and industrial district near Darkhan. Explosions associated with the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railroad are likely, as was observed in the Amur district; however, the amount of natural seismicity dominates the activity and makes it impossible to resolve the railroad separately. In conjunction with the Magadan Seismic Network operators,...
Kevin Mackey Kazuya; Kazuya Fujita; Lee K. Steck; Hans E. Hartse
Autonomous Rule Creation for Intrusion Detection
Many computational intelligence techniques for anomaly based network intrusion detection can be found in literature. Translating a newly discovered intrusion recognition criteria into a distributable rule can be a human intensive effort. This paper explores a multi-modal genetic algorithm solution for autonomous rule creation. This algorithm focuses on the process of creating rules once an intrusion has been identified, rather than the evolution of rules to provide a solution for intrusion detection. The algorithm was demonstrated on anomalous ICMP network packets (input) and Snort rules (output of the algorithm). Output rules were sorted according to a fitness value and any duplicates were removed. The experimental results on ten test cases demonstrated a 100 percent rule alert rate. Out of 33,804 test packets 3 produced false positives. Each test case produced a minimum of three rule variations that could be used as candidates for a production system.
Todd Vollmer; Jim Alves-Foss; Milos Manic
An autonomous GP-based system for regression and classification problems
The aim of this research is to develop an autonomous system for solving data analysis problems. The system, called Genetic Programming-Autonomous Solver (GP-AS) contains most of the features required by an autonomous software: it decides if it knows ... Keywords: 01.30. -y, Adaptive strategies, Autonomous systems, Classification, Genetic Programming, Symbolic regression
Mihai Oltean; Laura Dio?an
Modeling and control of a biorobotic autonomous underwater vehicle
Current research into Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) has included work on biologically inspired propulsion mechanisms, for instance flapping foils. The first aim of this thesis is to develop an accurate non-linear ...
Booth, William Duncan Lewis
Probabilistic lane estimation for autonomous driving using basis curves
Lane estimation for autonomous driving can be formulated as a curve estimation problem, where local sensor data provides partial and noisy observations of spatial curves forming lane boundaries. The number of lanes to ...
Huang, Albert S.
Adaptation Strategies in Policy-Driven Autonomic Management
Policies have been proposed as a means to express required or desired behavior of systems and applications. Policies can be used within the autonomic management elements of the system to provide action directives to adjust application or system tuning ...
Raphael M. Bahati; Michael A. Bauer; Elvis M. Vieira
Towards Natural Head Movement of Autonomous Speaker Agent
Autonomous Speaker Agent (ASA) is a graphically embodied animated agent capable of reading plain English text and rendering it in a form of speech, accompanied by appropriate, natural-looking facial gestures [1]. This paper is focused on improving ASA's ...
Marko Brkic; Karlo Smid; Tomislav Pejsa; Igor S. Pandzic
Power system islands, autonomous microgrids and relevant instrumentation
Unplanned power system islanding is usually seen as a major risky operating condition and specific countermeasures are applied in order to avoid it. However the capability of voluntary disconnection from the external grid and autonomous operation is ...
A. Borghetti; L. Peretto
Towards a standards-based autonomic context management system
Pervasive computing applications must be sufficiently autonomous to adapt their behaviour to changes in computing resources and user requirements. This capability is known as context-awareness. In some cases, context-aware applications must be implemented ...
Jadwiga Indulska; Karen Henricksen; Peizhao Hu
A real-time adaptive control of autonomic computing environments
Autonomic computing has received a great deal of attention from the research community in recent years. Many techniques have been proposed to monitor, analyze, and change the system under observation, but less attention has been paid to adapting the ...
Bogdan Solomon; Dan Ionescu; Marin Litoiu; Mircea Mihaescu
Robust hybrid control for autonomous vehicle motion planning
This dissertation focuses on the problem of motion planning for agile autonomous vehicles. In realistic situations, the motion planning problem must be solved in real-time, in a dynamic and uncertain environment. The ...
Frazzoli, Emilio, 1970-
Progressively communicating rich telemetry from autonomous underwater vehicles via relays
As analysis of imagery and environmental data plays a greater role in mission construction and execution, there is an increasing need for autonomous marine vehicles to transmit this data to the surface. Without access to ...
Murphy, Christopher Alden
Technical benefits and cultural barriers of networked Autonomous Undersea Vehicles
The research presented in this thesis examines the technical benefits to using a collaborative network of Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (AUVs) in place of individual vehicles. Benefits could be achieved in the areas of ...
Wineman, Patrick L
High fidelity sensor simulations for the virtual autonomous navigation environment
The Virtual Autonomous Navigation Environment (VANE) is a high-fidelity simulation environment for ground robotics. Physicsbased realism is the primary goal of the VANE. The VANE simulation incorporates realistic lighting, vehicle-terrain interaction, ...
Chris Goodin; Phillip J. Durst; Burhman Gates; Chris Cummins; Jody Priddy
Autonomous Aerosondes for Economical Atmospheric Soundings Anywhere on the Globe
Considerable interest in the use of autonomous aircraft for atmospheric measurements in remote and hazardous areas world-wide has arisen over recent years. Their application in tropical cyclone reconnaissance is under study by the World ...
Greg J. Holland; Tad McGeer; Harold Youngren
Evaluation of novel autonomous self-healing polymer composite
Autonomous self-healing materials offer a novel ability to self-repair damage caused by fatigue or fracture. Applications in many industries, from medical to aerospace, suffer from formation of microcracks, which often ...
Tsinberg, Anait
An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for the Study of Small Lakes
A small autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) was designed and built to carry a wide variety of oceanographic sensors in the relatively benign lacustrine environment. PURLII navigates along preprogrammed paths for up to 3 h using compass, depth, ...
Bernard Laval; John S. Bird; Peter D. Helland
Profiling ALACEs and Other Advances in Autonomous Subsurface Floats
Over the past decade more than 1200 autonomous floats have been deployed worldwide. In addition to velocity as marked by lateral movement, many of these floats measured quantities like profiles of temperature and salinity, temperature ...
R. E. Davis; J. T. Sherman; J. Dufour
Path planning of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for adaptive sampling
This thesis develops new methods for path planning of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for adaptive sampling. The problem is approached in an optimization framework and two methods are developed to solve it based on Mixed ...
Yilmaz, Namik Kemal, 1975-
Propeller design and analysis for a small, autonomous UAV
An experimental study was performed to design and analyze a "pusher" propeller for use by a small, expendable, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) whose mission was to descend from 30,000 feet to sea level at an ...
Tracy, Ian P
Autonomous underwater vehicle navigation and mapping in dynamic, unstructured environments
This thesis presents a system for automatically building 3-D optical and bathymetric maps of underwater terrain using autonomous robots. The maps that are built improve the state of the art in resolution by an order of ...
Kunz, Clayton Gregory
Lane estimation for autonomous vehicles using vision and LIDAR
Autonomous ground vehicles, or self-driving cars, require a high level of situational awareness in order to operate safely and eciently in real-world conditions. A system able to quickly and reliably estimate the location ...
Huang, Albert Shuyu
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Unmanned and autonomous systems mission based test and evaluation
We propose to apply principles from the Army Evaluation Center's Mission Based Test and Evaluation (MBT&E) to Unmanned and Autonomous Systems (UAS) Test and Evaluation (T&E) in order to conduct rigorous, real-world testing based on anticipated military ... Keywords: capability based evaluation, measures of effectiveness, measures of performance, mission and means framework, mission based test and evaluation, simulation based test and evaluation, unmanned and autonomous system test and evaluation
Philipp A. Djang; Frank Lopez
Autonomous mobile robot for radiologic surveys
An apparatus is described for conducting radiologic surveys. The apparatus comprises in the main a robot capable of following a preprogrammed path through an area, a radiation monitor adapted to receive input from a radiation detector assembly, ultrasonic transducers for navigation and collision avoidance, and an on-board computer system including an integrator for interfacing the radiation monitor and the robot. Front and rear bumpers are attached to the robot by bumper mounts. The robot may be equipped with memory boards for the collection and storage of radiation survey information. The on-board computer system is connected to a remote host computer via a UHF radio link. The apparatus is powered by a rechargeable 24-volt DC battery, and is stored at a docking station when not in use and/or for recharging. A remote host computer contains a stored database defining paths between points in the area where the robot is to operate, including but not limited to the locations of walls, doors, stationary furniture and equipment, and sonic markers if used. When a program consisting of a series of paths is downloaded to the on-board computer system, the robot conducts a floor survey autonomously at any preselected rate. When the radiation monitor detects contamination, the robot resurveys the area at reduced speed and resumes its preprogrammed path if the contamination is not confirmed. If the contamination is confirmed, the robot stops and sounds an alarm. 5 figures.
Dudar, A.M.; Wagner, D.G.; Teese, G.D.
An apparatus for conducting radiologic surveys. The apparatus comprises in the main a robot capable of following a preprogrammed path through an area, a radiation monitor adapted to receive input from a radiation detector assembly, ultrasonic transducers for navigation and collision avoidance, and an on-board computer system including an integrator for interfacing the radiation monitor and the robot. Front and rear bumpers are attached to the robot by bumper mounts. The robot may be equipped with memory boards for the collection and storage of radiation survey information. The on-board computer system is connected to a remote host computer via a UHF radio link. The apparatus is powered by a rechargeable 24-volt DC battery, and is stored at a docking station when not in use and/or for recharging. A remote host computer contains a stored database defining paths between points in the area where the robot is to operate, including but not limited to the locations of walls, doors, stationary furniture and equipment, and sonic markers if used. When a program consisting of a series of paths is downloaded to the on-board computer system, the robot conducts a floor survey autonomously at any preselected rate. When the radiation monitor detects contamination, the robot resurveys the area at reduced speed and resumes its preprogrammed path if the contamination is not confirmed. If the contamination is confirmed, the robot stops and sounds an alarm.
Dudar, Aed M. (Augusta, GA); Wagner, David G. (Augusta, GA); Teese, Gregory D. (Aiken, SC)
The Autonomous Pathogen Detection System (APDS)
Shaped like a mailbox on wheels, it's been called a bioterrorism ''smoke detector.'' It can be found in transportation hubs such as airports and subways, and it may be coming to a location near you. Formally known as the Autonomous Pathogen Detection System, or APDS, this latest tool in the war on bioterrorism was developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to continuously sniff the air for airborne pathogens and toxins such as anthrax or plague. The APDS is the modern day equivalent of the canaries miners took underground with them to test for deadly carbon dioxide gas. But this canary can test for numerous bacteria, viruses, and toxins simultaneously, report results every hour, and confirm positive samples and guard against false positive results by using two different tests. The fully automated system collects and prepares air samples around the clock, does the analysis, and interprets the results. It requires no servicing or human intervention for an entire week. Unlike its feathered counterpart, when an APDS unit encounters something deadly in the air, that's when it begins singing, quietly. The APDS unit transmits a silent alert and sends detailed data to public health authorities, who can order evacuation and begin treatment of anyone exposed to toxic or biological agents. It is the latest in a series of biodefense detectors developed at DOE/NNSA national laboratories. The manual predecessor to APDS, called BASIS (for Biological Aerosol Sentry and Information System), was developed jointly by Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories. That system was modified to become BioWatch, the Department of Homeland Security's biological urban monitoring program. A related laboratory instrument, the Handheld Advanced Nucleic Acid Analyzer (HANAA), was first tested successfully at LLNL in September 1997. Successful partnering with private industry has been a key factor in the rapid advancement and deployment of biodefense instruments such as these. The APDS technology has been licensed and is currently undergoing commercialization.
Morris, J; Dzenitis, J
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Autonomous Units to Model Interacting Sequential and Parallel Processes
In this paper, we introduce the notion of a community of autonomous units as a rulebased and graph-transformational device to model processes that run interactively but independently of each other in a common environment. The main components of an autonomous unit are a set of rules, a control condition, and a goal. Every autonomous unit transforms graphs by applying its rules so that the control condition is satisfied. If the goal is reached the resulting transformation process is successful. A community contains a set of autonomous units, an initial environment specification, and an overall goal. In every transformation process of a community the autonomous units interact via their common environment. As an example, the game Ludo is modeled as a community of selfcontrolled players who interact on a common board. The emphasis of the presented approach is laid on the study of the formal semantics of a community as a whole and of each of its member units separately. In particular, a sequential as well as a parallel semantics is introduced, and communities with parallel semantics are compared with Petri nets, cellular automata, and multiagent systems.
Karsten H�lscher; Hans-J�rg Kreowski; Sabine Kuske
Drinking water arsenic exposure and blood pressure in healthy women of reproductive age in Inner Mongolia, China
The extremely high exposure levels evaluated in prior investigations relating elevated levels of drinking water arsenic and hypertension prevalence make extrapolation to potential vascular effects at lower exposure levels very difficult. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 8790 women who had recently been pregnant in an area of Inner Mongolia, China known to have a gradient of drinking water arsenic exposure. This study observed increased systolic blood pressure levels with increasing drinking water arsenic, at lower exposure levels than previously reported in the literature. As compared to the referent category (below limit of detection to 20 {mu}g of As/L), the overall population mean systolic blood pressure rose 1.29 mm Hg (95% CI 0.82, 1.75), 1.28 mm Hg (95% CI 0.49, 2.07), and 2.22 mm Hg (95% CI 1.46, 2.97) as drinking water arsenic concentration increased from 21 to 50, 51 to 100, and > 100 {mu}g of As/L, respectively. Controlling for age and body weight (n = 3260), the population mean systolic blood pressure rose 1.88 mm Hg (95% CI 1.03, 2.73), 3.90 mm Hg (95% CI 2.52, 5.29), and 6.83 mm Hg (95% CI 5.39, 8.27) as drinking water arsenic concentration increased, respectively. For diastolic blood pressure effect, while statistically significant, was not as pronounced as systolic blood pressure. Mean diastolic blood pressure rose 0.78 mm Hg (95% CI 0.39, 1.16), 1.57 mm Hg (95% CI 0.91, 2.22) and 1.32 mm Hg (95% CI 0.70, 1.95), respectively, for the overall population and rose 2.11 mm Hg (95% CI 1.38, 2.84), 2.74 mm Hg (95% CI 1.55, 3.93), and 3.08 mm Hg (95% CI 1.84, 4.31), respectively, for the adjusted population (n = 3260) at drinking water arsenic concentrations of 21 to 50, 51 to 100, and > 100 {mu}g of As/L. If our study results are confirmed in other populations, the potential burden of cardiovascular disease attributable to drinking water arsenic is significant.
Kwok, Richard K. [RTI International, PO Box 12194, 3040 Cornwallis Rd., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194 (United States)], E-mail: email@example.com; Mendola, Pauline [Epidemiology and Biomarkers Branch, Human Studies Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, MD-58, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 (United States); Liu Zhiyi [Ba Men Anti-Epidemic Station, Lin He, Inner Mongolia (China); Savitz, David A. [Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1057, New York, NY 10029 (United States); Heiss, Gerardo [Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (United States); Ling Heling [Ba Men Anti-Epidemic Station, Lin He, Inner Mongolia (China); Xia Yajuan [Inner Mongolia Center for Endemic Disease Control and Research, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia (China); Lobdell, Danelle [Epidemiology and Biomarkers Branch, Human Studies Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, MD-58, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 (United States); Zeng Donglin [Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (United States); Thorp, John M. [Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (United States); Creason, John P.; Mumford, Judy L. [Epidemiology and Biomarkers Branch, Human Studies Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, MD-58, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 (United States)
State Estimation Strategies for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Fish Tracking Applications
I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. Jun Zhou ii As the largest unexplored area on earth, the underwater world has unlimited attraction to marine scientists. Due to the complexity of the underwater environment and the limitations of human divers, underwater exploration has been facilitated by the use of submarines, Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). In recent years, use of autonomous control systems being integrated with visual sensors has increased substantially, especially in marine applications involving guidance of AUVs. In this work, autonomous fish-tracking via AUV with vision servoing control system is studied with the purpose of assisting marine biologists in gathering detailed
Jun Zhou
Design and control of autonomous crop tracking robotic weeder : GreenWeeder.
??This thesis reports the design and control of the ?GreenWeeder?, a non-herbicidal autonomous weeding robot, in order to autonomously track crop rows for weeding through� (more)
Dang, Kim Son
Autonomous gathering of livestock using a multi-functional sensor network platform
In this paper we develop algorithms and hardware for the autonomous gathering of cattle. We present a comparison of three different autonomous gathering algorithms that employ sound and/or electric stimuli to guide the ...
Doniec, Marek Wojciech
Verification of a six-degree of freedom simulation model for the REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle
mproving the performance of modular, low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in such applications as long-range oceanographic survey, autonomous docking, and shallow-water mine countermeasures requires improving the ...
Prestero, Timothy (Timothy Jason), 1970-
WAMbot: Team MAGICian's entry to the Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge 2010
This article describes �WAMbot,'' an autonomous unmanned ground vehicle and the Team MAGICian solution to the 2010 Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC). The system architecture, hardware, sensing, planning, navigation, ...
Adrian Boeing; Mark Boulton; Thomas Br�unl; Brian Frisch; Sam Lopes; Aidan Morgan; Frank Ophelders; Sushil Pangeni; Robert Reid; Kevin Vinsen; Nicolas Garel; Chang Su Lee; Martin Masek; Anthony Attwood; Michael Fazio; Adam Gandossi
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 1
AAMAS is the premier scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as a merger of three highly respected individual conferences: the International Conference on Autonomous ...
Lin Padgham; David Parkes
Autonomous farming: modelling and control of agricultural machinery in a unified framework
There are significant challenges faced by the farming industry, including a reduced labour workforce and a corporate style of farming. Such factors demand an increase in farming efficiency and productivity. This paper describes future autonomous farming ... Keywords: agricultural machinery, agricultural robotics, agronomy data, articulated farm vehicles, autonomous farming, autonomous robots, autonomous vehicles, intelligent systems, precision agriculture, precision farming, tracking control, trajectory tracking, uncertainty, vehicle control, vehicle modelling
Ray Eaton; Jay Katupitiya; Kheng Wah Siew; Blair Howarth
A Small Secure Transportable Autonomous Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor for Deployment at Remote Sites
This presentation discusses a small secure transportable autonomous lead-cooled fast reactor for deployment at remote sites.
Sienicki, J .J.; Smith, M.A.; Mosseytsev, A.V.; Yang, W.S.; Wade, D.C.
Supercritical CO2Brayton Cycle Control Strategy for Autonomous Liquid Metal-Cooled Reactors
This presentation discusses a supercritical carbon dioxide brayton cycle control strategy for autonomous liquid metal-cooled reactors.
Moisseytsev, A.; Sienicki, J.J.
An Architecture of MicroGrid Based on Role on Autonomous Decentralized System
This paper presents a conceptual architecture for Micro Grid. The approach utilizes the strategy of control and coordination from Role Autonomous Decentralized System (RoADS) for autonomous operation of a Micro Grid. This architecture aims to optimize ... Keywords: MicroGrid, Role, Role Autonomous Decentralized System (RoADS), Role Field, Data Field Dual-driven Architecture (RDDA), Coordination, �EMS
Peng Li; Tianhu Ma; Yongdong Tan
Aalborg Universitet A Distributed Control Strategy for Coordination of an Autonomous LVDC Microgrid
Aalborg Universitet A Distributed Control Strategy for Coordination of an Autonomous LVDC Microgrid Strategy for Coordination of an Autonomous LVDC Microgrid Based on Power-Line Signalling. I E E E Control Strategy for Coordination of an Autonomous LVDC Microgrid Based on Power-Line Signalling Tomislav
Vasquez, Juan Carlos
An Autonomic Service Architecture for Self-Managing Grid Applications
architecture, adaptive data streaming. I. INTRODUCTION he goal of the Grid concept is to enable a new and geographically distributed elements and resources; (2) Dynamism: Grid environments are continuously changingAn Autonomic Service Architecture for Self- Managing Grid Applications Hua Liu, Viraj Bhat, Manish
Parashar, Manish
Intending to err: the ethical challenge of lethal, autonomous systems
Current precursors in the development of lethal, autonomous systems (LAS) point to the use of biometric devices for assessing, identifying, and verifying targets. The inclusion of biometric devices entails the use of a probabilistic matching program ... Keywords: Biometrics, Lethal autonomy, Right intention, Tolerance for error
Mark S. Swiatek
Wind field estimation for autonomous dynamic soaring Jack W. Langelaan
Wind field estimation for autonomous dynamic soaring Jack W. Langelaan Aerospace Engineering, Penn for distributed parameter estimation of a previously unknown wind field is described. The application is dynamic parameterization of the wind field is used, allowing implementation of a linear Kalman filter for parameter
Spletzer, John R.
Autonomous recovery from hostile code insertion using distributed reflection
In a hostile environment, an autonomous cognitive system requires a reflective capability to detect problems in its own operation and recover from them without external intervention. We present an architecture in which reflection is distributed so that ... Keywords: Anomaly, Immune systems, Meta-level, Quality-monitoring, Reflection, Self-repair
Catriona M Kennedy; Aaron Sloman
Managing Risk in Disaster Scenarios with Autonomous Robots
of damage. · The initial response to the disaster is limited to only those local rescue assets that have had some limited use in disaster response, most notably the responses led by the Center for Robot1 Managing Risk in Disaster Scenarios with Autonomous Robots Daniel P. Stormont and Vicki H. Allan
Allan, Vicki H.
Building ``Fungus Eaters'': Design Principles of Autonomous Agents
term, and ultimate goals. In the short term it is the discovery and exploration ``... of architectures approach (Maes, 1992). * Figure 1: A ``Fungus Eater'' ingesting fungus on a distant planet. It has, ``Fungus Eaters'' are complete autonomous creatures, sent to a distant planet for collecting uranium ore
Harvey, Inman
Negotiation among autonomous computational agents: principles, analysis and challenges
Automated negotiation systems with software agents representing individuals or organizations and capable of reaching agreements through negotiation are becoming increasingly important and pervasive. Examples, to mention a few, include the industrial ... Keywords: Automated negotiation, Autonomous agents, Bargaining, Impasse, Multi-agent systems, Negotiation framework, Negotiation systems, Pre-negotiation, Renegotiation
Fernando Lopes; Michael Wooldridge; A. Q. Novais
Self-Localisation in the �Senario� Autonomous Wheelchair
This paper introduces the Focused Stochastic Diffusion Network as a novel method of self-localisation for an autonomous wheelchair in a complex, busy environment. The space of possible positions is explored in parallel by a set of cells searching ... Keywords: localisation, neural networks, stochastic diffusion
P. D. Beattie; J. M. Bishop
Towards autonomic application-sensitive partitioning for SAMR applications
Distributed structured adaptive mesh refinement (SAMR) techniques offer the potential for accurate and cost-effective solutions of physically realistic models of complex physical phenomena. However, the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of SAMR applications ... Keywords: autonomic partitioning, dynamic applications, runtime application characterization, structured adaptive mesh refinement
Sumir Chandra; Manish Parashar
Intelligent acoustic rotor speed estimation for an autonomous helicopter
Acoustic sensing to gather information about a machine can be highly beneficial, but processing the data can be difficult. In this work, a variety of methodologies have been studied to extract rotor speed information from the sound signature of an autonomous ... Keywords: Acoustic sensing, Adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system, Artificial neural network, Feature selection, Genetic algorithm, Helicopter, Rotor speeds
Benjamin N. Passow; Mario A. Gongora; Adrian A. Hopgood; Sophy Smith
An Autonomously Recording Inverted Echo Sounder: ARIES II
A self-contained instrument, the Autonomously Recording Inverted Echo Sounder (ARIES II), carrying two 250-kHz beam side-scan sonars and with the capacity to record sonar data sampled at 3.2 kHz for 168 h with the sonars operating with a pulse ...
S. A. Thorpe; M. J. Ulloa; D. Baldwin; A. J. Hall
A generic architecture for autonomic service and network management
As the Internet evolves into an all-IP communication infrastructure, a key issue to consider is that of creating and managing IP-based services with efficient resource utilization in a scalable, flexible, and automatic way. In this paper, we present ... Keywords: Autonomic service management, Bandwidth sharing, DiffServ/MPLS networks, Quality of service, Service level agreement
Yu Cheng; Ramy Farha; Myung Sup Kim; Alberto Leon-Garcia; James Won-Ki Hong
Remote area wind energy harvesting for low-power autonomous sensors Abstract--A growing demand for deployment of autonomous
Remote area wind energy harvesting for low-power autonomous sensors Abstract--A growing demand wind energy harvesting is presented, with a focus on an anemometer-based solution. By utilizing for localized, independent energy harvesting capabilities for each node. In this paper, a method of remote area
Inner Mongolia Heilongjiang
/heroin trade, and the vast majority of illicit drugs in China are trafficked through Yunnan from the `Golden Yang, Zhiwei Chen, David D. Ho, Yan Jiang and Linqi Zhang The HIV-1/AIDS epidemic in China such as intravenous drug users and former blood and plasma donors in geographi- cally disparate rural areas1
Cai, Long
A non-autonomous flow system with Plykin type attractor
A non-autonomous flow system is introduced with an attractor of Plykin type that may serve as a base for elaboration of real systems and devices demonstrating the structurally stable chaotic dynamics. The starting point is a map on a two-dimensional sphere, consisting of four stages of continuous geometrically evident transformations. The computations indicate that in a certain parameter range the map has a uniformly hyperbolic attractor. It may be represented on a plane by means of a stereographic projection. Accounting structural stability, a modification of the model is undertaken to obtain a set of two non-autonomous differential equations of the first order with smooth coefficients. As follows from computations, it has the Plykin type attractor in the Poincar\\'{e} cross-section.
Sergey P. Kuznetsov
The overall objective of this research project is to develop novel architectural techniques as well as system software to achieve a highly secure and intrusion-tolerant computing system. Such system will be autonomous, self-adapting, introspective, with self-healing capability under the circumstances of improper operations, abnormal workloads, and malicious attacks. The scope of this research includes: (1) System-wide, unified introspection techniques for autonomic systems, (2) Secure information-flow microarchitecture, (3) Memory-centric security architecture, (4) Authentication control and its implication to security, (5) Digital right management, (5) Microarchitectural denial-of-service attacks on shared resources. During the period of the project, we developed several architectural techniques and system software for achieving a robust, secure, and reliable computing system toward our goal.
Lee, Hsien-Hsin S
Using the CIM Conceptualization in Autonomic System Management: the System Management Ontology Project
Using the CIM Conceptualization in Autonomic System Management: the System Management Ontology across multiple organizations. The CIM standard #12;schemas, on which system databases on CIM
Calvanese, Diego
Semi-Autonomous Multi-Use Robot System and Method of Operation ...
Energy Innovation Portal ... Solar Thermal; Startup ... to a semi- autonomous multi-use robot system and a method for cost effective operation of the system within an ...
Stochastic mapping for chemical plume source localization with application to autonomous hydrothermal vent discovery
This thesis presents a stochastic mapping framework for autonomous robotic chemical plume source localization in environments with multiple sources. Potential applications for robotic chemical plume source localization ...
Jakuba, Michael Vavrousek, 1976-
Path planning methods for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles; Path planning methods for AUVs.
??From naval operations to ocean science missions, the importance of autonomous vehicles is increasing with the advances in underwater robotics technology. Due to the dynamic� (more)
Control and guidance systems for the navigation of a biomimetic autonomous underwater vehicle.
??The field of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) has increased dramatically in size and scope over the past three decades. Application areas for AUVs are numerous� (more)
Tonello, Alberto
Virtual Long Baseline (VLBL) autonomous underwater vehicle navigation using a single transponder .
??This thesis presents a simulation of autonomous underwater vehicle navigation using a single transponder to create a virtual long baseline (VLBL). Similarly to LBL systems,� (more)
LaPointe, Cara E. G.
Observed Characteristics of Hail Size in Four Regions in China during 1980�2005
The climatology and long-term trend of hail size in four regions of China are documented for the period of 1980�2005 using the maximum hail diameter (MHD) data obtained from the Meteorological Administrations of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (...
Baoguo Xie; Qinghong Zhang; Yuqing Wang
OpenRAVE: A Planning Architecture for Autonomous Robotics
One of the challenges in developing real-world autonomous robots is the need for integrating and rigorously testing high-level scripting, motion planning, perception, and control algorithms. For this purpose, we introduce an open-source cross-platform software architecture called OpenRAVE, the Open Robotics and Animation Virtual Environment. OpenRAVE is targeted for real-world autonomous robot applications, and includes a seamless integration of 3-D simulation, visualization, planning, scripting and control. A plugin architecture allows users to easily write custom controllers or extend functionality. With OpenRAVE plugins, any planning algorithm, robot controller, or sensing subsystem can be distributed and dynamically loaded at run-time, which frees developers from struggling with monolithic code-bases. Users of OpenRAVE can concentrate on the development of planning and scripting aspects of a problem without having to explicitly manage the details of robot kinematics and dynamics, collision detection, world updates, and robot control. The OpenRAVE architecture provides a flexible interface that can be used in conjunction with other popular robotics packages such as Player and ROS because it is focused on autonomous motion planning and high-level scripting rather than low-level control and message protocols. OpenRAVE also supports a powerful network scripting environment which makes it simple to control and monitor robots and change execution flow during run-time. One of the key advantages of open component architectures is that they enable the robotics research community to easily share and compare algorithms.
Rosen Diankov; James Kuffner
Autonomous, teleoperated, and shared control of robot systems
This paper illustrates how different modes of operation such as bilateral teleoperation, autonomous control, and shared control can be described and implemented using combinations of modules in the SMART robot control architecture. Telerobotics modes are characterized by different ``grids`` of SMART icons, where each icon represents a portion of run-time code that implements a passive control law. By placing strict requirements on the module`s input-output behavior and using scattering theory to develop a passive sampling technique, a flexible, expandable telerobot architecture is achieved. An automatic code generation tool for generating SMART systems is also described.
Anderson, R.J.
Towards Localization and Mapping of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: A Survey
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have been used for a huge number of tasks ranging from commercial, military and research areas etc, while the fundamental function of a successful AUV is its localization and mapping ability. This report aims to review the relevant elements of localization and mapping for AUVs. First, a brief introduction of the concept and the historical development of AUVs is given; then a relatively detailed description of the sensor system used for AUV navigation is provided. As the main part of the report, a comprehensive investigation of the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for AUVs are conducted, including its application examples. Finally a brief conclusion
Ling Chen; Huosheng Hu
Autonomous, Decentralized Grid Architecture: Prosumer-Based Distributed Autonomous Cyber-Physical Architecture for Ultra-Reliable Green Electricity Networks
GENI Project: Georgia Tech is developing a decentralized, autonomous, internet-like control architecture and control software system for the electric power grid. Georgia Tech�s new architecture is based on the emerging concept of electricity prosumers�economically motivated actors that can produce, consume, or store electricity. Under Georgia Tech�s architecture, all of the actors in an energy system are empowered to offer associated energy services based on their capabilities. The actors achieve their sustainability, efficiency, reliability, and economic objectives, while contributing to system-wide reliability and efficiency goals. This is in marked contrast to the current one-way, centralized control paradigm.
Autonomous, agile micro-satellites and supporting technologies
This paper updates the on-going effort at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop autonomous, agile micro-satellites (MicroSats). The objective of this development effort is to develop MicroSats weighing only a few tens of kilograms, that are able to autonomously perform precision maneuvers and can be used telerobotically in a variety of mission modes. The required capabilities include satellite rendezvous, inspection, proximity-operations, docking, and servicing. The MicroSat carries an integrated proximity-operations sensor-suite incorporating advanced avionics. A new self-pressurizing propulsion system utilizing a miniaturized pump and non-toxic mono-propellant hydrogen peroxide was successfully tested. This system can provide a nominal 25 kg MicroSat with 200-300 m/s delta-v including a warm-gas attitude control system. The avionics is based on the latest PowerPC processor using a CompactPCI bus architecture, which is modular, high-performance and processor-independent. This leverages commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies and minimizes the effects of future changes in processors. The MicroSat software development environment uses the Vx-Works real-time operating system (RTOS) that provides a rapid development environment for integration of new software modules, allowing early integration and test. We will summarize results of recent integrated ground flight testing of our latest non-toxic pumped propulsion MicroSat testbed vehicle operated on our unique dynamic air-rail.
Breitfeller, E; Dittman, M D; Gaughan, R J; Jones, M S; Kordas, J F; Ledebuhr, A G; Ng, L C; Whitehead, J C; Wilson, B
Development of autonomous gamma dose logger for environmental monitoring
Continuous monitoring and archiving of background radiation levels in and around the nuclear installation is essential and the data would be of immense use during analysis of any untoward incidents. A portable Geiger Muller detector based autonomous gamma dose logger (AGDL) for environmental monitoring is indigenously designed and developed. The system operations are controlled by microcontroller (AT89S52) and the main features of the system are software data acquisition, real time LCD display of radiation level, data archiving at removable compact flash card. The complete system operates on 12 V battery backed up by solar panel and hence the system is totally portable and ideal for field use. The system has been calibrated with Co-60 source (8.1 MBq) at various source-detector distances. The system is field tested and performance evaluation is carried out. This paper covers the design considerations of the hardware, software architecture of the system along with details of the front-end operation of the autonomous gamma dose logger and the data file formats. The data gathered during field testing and inter comparison with GammaTRACER are also presented in the paper. AGDL has shown excellent correlation with energy fluence monitor tuned to identify {sup 41}Ar, proving its utility for real-time plume tracking and source term estimation.
Jisha, N. V.; Krishnakumar, D. N.; Surya Prakash, G.; Kumari, Anju; Baskaran, R.; Venkatraman, B. [Radiological Safety Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603 102, Tamil Nadu (India)
Energy-aware Operation and Task Allocation of Autonomous Robots
Energy-aware operation is one of the visionary goals in the area of autonomous systems research. This is especially the fact as small and mobile nodes become available and application scenarios emerge, which lead to much higher requirements in terms of reliability, longterm operability, adaptation, and self-organization. In this paper, we focus on energy control and battery management in mobile robot systems. We show an approximation technique to derive the remaining energy of the local system. The mechanism is based on a model of all energy-consuming parts of the robot system and the corresponding characteristic curves. The results are used for task allocation and behavior adaptation of each autonomously acting system. The proposed methodology increases the probability of completing globally assigned tasks. Therefore, the algorithm contributes to the performance and reliability of the global system. Additionally, each node in the overall system becomes able to employ its energy resources much more efficiently. We see this energy-aware concept for task allocation as a basis for further extensions used for studies on energy efficient communication in mobile sensor networks. 1
Falko Dressler Gerhard Fuchs
Energy 32 (2007) 406417 Modeling and control of a SOFC-GT-based autonomous power system
Energy 32 (2007) 406417 Modeling and control of a SOFC-GT-based autonomous power system Rambabu In this article, a dynamic, lumped model of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is described, as a step towards developing control relevant models for a SOFC combined with a gas turbine (GT) in an autonomous power system
Foss, Bjarne A.
Modelling and simulation of an autonomous variable speed micro hydropower station
In this paper, the modelling of an autonomous variable speed micro hydropower station is presented. It is composed of a doubly fed induction generator linked mechanically and electrically to a permanent magnet synchronous machine which may recover or ... Keywords: Distributed generation, Doubly fed induction machine, Micro hydroelectricity, Variable speed autonomous hydrogenerator
A. Ansel; B. Robyns
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
The Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS) conference series brings together researchers from around the world to share the latest advances in the field. It provides a marquee, high-profile forum for research in the theory and practice of autonomous ...
Kagan Tumer; Pinar Yolum; Liz Sonenberg; Peter Stone
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
A Policy-based Approach for Reconfiguration Management and Enforcement in Autonomic Communication Systems
This paper presents an overview of the policy-based reconfiguration management and enforcement for autonomic communication system platform (Pre-meacs). In contrast to existing management approaches, which require static priori policy configurations, ... Keywords: Autonomic communications, Policy-based management, Reconfigurable systems, Reconfiguration management
Jie Chen; Zhenzhen Zhao; Di Qu; Ping Zhang
In this paper, the modelling of an autonomous variable speed micro hydropower station is presented. It is composed of a doubly fed induction generator linked mechanically and electrically to a permanent magnet synchronous machine which may recover or ... Keywords: distributed generation, doubly fed induction machine, micro hydroelectricity, variable speed autonomous hydrogenerator
Recognition of two-dimensional representation of urban environment for autonomous flying agents
In this paper the problem of a vision system implementation for autonomous flying agents is considered in the context of industrial inspection tasks performed by unmanned aerial vehicles. A syntactic algorithm of a two-dimensional object vectorization ... Keywords: Autonomous flying agents, Object recognition, Syntactic languages, Vectorization
Andrzej Bielecki; Tomasz Buratowski; Piotr Migielski
Autonomous rendezvous and robotic capturing of non-cooperative target in space
The technologies of autonomous rendezvous and robotic capturing of non-cooperative targets are very crucial for the future on-orbital service. In this paper, we proposed a method to achieve this aim. Three problems were addressed: the target recognition ... Keywords: Autonomous capturing, Non-cooperative target, Path planning, Rendezvous and dock, Space robot
Wenfu Xu; Bin Liang; Cheng Li; Yangsheng Xu
Rough Terrain Autonomous Mobility�Part 2: An Active Vision, Predictive Control Approach
Off-road autonomous navigation is one of the most difficult automation challenges from the point of view of constraints on mobility, speed of motion, lack of environmental structure, density of hazards, and typical lack of prior information. ... Keywords: autonomous vehicles, goal-seeking, mobile robots, obstacle avoidance, requirements analysis, rough terrain mobility, terrain mapping, trajectory generation
Alonzo Kelly; Anthony Stentz
The design of an autonomic communication element to manage future internet services
Future Internet services will have vastly different requirements than the current Internet. Manageability, which has been largely ignored, will have the dual role of controlling capital and operational expenditures as well as enabling agile reorganization ... Keywords: FOCALE, autonomic architecture, autonomic element, business driven, device management, future internet, management
John Strassner; Sung-Su Kim; James Won-Ki Hong
Book Browsing System using an Autonomous Mobile Robot Teleoperated via the Internet
Book Browsing System using an Autonomous Mobile Robot Teleoperated via the Internet Tetsuo Tomizawa humans browse books of a libraly from a remote location. In this work, we build such a system accord- ingly to its basic requirements involving autonomous nav- igation, environment perception, book
Ohya, Akihisa
Network partitioning and self-sizing methods for QoS management with autonomic characteristics
The increasing complexity, heterogeneity and unpredictability of networks make the task of managing these systems highly complex. The autonomic computing paradigm brings innovative solutions to the network management area with new adaptable and "clever" ... Keywords: LSPs, MPLS, autonomic computing, bandwidth allocation, computational complexity, network management, network partitioning, quality of service, self-sizing networks
Romildo Martins Da Silva Bezerra; Joberto S�rgio Barbosa Martins
An incremental deployment algorithm for wireless sensor networks using one or multiple autonomous agents
The paper studies the deployment problem of wireless sensor networks using one or multiple autonomous agents. An online incremental algorithm based on Voronoi partition is proposed to solve the problem, for which each agent deploys sensors one-at-a-time ... Keywords: Autonomous agent, Incremental deployment, Sensor network
Zhiyun Lin; Sijian Zhang; Gangfeng Yan
The design and evaluation of a mobile sensor/actuator network for autonomous animal control
This paper investigates a mobile, wireless sensor/actuator network application for use in the cattle breeding industry. Our goal is to prevent fighting between bulls in on-farm breeding paddocks by autonomously applying appropriate stimuli when one bull ... Keywords: application, autonomous animal control, sensor/actuator networks
Tim Wark; Chris Crossman; Wen Hu; Ying Guo; Philip Valencia; Pavan Sikka; Peter Corke; Caroline Lee; John Henshall; Kishore Prayaga; Julian O'Grady; Matt Reed; Andrew Fisher
www.postersession.com Autonomous Underwater Vehicles of the Underwater Technology Laboratory
printed by www.postersession.com Autonomous Underwater Vehicles of the Underwater Technology at depths to 6000 meters. The system will comprise of four key components: 1) an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), 2) an underwater refueling and information exchange station, 3) an oceanographic mooring
Abstract-Homing and navigation capabilities are essential for many Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Abstract- Homing and navigation capabilities are essential for many Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, speed bias and underwater currents affect dead-reckoning measurements. All operation need to have INTRODUCTION Actually, there is a real challenge on application of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, particularly
From PD to Nonlinear Adaptive Depth-Control of a Tethered Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
From PD to Nonlinear Adaptive Depth-Control of a Tethered Autonomous Underwater Vehicle D and an adaptive nonlinear state feedback one, both applied on a tethered autonomous underwater vehicle. The aim performed using each of the above mentioned control laws. Keywords: Underwater robotics, Depth control
SCENARIOS FOR AN AUTONOMIC MICRO SMART GRID Sylvain Frey1,2
SCENARIOS FOR AN AUTONOMIC MICRO SMART GRID Sylvain Frey1,2 , François Huguet1 , Cédric Mivielle1 Systems, Micro Smart Grids. Abstract: Autonomic computing is a bio-inspired vision elaborated to manage presents a series of scenarios relative to micro smart grids district-size "smart" electricity networks
Diaconescu, Ada
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: industrial track: industrial track
Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems are no doubt interesting paradigms for software modeling and development and raise much hope in the community for the last twenty years: � Autonomous agents are computer programs capable of deciding between ...
DualTrust: A Distributed Trust Model for Swarm-Based Autonomic Computing Systems
For autonomic computing systems that utilize mobile agents and ant colony algorithms for their sensor layer, trust management is important for the acceptance of the mobile agent sensors and to protect the system from malicious behavior by insiders and entities that have penetrated network defenses. This paper examines the trust relationships, evidence, and decisions in a representative system and finds that by monitoring the trustworthiness of the autonomic managers rather than the swarming sensors, the trust management problem becomes much more scalable and still serves to protect the swarm. We then propose the DualTrust conceptual trust model. By addressing the autonomic manager�s bi-directional primary relationships in the ACS architecture, DualTrust is able to monitor the trustworthiness of the autonomic managers, protect the sensor swarm in a scalable manner, and provide global trust awareness for the orchestrating autonomic manager.
Maiden, Wendy M.; Dionysiou, Ioanna; Frincke, Deborah A.; Fink, Glenn A.; Bakken, David E.
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Reliability assessment of autonomous power systems incorporating HVDC interconnection links
The objective of this paper is to present an improved computational method for the overall reliability assessment of autonomous power systems that may or may not contain HVdc interconnection links. This is a hybrid method based on a Monte-Carlo simulation sequential approach which incorporates an analytical approach for the reliability modeling of the HVdc transmission links. The developed models and techniques have been implemented into a computer program that can be used to simulate the operational practices and characteristics of the overall system under study efficiently and realistically. A set of reliability indices are calculated for each load-point of interest and the entire system while a set of additional indices is calculated for quantifying the reliability performance of the interconnection links under the specified operating requirements. The analysis of a practical system is also included for a number of studies representing its various operating and design characteristics.
Dialynas, E.N.; Koskolos, N.C. [National Technical Univ., Athens (Greece). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Agoris, D. [Public Power Corp., Athens (Greece)
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An Infrared Sea Surface Temperature Autonomous Radiometer (ISAR) for Deployment aboard Volunteer Observing Ships (VOS)
The infrared SST autonomous radiometer (ISAR) is a self-calibrating instrument capable of measuring in situ sea surface skin temperature (SSTskin) to an accuracy of 0.1 K. Extensive field deployments alongside two independent research radiometers ...
C. Donlon; I. S. Robinson; W. Wimmer; G. Fisher; M. Reynolds; R. Edwards; T. J. Nightingale
Eddy Seeding in the Labrador Sea: A Submerged Autonomous Launch Platform Application
Two submerged autonomous launch platforms (SALPs) were deployed at 500-m depth on a deep-water mooring in the northeastern Labrador Sea from 2007 to 2009 to automatically release profiling floats into passing warm-core anticyclonic Irminger Rings (...
Heather H. Furey; M. Femke de Jong; James R. Valdes; Amy S. Bower
Intermediate-Depth Circulation of the Indian and South Pacific Oceans Measured by Autonomous Floats
As part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, 306 autonomous floats were deployed in the tropical and South Pacific Ocean and 228 were deployed in the Indian Ocean to observe the basinwide circulation near 900-m depth. Mean velocities, ...
Russ E. Davis
A unified framework for trajectory planning, threat assessment, and semi-autonomous control of passenger vehicles
This thesis describes the design of an active safety framework that performs trajectory planning, threat assessment, and semi-autonomous control of passenger vehicles in hazard avoidance scenarios. The vehicle navigation ...
Anderson, Sterling J., Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DualTrust: A Trust Management Model for Swarm-Based Autonomic Computing Systems
Trust management techniques must be adapted to the unique needs of the application architectures and problem domains to which they are applied. For autonomic computing systems that utilize mobile agents and ant colony algorithms for their sensor layer, certain characteristics of the mobile agent ant swarm -- their lightweight, ephemeral nature and indirect communication -- make this adaptation especially challenging. This thesis looks at the trust issues and opportunities in swarm-based autonomic computing systems and finds that by monitoring the trustworthiness of the autonomic managers rather than the swarming sensors, the trust management problem becomes much more scalable and still serves to protect the swarm. After analyzing the applicability of trust management research as it has been applied to architectures with similar characteristics, this thesis specifies the required characteristics for trust management mechanisms used to monitor the trustworthiness of entities in a swarm-based autonomic computing system and describes a trust model that meets these requirements.
Maiden, Wendy M.
CarSpeak : a content-centric network for autonomous driving
We introduce CarSpeak, a communication system for autonomous driving. CarSpeak enables a car to query and access sensory information captured by other cars in a manner similar to how it accesses information from its local ...
Suresh Kumar, Swarun
Geometric Integration of Non-autonomous Systems with Application to Rotor Dynamics
Geometric integration of non-autonomous classical engineering problems, such as rotor dynamics, is investigated. It is shown, both numerically and by backward error analysis, that geometric (structure preserving) integration algorithms are superior to conventional Runge-Kutta methods.
Modin, Klas
X-Pipeline: an analysis package for autonomous gravitational-wave burst searches
Autonomous gravitational-wave searches�fully automated analyses of data that run without human intervention or assistance�are desirable for a number of reasons. They are necessary for the rapid identification of ...
Sutton, Patrick J.
The Oceanic Remote Chemical/Optical Analyzer (ORCA)�An Autonomous Moored Profiler
An autonomous, moored profiler [the Oceanic Remote Chemical/Optical Analyzer (ORCA)] was developed to sense a variety of chemical and optical properties in the upper water column. It is presently used to monitor water quality parameters in South ...
John P. Dunne; Allan H. Devol; Steven Emerson
Dynamic response and maneuvering strategies of a hybrid autonomous underwater vehicle in hovering
The Odyssey IV autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is the next generation of unmanned subsurface robots from the MIT Sea Grant AUV Laboratory. The Odyssey IV AUV has a novel propulsion system, which includes a pair of ...
Cooney, Lauren Alise
Investigating the Mobility of Light Autonomous Tracked Vehicles Using a High Performance Computing
Investigating the Mobility of Light Autonomous Tracked Vehicles Using a High Performance Computing limiting the scope and impact of high performance computing (HPC). This scenario is rapidly changing due
Agent-Oriented Intelligent Control Strategies for the Nano-satellite Autonomous Thermal System
The paper concerns the autonomous thermal control system of Nano-satellite with a study of the combination of MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems)-based efficient cooling technique and the agent-oriented intelligent control strategies issue, especially ...
Liu Jia; Li Yunze; Wang Yuying; Wang Jun
Autonomous personal vehicle for the first- and last-mile transportation services
This paper describes an autonomous vehicle testbed that aims at providing the first- and last- mile transportation services. The vehicle mainly operates in a crowded urban environment whose features can be extracted a ...
Chong, Z. J.
Integrated simulation environment for unmanned autonomous systems: towards a conceptual framework
The paper initiates a comprehensive conceptual framework for an integrated simulation environment for unmanned autonomous systems (UAS) that is capable of supporting the design, analysis, testing, and evaluation from a "system of systems" perspective. ...
M. G. Perhinschi; M. R. Napolitano; S. Tamayo
Transforming the DoD test and evaluation enterprise to enable unmanned autonomous systems of systems
Many US Department of Defense (DoD) systems operate within a systems of systems construct, which present many challenges and will be ever increasing for test and evaluation of unmanned autonomous systems of systems. ...
Cowart, Karl K., 1975-
Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter Flow Measurement from an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with Applications to Deep Ocean Convection
The authors present a new modality for direct measurement of ocean flow, achieved by combining the resolution and precision of an acoustic Doppler velocimeter with the mobility of an autonomous underwater vehicle. To obtain useful measurements, ...
Yanwu Zhang; Knut Streitlien; James G. Bellingham; Arthur B. Baggeroer
An Architectural Framework for the Design and Analysis of Autonomous Adaptive Systems
Autonomous adaptive systems (AAS) have been proposed as a solution to effectively (re)design software so that it can respond to changes in execution environments, without human intervention. In the software engineering community, alternative approaches ...
Kendra Cooper; Joao W. Cangussu; Eric Wong
Remote Real-Time Video-Enabled Docking for Underwater Autonomous Platforms
One of the key challenges in the development and implementation of ocean observatories is sustained observations over relevant temporal and spatial scales. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have demonstrated their potential for synoptic ...
Mark A. Moline; Oscar Schofield
Design of an autonomous underwater vehicle : vehicle tracking and position control.
??This project proposes the development of an autonomous underwater vehicle that can be used to perform underwater research missions..The vehicle can be pre-programmed to complete� (more)
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Virtual long baseline (VLBL) autonomous underwater vehicle navigation using a single transponder
(cont.) Therefore, accurate underwater navigation using a single location transponder would provide dramatic time and cost savings for underwater vehicle operations. This thesis presents a simulation of autonomous underwater ...
LaPointe, Cara Elizabeth Grupe
Open loop performance of a biomimetic flapping foil autonomous underwater vehicle
Flapping foil propulsion is emerging as an alternative to conventional propulsion for underwater vehicles. MIT's Biomimetic Flapping Foil Autonomous Underwater Vehicle is a prototype vehicle that uses four three-dimensional ...
Wolf, Malima Isabelle, 1981-
Determining Turbulent Vertical Velocity, and Fluxes of Heat and Salt with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
The authors show that vertical turbulent fluxes in the upper ocean can be measured directly with an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). A horizontal profile of vertical water velocity is obtained by applying a Kalman smoother to AUV motion data. ...
Daniel R. Hayes; James H. Morison
Neural Network Mapping of Magnet Based Position Sensing System for Autonomous Robotic Vehicle
In this paper a neural network mapping of magnet based position sensing system for an autonomous robotic vehicle. The position sensing system using magnetic markers embedded under the surface of roadway pavement. An important role of magnetic position ...
Dae---Yeong Im; Young-Jae Ryoo; Jang-Hyun Park; Hyong-Yeol Yang; Ju-Sang Lee
Steering control of an autonomous ground vehicle with application to the DARPA Urban Challenge
Fundamental to the design of an Ackerman steered autonomous ground vehicle is the development of a low-level controller that effectively performs trajectory or path tracking. Though ample literature is available on various ...
Campbell, Stefan F. (Stefan Forrest)
Collection of Water Samples from an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Tracer Analysis
A compact water sampler rated to full ocean depth has been deployed from an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to enable oceanographic tracer measurements. Techniques developed to allow the instrument to collect up to 49 samples of sufficient ...
Paul A. Dodd; Martin R. Price; Karen J. Heywood; Miles Pebody
Building a 3D Simulator for Autonomous Navigation of Robotic Fishes
Abstract-- This paper presents a 3D simulator used for studying the motion control and autonomous navigation of a robotic fish. The simplified kinematics and hydrodynamics models are created for the simulator, including many other object models such as water, obstacles, sonar sensors and a swimming pool. The experimental results show that the use of this simulator is a realistic and convenient way to develop autonomous navigation algorithms for robotic fishes. I.
Jindong Liu
COMBUSTION AUTONOME DE SPHERES D'ALUMINIUM R. Bouriannes et N. Mnson
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Abnormally Malicious Autonomous Systems and their Internet Connectivity
While many attacks are distributed across botnets, investigators and network operators have recently targeted malicious networks through high profile autonomous system (AS) de-peerings and network shut-downs. In this paper, we explore whether some ASes indeed are safe havens for malicious activity. We look for ISPs and ASes that exhibit disproportionately high malicious behavior using ten popular blacklists, plus local spam data, and extensive DNS resolutions based on the contents of the blacklists. We find that some ASes have over 80% of their routable IP address space blacklisted. Yet others account for large fractions of blacklisted IP addresses. Several ASes regularly peer with ASes associated with significant malicious activity. We also find that malicious ASes as a whole differ from benign ones in other properties not obviously related to their malicious activities, such as more frequent connectivity changes with their BGP peers. Overall, we conclude that examining malicious activity at AS granularity can unearth networks with lax security or those that harbor cybercrime.
Shue, Craig A [ORNL; Kalafut, Prof. Andrew [Grand Valley State University (GVSU), Michigan; Gupta, Prof. Minaxi [Indiana University
Autonomous observations of the ocean biological carbon pump
Prediction of the substantial biologically mediated carbon flows in a rapidly changing and acidifying ocean requires model simulations informed by observations of key carbon cycle processes on the appropriate space and time scales. From 2000 to 2004, the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) supported the development of the first low-cost fully-autonomous ocean profiling Carbon Explorers that demonstrated that year-round real-time observations of particulate organic carbon (POC) concentration and sedimentation could be achieved in the world's ocean. NOPP also initiated the development of a sensor for particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) suitable for operational deployment across all oceanographic platforms. As a result, PIC profile characterization that once required shipboard sample collection and shipboard or shore based laboratory analysis, is now possible to full ocean depth in real time using a 0.2W sensor operating at 24 Hz. NOPP developments further spawned US DOE support to develop the Carbon Flux Explorer, a free-vehicle capable of following hourly variations of particulate inorganic and organic carbon sedimentation from near surface to kilometer depths for seasons to years and capable of relaying contemporaneous observations via satellite. We have demonstrated the feasibility of real time - low cost carbon observations which are of fundamental value to carbon prediction and when further developed, will lead to a fully enhanced global carbon observatory capable of real time assessment of the ocean carbon sink, a needed constraint for assessment of carbon management policies on a global scale.
Bishop, James K.B.
An Approach to Autonomous Control for Space Nuclear Power Systems
Under Project Prometheus, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) investigated deep space missions that would utilize space nuclear power systems (SNPSs) to provide energy for propulsion and spacecraft power. The initial study involved the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO), which was proposed to conduct in-depth studies of three Jovian moons. Current radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) and solar power systems cannot meet expected mission power demands, which include propulsion, scientific instrument packages, and communications. Historically, RTGs have provided long-lived, highly reliable, low-power-level systems. Solar power systems can provide much greater levels of power, but power density levels decrease dramatically at {approx} 1.5 astronomical units (AU) and beyond. Alternatively, an SNPS can supply high-sustained power for space applications that is both reliable and mass efficient. Terrestrial nuclear reactors employ varying degrees of human control and decision-making for operations and benefit from periodic human interaction for maintenance. In contrast, the control system of an SNPS must be able to provide continuous operatio for the mission duration with limited immediate human interaction and no opportunity for hardware maintenance or sensor calibration. In effect, the SNPS control system must be able to independently operate the power plant while maintaining power production even when subject to off-normal events and component failure. This capability is critical because it will not be possible to rely upon continuous, immediate human interaction for control due to communications delays and periods of planetary occlusion. In addition, uncertainties, rare events, and component degradation combine with the aforementioned inaccessibility and unattended operation to pose unique challenges that an SNPS control system must accommodate. Autonomous control is needed to address these challenges and optimize the reactor control design.
Wood, Richard Thomas [ORNL; Upadhyaya, Belle R. [University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
An odd-number limitation of extended time-delayed feedback control in autonomous systems
We propose a necessary condition for the successful stabilisation of a periodic orbit using the extended version of time-delayed feedback control. This condition depends on the number of real Floquet multipliers larger than unity and is therefore related to the well-known odd-number limitation in non-autonomous systems. We show that the period of the orbit which is induced by mismatching the delay-time of the control scheme and the period of the uncontrolled orbit plays an important role in the formulation of the odd-number limitation in the autonomous case.
Andreas Amann; Edward W. Hooton
The Pemex-B autonomous demining robot: perception and navigation strategies
Landmines are easy to lay but difficult to find and destroy. They are blind killers that should be forbidden as soon as possible. Nevertheless, there are about 100 million mines to be removed, and as many ready to be dispersed by hand or helicopter. ... Keywords: GPS, Pemex-B autonomous demining robot, collective behaviour, computerised navigation, cooperative systems, landmines, laser ranging, lightweight low-cost semi-autonomous robots, local scan, mobile robots, monitoring, monitoring station, navigation strategies, odometry, path planning, perception, radio coordination, surveillance, surveillance team, telerobotics, weapons
Dynamic subgoal generation of autonomous agents moving in a lattice world
Abstract: The paper approaches self organization of autonomous agents moving in a lattice world to achieve a shared final goal from the viewpoint of self regeneration and forced regeneration of subgoals. The model is referred to as The Tower of Babel ... Keywords: DAI systems, L*, Tower of Babel, autonomous agents, block subgoal, cooperative systems, cost performance, distributed artificial intelligence, distributed cooperation system, distributed processing, dynamic subgoal generation, escape factor, forced regenerating schemes, forced regeneration, intersection subgoal, lattice world, mobile robots, optimal agent number, self organization, self regenerating scheme, self regeneration, shared final goal, software agents, subgoal confliction
Non-Intrusive Autonomic Approach with Self-Management Policies Applied to Legacy Infrastructures for Performance Improvements
The growing complexity of large IT facilities involves important time and effort costs to operate and maintain. Autonomic computing gives a new approach in designing distributed architectures that manage themselves in accordance with high-level objectives. ... Keywords: Autonomic Computing, Distributed, Grid, Legacy, Performance, Policies
R�mi Sharrock; Thierry Monteil; Patricia Stolf; Daniel Hagimont; Laurent Broto
Copyright Journal of Ocean Technology 2009 Underwater Intervention, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2009 7 Autonomous Underwater Gliders (AUGs) are
Copyright Journal of Ocean Technology 2009 Underwater Intervention, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2009 7 Autonomous Underwater Gliders (AUGs) are becoming the tool of choice for oceanographers to collect in of Ocean Gliders A glider is a type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that is able to move for weeks
deYoung, Brad
Abstract--Heart rate variability (HRV) is frequently used to measure autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity. However,
1 of 4 Abstract--Heart rate variability (HRV) is frequently used to measure autonomic nervous frequency (HF) ratio with little change in mean heart rate. Results suggest that nicotine affects both components may yield erroneous results. Keywords--Autonomic regulation, heart rate variability, Lomb
t 09/20/07 15:28 FAX 301 903 4656 t 09/20/07 15:28 FAX 301 903 4656 CAPITAL REGION 0 j002 SDOE F 1325.8 (8-89) EFG (0790) Energy United States Government Department of Energy Memorandum DATE. September 18, 2007 Audit Report No.: OAS-L-07-23 REPLY TO: IG-34 (A07TG036) SUBJECT: Evaluation of "The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Cyber Security Program-2007" TO: Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission The purpose of this report is to inform you of the results o Four evaluation of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) cyber security program. The evaluation was initiated in May 2007, and our fieldwork was conducted through September 2007. Our methodology is described in the attachment to this report. . INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE The Commission reports that it is constantly improving thl stability, reliability, and
Design of a vision-based sensor for autonomous pig house cleaning
Current pig house cleaning procedures are hazardous to the health of farm workers, and yet necessary if the spread of disease between batches of animals is to be satisfactorily controlled. Autonomous cleaning using robot technology offers salient benefits. ... Keywords: Bayesian discriminant analysis, Jeffreys-Matusita, computer vision, robotic cleaning, spectral characterisation
Ian Braithwaite; Mogens Blanke; Guo-Qiang Zhang; Jens Michael Carstensen
A triangular approach to motivation in Computer Assisted Autonomous Language Learning (CAALL)
This study was carried out in a language centre, in French higher education. Teachers and researchers had contrived a pedagogical system labeled guided autonomy which combined class attendance in groups and self-study in the self-study room. This kind ... Keywords: CALL, autonomous learning, learning strategies, motivation, triangulation
Fran�oise Raby
Hamilton-Jacobi theory for one dimensional autonomous systems using parametric transformations
A necessary and sufficient condition for a parameter transformation that leaves invariant the energy of a one dimensional autonomous system is obtained. Using a parameter transformation the Hamilton-Jacobi equation is solved by a quadrature. An example of this approach is given.
G. Gonzalez
Gravity Based Autonomous Calibration for Robot Manipulators Donghai Ma, John M. Hollerbach and Yangming Xu
Gravity Based Autonomous Calibration for Robot Manipulators Donghai Ma, John M. Hollerbach, the gravity torque exerted on the joint varies sinusoidally with rotation angle. By means of sinusoidal curve. The gravity vec- tor, expressed in the defined base coordinates, can also be found. Thereafter we determine
Hollerbach, John M.
Autonomous Measurements of Sea Surface Temperature Using In Situ Thermal Infrared Data
In situ and autonomous measurements of sea surface temperature (SST) have been performed with a thermal infrared radiometer mounted on a fixed oil rig. The accuracy limit was established at �0.3 K for these SST measurements in order to meet the ...
Raquel Nicl�s; Vicente Caselles; C�sar Coll; Enric Valor; Eva Rubio
SALSA: QoS-aware load balancing for autonomous service brokering
The evolution towards ''Software as a Service'', facilitated by various web service technologies, has led to applications composed of a number of service building blocks. These applications are dynamically composed by web service brokers, but rely critically ... Keywords: Autonomous system, High throughput, Load balancing, Service brokering, Simulated annealing, Weighted round-robin
Bas Boone; Sofie Van Hoecke; Gregory Van Seghbroeck; Niels Joncheere; Viviane Jonckers; Filip De Turck; Chris Develder; Bart Dhoedt
Control of Inverter-Connected Sources in Autonomous Microgrids Ian A. Hiskens Eric M. Fleming
Control of Inverter-Connected Sources in Autonomous Microgrids Ian A. Hiskens Eric M. Fleming interconnection strate- gies. The resulting microgrid concept allows sub-networks of sources and loads to maintain to a microgrid, explores controller behaviour. The investigation considers disconnection from the main grid
Hiskens, Ian A.
Analysis of using fuel cell technology for autonomous underwater vehicle power supply
Nowadays underwater robotics aims at semi or whole autonomous underwater vehicles. Autonomy of underwater robots depends on their control systems usually based on artificial intelligence methods and capacity of supply sources mounted on their boards. ... Keywords: fuel cell, underwater vehicle power supply
Grzegorz Grzeczka; Piotr Szymak
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
The Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS) conference series brings together researchers from around the world to share the latest advances in the field. It provides a highprofile and high-quality forum for research in the theory and practice ...
Maria Gini, Onn Shehory, Takayuki Ito, Catholijn Jonker
Application of autonomic agents for global information grid management and security
In the near future, the U.S. DoD will activate a newly created Global Information Grid (GIG) providing an agile, robust, interoperable and collaborative communication network. This GIG is viewed as the single most important contributor to combat power ... Keywords: autonomia, autonomic agents, global information grid, net-centric warfare, network security
Don P. Cox; Youssif Al-Nashif; Salim Hariri
A fuzzy cognitive maps-petri nets energy management system for autonomous polygeneration microgrids
Autonomous polygeneration microgrids (APM) are a relatively new approach in covering specific needs like power, potable water and fuel for transportation, in remote areas. This approach has been proved to be technically feasible nowadays and even present ... Keywords: APM, FCMs, FPEMS, Fuzzy cognitive maps, Microgrids, PEM, PN, PSO, Particle swarm optimization, Petri nets, Polygeneration
George Kyriakarakos; Anastasios I. Dounis; Konstantinos G. Arvanitis; George Papadakis
A reinforcement learning approach to autonomous decision-making in smart electricity markets
The vision of a Smart Electric Grid relies critically on substantial advances in intelligent decentralized control mechanisms. We propose a novel class of autonomous broker agents for retail electricity trading that can operate in a wide range of Smart ... Keywords: Energy brokers, Feature selection, Reinforcement learning, Smart electricity grid, Trading agents
Markus Peters; Wolfgang Ketter; Maytal Saar-Tsechansky; John Collins
Autonomous Path Tracking of a Kinematic Airship in Presence of Unknown Gust
The trajectory tracking problem of autonomous lighter than air vehicles in the presence of wind gusts is studied in this paper. The airship is represented as one point which is its center of volume, and only the kinematic equations are considered for ... Keywords: Airship, Gusts, Kinematic model, Lyapunov approach, Trajectory tracking
Elie Kahale; Pedro Castillo Garcia; Yasmina Bestaoui
Using motives and artificial emotions for long-term activity of an autonomous robot
To operate over a long period of time in the real world, autonomous mobile robots must have the capability of recharging themselves whenever necessary. In addition to be able to find and dock into a charging station, robots must be able to decide when ...
Fran�ois Michaud; Jonathan Audet
Equilibria in Electricity Markets Autonomous System for Remote Areas References Applications of Linear and Nonlinear Optimisation
of electricity markets. Most models incorporate the transmission system by using linear DC approximationsEquilibria in Electricity Markets Autonomous System for Remote Areas References Applications of Linear and Nonlinear Optimisation in the Electricity Sector Miguel F. Anjos Professor and Canada Research
An autonomous hybrid robot system to navigate through unknown maze environments
This paper describes a fully complete autonomous hybrid robot system, named YAM (Yet Another Mouse), that is able to navigate through an unknown maze environment. YAM effectively tackles the problem of how to represent the environment using its sensor ... Keywords: intelligent agents, knowledge representation, path planning, robot competitions
Pedro Ribeiro
Development of an autonomous early warning system for Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) outbreaks in remote fruit orchards
Developing an autonomous early warning system for detecting pest resurgence is an essential task to reduce the probabilities of massive Oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel)) outbreaks. By preventing pest outbreaks, farmers would be able to ... Keywords: Agricultural management, Early warning system, Oriental fruit fly, Pest monitoring, Wireless sensor networks
Min-Sheng Liao; Cheng-Long Chuang; Tzu-Shiang Lin; Chia-Pang Chen; Xiang-Yao Zheng; Po-Tang Chen; Kuo-Chi Liao; Joe-Air Jiang
Autonomous ocean turbulence measurements using shear probes on a moored instrument
An internally recording, autonomous instrument has been tested for measurements of ocean turbulence from a mooring line. Measurements were made at a single level in the water column, but for an extended period of time, at a pre-determined duty ...
Ilker Fer; Mostafa Bakhoday Paskyabi
into account the phase-locked loop (PLL) dynamics. An example, in which two SOFC plants provide power of a simple microgrid.1 The generators, in this case solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), are grid connected. When the circuit breaker opens, however, buses 1 to 4 form an autonomous microgrid, with the two SOFC sources
A review of path planning and mapping technologies for autonomous mobile robot systems
This paper presents a review of various technologies for autonomous movement of a robot. Path planning is the process of generating a collision free path to the goal. Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is the process of creating a map of the ... Keywords: SLAM, anytime search algorithm, hippocampus, hybrid map, incremental search algorithm, localization, mapping, path planning, topological map
Nitin Kumar Dhiman; Dipti Deodhare; Deepak Khemani
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
The Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS) conference series brings together researchers from around the world to share the latest advances in the field. It provides a high-profile and high-quality forum for research in the theory and practice ...
Vincent Conitzer; Michael Winikoff; Wiebe van der Hoek; Lin Padgham
A Behavioral Probabilistic Risk Assessment Framework for Managing Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Deployments
The deployment of a deep-diving long-range autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is a complex operation that requires the use of a risk-informed decision-making process. Operational risk assessment is heavily dependent on expert subjective judgment. ...
Mario Brito; Gwyn Griffiths; James Ferguson; David Hopkin; Richard Mills; Richard Pederson; Erin MacNeil
Autonomous Above-Water Radiance Measurements from an Offshore Platform: A Field Assessment Experiment
An autonomous system for making above-water radiance measurements has been produced by adding a new measurement scenario to a CIMEL CE-318 sun photometer. The new system, called the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Photometer ...
G. Zibordi; S. B. Hooker; J. F. Berthon; D. D'Alimonte
AppFlow: Autonomic Performance-Per-Watt Management of Large-Scale Data Centers
The characteristic of dramatic fluctuation in the resource provisioning for real-time applications calls for an elastic delivery of computing services. Current data center deployment schemes, which feature a strong tie between servers and applications, ... Keywords: Autonomic Computing, Data Center, Power Management
Bithika Khargharia; Haoting Luo; Youssif Al-Nashif; Salim Hariri
Flying eyes: free-space content creation using autonomous aerial vehicles
Highly effective 3D-camerawork techniques that do not have physical limitations have been developed for creating three-dimensional (3D) computer games. Recent techniques used for real-world visual content creation, such as those used for sports broadcasting ... Keywords: autonomous camerawork, unmanned aerial vehicle, video content
Keita Higuchi; Yoshio Ishiguro; Jun Rekimoto
Semi-Autonomous Car Control Using Brain Computer Daniel Gohring, David Latotzky, Miao Wang, Raul Rojas
to the introduction of various driver assistance systems for street cars. One key aspect for driver assistance systems. Recently, BCI-systems have become relatively affordable and allow people to interact directly-violations and accidents by reclaiming control before they happen. The second application implements a semi-autonomous path
Göhring, Daniel
Implementation and Testing of an Elastic Strain Powered Wireless Sensing System for Energy-Autonomous Applications
This paper presents implementation and testing of an elastic strain powered wireless sensing system for energy-autonomous applications. The system harvests strain energy from a vibrating structure and convert it into usable electrical energy for powering ... Keywords: strain energy, piezoelectric generator, wireless sensor communication node, structural health monitoring, energy-aware interface
Alessandro Giuliano, Vlad Marsic, Meiling Zhu
Engineering an autonomic partitioning framework for Grid-based SAMR applications
Dynamic structured adaptive mesh refinement (SAMR) methods for the numerical solution to partial differential equations yield highly advantageous ratios for cost/accuracy when compared to methods based upon static uniform approximations. However, distributed ... Keywords: autonomic partitioning, dynamic load balancing, grid computing, structured adaptive mesh refinement
S. Chandra; X. Li; M. Parashar
Improving Endurance of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles through Intelligent Service-Station Placement
Improving Endurance of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles through Intelligent Service-Station Placement Roy and the nature of the application. We present these algorithms in the context of a generic survey application location per flight, and not at more general survey applications such as search and rescue, surveillance
Minnesota, University of
Using a High Order Sliding Modes for diving control a torpedo Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Using a High Order Sliding Modes for diving control a torpedo Autonomous Underwater Vehicle T Underwater Vehicle AUV is not a trivial task, due to: Parameter uncertainties (as added mass, hydrodynamic underwater robots are basically two: PD [2] [10] and Sliding Modes Control (SMC) [6] [11]. These algorithms
Submesoscale Coastal Ocean Flows Detected by Very High Frequency Radar and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Over a 29-day time series in July 1999, an ocean surface current radar (OSCR) in very high frequency (VHF) mode mapped the surface velocity field at 250-m resolution at 700 cells off Fort Lauderdale, Florida. During the experiment, autonomous ...
Lynn K. Shay; Thomas M. Cook; P. Edgar An
New Ozone Measurement Systems for Autonomous Operation on Ocean Buoys and Towers
Two autonomous ozone measurement systems for use on ocean buoys and towers have been built and are discussed herein. They are based on low-power atmospheric ozone sensors from Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) and 2B Technologies. The PSI sensor ...
E. J. Hintsa; G. P. Allsup; C. F. Eck; D. S. Hosom; M. J. Purcell; A. A. Roberts; D. R. Scott; E. R. Sholkovitz; W. T. Rawlins; P. A. Mulhall; K. Lightner; W. W. McMillan; J. Song; M. J. Newchurch
Energy Management Framework Designed for Autonomous Electric Vehicle with Sensor Networks Navigation
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) have emerged as a cutting edge technology for next-generation industrial applications, and are undergoing rapid development and inspiring numerous application domains. This article presents an innovative CPS application for ... Keywords: cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, energy management, energy-efficient design, autonomous electric vehicle
Hui Suo, Jiafu Wan, Di Li, Caifeng Zou
Method of evaluating, expanding, and collapsing connectivity regions within dynamic systems
An automated process defines and maintains connectivity regions within a dynamic network. The automated process requires an initial input of a network component around which a connectivity region will be defined. The process automatically and autonomously generates a region around the initial input, stores the region's definition, and monitors the network for a change. Upon detecting a change in the network, the effect is evaluated, and if necessary the regions are adjusted and redefined to accommodate the change. Only those regions of the network affected by the change will be updated. This process eliminates the need for an operator to manually evaluate connectivity regions within a network. Since the automated process maintains the network, the reliance on an operator is minimized; thus, reducing the potential for operator error. This combination of region maintenance and reduced operator reliance, results in a reduction of overall error.
Bailey, David A. (Schenectady, NY)
Method of Evaluating, Expanding, and Collapsing Connectivity Regions Within Dynamic Systems
Bailey, David A.
Region 9: Pacific Rim Region, Regional Sustainability Plan
REGION 9: PACIFIC RIM REGION REGION 9: PACIFIC RIM REGION Regional Sustainability Plan Presented by Ruth Cox Region 9 Regional Administrator Federal Utility Partnership Working Group (FUPWG) May 22 nd , 2013 REGION 9 INFORMATION MANAGE Federal space 36 million RSF in Region Nine * 173 owned buildings, 955 leased buildings * 100,000 Federal workers housed DESIGN & CONSTRUCT new Federal buildings $1.4 billion in FY12 capital construction projects $318 million in FY13 - Los Angeles Courthouse project PROVIDE PROCUREMENT LEADERSHIP across the Federal government $1.24 billion in total GSA Schedule sales in FY12 $468 million to small businesses 34,000 fleet vehicles, 53% of which are Alternative Fuel Vehicles Pacific Rim Profile - CA, AZ, NV, HI
AEVITA : designing biomimetic vehicle-to-pedestrian communication protocols for autonomously operating & parking on-road electric vehicles
With research institutions from various private, government and academic sectors performing research into autonomous vehicle deployment strategies, the way we think about vehicles must adapt. But what happens when the ...
Pennycooke, Nicholas (Nicholas D.)
Assessment of Autonomic Control and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Using Point Process Models of Human Heart Beat Dynamics
Tracking the autonomic control and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) from electrocardiogram and respiratory measurements is an important problem in cardiovascular control. We propose a point process adaptive filter algorithm ...
Chen, Zhe
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Measurements of Surface Wave Decay and Directional Spectra in the Marginal Sea Ice Zone
In March 2003 several autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) missions were carried out under sea ice in the western Bellingshausen Sea. Data from the upward-looking acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) on the �Autosub� AUV indicate a strongly ...
Daniel R. Hayes; Adrian Jenkins; Stephen McPhail
Design of an autonomous underwater vehicle to evaluate the blazed array sonar and simultaneous localization and mapping algorithms
This thesis has investigated aspects of the design of a new highly maneuverable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle - the XAUV. The overall goal for the design of this vehicle is to create a small, highly maneuverable AUV that ...
Uhle, Matthew William
A unified framework for resource-bounded autonomous agents interacting with unknown environments
the weather, play chess, solve mazes, drive cars, discover physical theories, solve IQ tests and predict future stock prices. Even though, admit- tedly, AIXI cannot be implemented because it is uncomputable, one should still be able to devise a down... , the implementation and the performance of an autonomous system. In navigation devices for instance, the usage of continuous I/O sets is vital for its robustness. Furthermore, choosing and modeling continuous I/O sets appropriately can be a very challenging task...
Ortega, Pedro Alejandro Jr
Autonomous single-pass endmember approximation using lattice auto-associative memories
We propose a novel method for the autonomous determination of endmembers that employs recent results from the theory of lattice based auto-associative memories. In contrast to several other existing methods, the endmembers determined by the proposed ... Keywords: 87.19.lv, 87.85.dq, 93.85.Bc, 93.85.Pq, Abundance maps, Hyperspectral image analysis: endmember search, Lattice algebra: lattice independence, Lattice associative memories, Neural networks: associative memories, Spectral unmixing
Gerhard X. Ritter; Gonzalo Urcid; Mark S. Schmalz
Search and Tracking of an Unknown Number of Targets by a Team of Autonomous Agents Utilizing Time-evolving Partition Classification
Target Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Singleof Autonomous Search and Tracking . . . . . 1.2.1 Adding4 Path Planning Over Search and Tracking Partitions 4.1 Path
Wood, Jared Gregory
Autonomous aerial refueling of UAVS utilizing a vision based navigation system
The major technological obstacle to be overcome for practical and reliable autonomous probe-and-drogue aerial refueling is obtaining accurate relative position and attitude measurements during the docking phase. An integrated controller-sensor-navigation system for this task must be robust and possess good disturbance rejection properties. Previous attempts to solve this problem have used video servoing with pattern recognition algorithms and the differential Global Positioning System. This thesis seeks to determine the feasibility of autonomous aerial refueling by developing a robust docking controller and integrating it with the relative position and attitude measurements from a novel Vision-based Navigation (VisNav) sensor. VisNav accurately determines the line of sight vector between a positioning sensing diode and a target configured with multiple light emitting diode beacons. A study is conducted to determine the best number and placement of the beacons on the drogue and the best location to mount the sensor on an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV). Optimal Nonzero Set Point and optimal Command Generator Tracker controllers are developed and used to simulate six degree-of-freedom docking maneuvers using dynamical system models of a UAV and a refueling drogue. Test cases for stationary and moving drogues in atmospheric turbulence are evaluated in terms of docking position errors, control effort, control rate, and quadratic cost. Simulation results demonstrate that a Proportional Integral Filter Command Generator Tracker controller, coupled with the VisNav sensor and navigation system, provides a viable candidate solution to the autonomous aerial refueling problem. The beacon lights can be placed in the location of lights currently on the drogue, and the sensor can be placed at the base of the refueling probe on the UAV.
Kimmett, Jennifer Jones
Autonomous acquisition simulator system: a testbed for tactical image processing algorithm development
The autonomous acquisition simulator system (AAS) is a modular real time image processing system that may be used as a tool for the evaluation of artificial intelligence and image processing algorithms for application to tactical systems. The operational and system requirements for a testbed that would function as such a simulation device are summarised. The architecture of both the hardware and software designs for the AAS are described in the context of resulting data structures and computational requirements for implementing these algorithms in real time. Also included is an approach for providing a compiler level language as a highly desirable feature to facilitate the development of software for implementing new algorithms.
Mack, H.; Mathe, A.W.; Chall, L.E.; Politopoulos, A.S.; Berchtold, J.R.; Jones, T.
Regional companies eye growth
Regional companies eye growth Regional companies eye growth Adaptive Radio Technologies, Los Alamos Visualization Associates, Mesa Tech International Inc., and ThermaSun Inc. were...
REGIONAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAM MASTER Regional Issue Identification
from these Federal Region totals. Energy sources addressed were coal, nuclear, oil, oil shale, gas, geothermal, . - - - hydroelectric and solar. Six of the national laboratories,...
Author manuscript, published in "N/P" An Ontology-Based Autonomic System for Improving Data Warehouse Performances
Abstract: With the increase in the amount and complexity of information, data warehouse performance has become a constant issue, especially for decision support systems. As decisional experts are faced with the management of more complex data warehouses, a need for autonomic management capabilities is shown to help them in their work. Implementing autonomic managers over knowledge bases to manage them is a solution that we find more and more used in business intelligence environments. What we propose, as decisional system experts, is an autonomic system for analyzing and improving data warehouse cache memory allocations in a client environment. The system formalizes aspects of the knowledge involved in the process of decision making (from system hardware specifications to practices describing cache allocation) into the same knowledge base in the form of ontologies, analyzes the current performance level (such as query average response time values) and proposes new cache allocation values so that better performance is obtained.
Vlad Nicolicin-georgescu; Vincent Benatier; Remi Lehn; Henri Bri
Autonomous Pseudomonoids
Proposition 2.7 and Def- inition 2.3, so we only have to prove that ? is strong monoidal, or equivalently, that u? ?= t[j?, A] is strong monoidal. This 1-cell is isomorphic to [A, p]w as in Observation 2.15. The 1-cell [A, p]w : A? [A,A] corresponds up... Proposition 2.7 and Def- inition 2.3, so we only have to prove that ? is strong monoidal, or equivalently, that u? ?= t[j?, A] is strong monoidal. This 1-cell is isomorphic to [A, p]w as in Observation 2.15. The 1-cell [A, p]w : A? [A,A] corresponds up...
Lopez Franco, Ignacio
An autonomous long-term fast reactor system and the principal design limitations of the concept
The objectives of this dissertation were to find a principal domain of promising and technologically feasible reactor physics characteristics for a multi-purpose, modular-sized, lead-cooled, fast neutron spectrum reactor fueled with an advanced uranium-transuranic-nitride fuel and to determine the principal limitations for the design of an autonomous long-term multi-purpose fast reactor (ALM-FR) within the principal reactor physics characteristic domain. The objectives were accomplished by producing a conceptual design for an ALM-FR and by analysis of the potential ALM-FR performance characteristics. The ALM-FR design developed in this dissertation is based on the concept of a secure transportable autonomous reactor for hydrogen production (STAR-H2) and represents further refinement of the STAR-H2 concept towards an economical, proliferation-resistant, sustainable, multi-purpose nuclear energy system. The development of the ALM-FR design has been performed considering this reactor within the frame of the concept of a self-consistent nuclear energy system (SCNES) that satisfies virtually all of the requirements for future nuclear energy systems: efficient energy production, safety, self-feeding, non-proliferation, and radionuclide burning. The analysis takes into consideration a wide range of reactor design aspects including selection of technologically feasible fuels and structural materials, core configuration optimization, dynamics and safety of long-term operation on one fuel loading, and nuclear material non-proliferation. Plutonium and higher actinides are considered as essential components of an advanced fuel that maintains long-term operation. Flexibility of the ALM-FR with respect to fuel compositions is demonstrated acknowledging the principal limitations of the long-term burning of plutonium and higher actinides. To ensure consistency and accuracy, the modeling has been performed using state-of-the-art computer codes developed at Argonne National Laboratory. As a result of the computational analysis performed in this work, the ALM-FR design provides for the possibility of continuous operation during about 40 years on one fuel loading containing mixture of depleted uranium with plutonium and higher actinides. All reactor physics characteristics of the ALM-FR are kept within technological limits ensuring safety of ultra-long autonomous operation. The results obtained provide for identification of physical features of the ALM-FR that significantly influence flexibility of the design and its applications. The special emphasis is given to existing limitations on the utilization of higher actinides as a fuel component.
Tsvetkova, Galina Valeryevna
Autonomous Searching and Tracking of a River using an UAV Sivakumar Rathinam*, Pedro Almeida, ZuWhan Kim, Steven Jackson,
an exploration system that equips a fixed wing UAV to autonomously search a given area for a specified structure of the structure based on the images from the onboard sensor(could be vision or near infra-red). Experimental results with a fixed wing UAV searching and mapping the coordinates of a 2 mile stretch of a river
Kim, ZuWhan
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1: volume 1
The Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS) conference series brings together researchers from around the world to share the latest advances in the field. It was initiated in 2002 as a merger of three highly successful related events: the International ...
Michael Luck; Sandip Sen
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 3 - Volume 3: volume 3
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 2 - Volume 2: volume 2
An autonomous wireless sensor network deployment system using mobile robots for human existence detection in case of disasters
This paper presents a novel approach of using autonomous mobile robots to deploy a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) for human existence detection in case of disasters. During WSN deployment, mobile robots perform cooperative Simultaneous Localization and ... Keywords: Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), Human existence detection, Map merging, Sensor node deployment strategies, Wireless sensor networks
Gurkan Tuna, V. Cagri Gungor, Kayhan Gulez
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: Industry track: Industry track
A Real-Time, Interactive Simulation Environment for Unmanned Ground Vehicles: The Autonomous Navigation Virtual Environment Laboratory (ANVEL)
Modeling and simulation tools have become an integral part of modern engineering processes. In particular, accurate and efficient simulation tools are critical for the design, development, and testing of autonomous unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). However, ... Keywords: unmanned ground vehicles, computer games and simulation, physics-based modeling, intelligent systems, military applications
Phillip J. Durst; Christopher Goodin; Chris Cummins; Burhman Gates; Burney Mckinley; Taylor George; Mitchell M. Rohde; Matthew A. Toschlog; Justin Crawford
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: demo papers: demo papers
The AAMAS conference is the premier international forum for research in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Since its first edition in 2002, it has featured a demonstration session where live interactive demos are given. The goal of the AAMAS ...
SOLAR-POWERED AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT James Jalbert, John Baker, John Duchesney, Paul Pietryka, William Dalton
SOLAR-POWERED AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT James Jalbert, John Baker, John Duchesney in such applications. The concept of a vehicle that would allow on-station recharging of batteries, using solar cells-term or ongoing deployment is required. The Solar Powered AUV (SAUV) is designed for continuous deployment (weeks
North American Regional Reanalysis
In 1997, during the late stages of production of NCEP-NCAR Global Reanalysis (GR), exploration of a regional reanalysis project was suggested by the GR project's Advisory Committee, �particularly if the RDAS [Regional Data Assimilation System] is ...
Fedor Mesinger; Geoff DiMego; Eugenia Kalnay; Kenneth Mitchell; Perry C. Shafran; Wesley Ebisuzaki; Du�an Jovi?; Jack Woollen; Eric Rogers; Ernesto H. Berbery; Michael B. Ek; Yun Fan; Robert Grumbine; Wayne Higgins; Hong Li; Ying Lin; Geoff Manikin; David Parrish; Wei Shi
Regional hydrothermal commercialization plan
This plan for the Rocky Mountain Basin and Range Region articulates the complete range of initiatives (federal, state, local, and industrial) required for the early commercialization of the regions geothermal resources. (MHR)
Autonomous Correction of Sensor Data Applied to Building Technologies Utilizing Statistical Processing Methods
Autonomous detection and correction of potentially missing or corrupt sensor data is a essential concern in building technologies since data availability and correctness is necessary to develop accurate software models for instrumented experiments. Therefore, this paper aims to address this problem by using statistical processing methods including: (1) least squares; (2) maximum likelihood estimation; (3) segmentation averaging; and (4) threshold based techniques. Application of these validation schemes are applied to a subset of data collected from Oak Ridge National Laboratory s (ORNL) ZEBRAlliance research project, which is comprised of four single-family homes in Oak Ridge, TN outfitted with a total of 1,218 sensors. The focus of this paper is on three different types of sensor data: (1) temperature; (2) humidity; and (3) energy consumption. Simulations illustrate the threshold based statistical processing method performed best in predicting temperature, humidity, and energy data.
Castello, Charles C [ORNL; New, Joshua Ryan [ORNL
Title: Autonomous Aerial Sensors for Wind Power Meteorology- A Pre-Project
Abstract (max. 2000 char.): Autonomous Aerial Sensors, i.e. meteorological sensors mounted on Unmanned Aerial Systems UAS, can characterise the atmospheric flow in and around wind farms. We instrumented three planes, a helicopter and a lighter-than-air LTA system to fly one week together in a well-instrumented wind farm, partly with nanosynchronised sensors (time stamped with about 100 ns global accuracy). Between bankruptcy of a partner, denied overflight rights at the main test location, denied Civil Aviation Authorities permits at the alternative location, stolen planes, and crashed UAS we managed to collect data at a wind farm in Lolland and on an atmospheric campaign in France. Planning of an offshore campaign using the developed techniques is underway. ISSN 0106-2840 ISBN 978-87-550-3945-2 Contract no.:
Gregor Giebel (ed; Uwe Schmidt Paulsen; Jens Bange; La Cour-harbo; Joachim Reuder; Stephanie Mayer; Aline Van; Der Kroonenberg; John M�lgaard; Gregor Giebel; Uwe Schmidt Paulsen; Jens Bange; Anders La Cour-harbo; Joachim Reuder; Stephanie Mayer
Effect of autonomic nerve stimulants on the distribution of /sup 99m/Tc- pertechnetate
This study was performed in anticipation of an improvement of radioisotopic examination with /sup 99m/Tc-pertechnetate and of changing organ accumulation of /sup 99m/Tc-pentechnetate with administration of autonomic nerve stimulants. Changes of organ accumulation of /sup 99m/Tc-pertechnetate were followed at 15, 30, 60, 120, 180, and 300 min after administration of autonomic nerve stimulants. Using rats, the accumulation of /sup 99m/Tc-pertechnetate in the thyroid gland, parotid gland, sudmandibular gland, brain, liver, spleen, kidney, and blood were determined. An organ of highest accumulation of /sup 99m/ Tc-pertechnetate was the thyroid gland. Continuously, in the liver, kidney, parotid gland, submandibular gland, spleen, and brain, the accumulation became low and the accumulation in the blood was relatively high. In control group, the all organ accumulation of /sup 99m/Tc-pertechnetate were highest at 30 min after injection into abdominal cavity and after 120 min gradually decreased. In the group administered noradrenalin (sympathetic nerve stimulant) at 15 min before injection of /sup 99m/Tc-pertechnetate, the accumulation of the thyroid gland, brain, liver, and kidney decreased early. In the group of administered noradrenalin at 15 min before sacrificing rat, the uptake of only the brain decreased early. In the group administered vagostigmin (parasympathetic nerve stimulant) at 15 min before injection of /sup 99m/Tc-pertechnetate, accumulation of the submandibular gland, parotid gland, and kidney decreased. In contrast with these, the accumulation in the liver rose. Also in the group administered vagostigmin at 15 min before sacrificing rat, a high accumulation in the liver was also revealed and kept for relative long period. (auth)
Nakamura, J.
Western Regional Partnership Overview
Regional Partnership Overview Regional Partnership Overview June 2013 Briefing Overview WRP Background Importance of Region WRP Tribal Relations Committee WRP Energy Committee WRP Region's Uniqueness 5 states stretching from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean Diverse terrain ranging from desert valleys to forested mountains Significant State Trust Landholdings Approximately 188 Federally recognized Tribes Significant amounts of Federally managed land According to GSA 2004 study, WRP states range from 41.8% - 84.5% of total state land WRP Region's Importance to DoD Extensive Training Ranges Interconnected ground/air ranges provide unmatched warfighter training opportunities
Regional Comparisons, Spatial Aggregation,
Regional Regional Comparisons, Spatial Aggregation, and Asymmetry of Price Pass-Through in U.S. Gasoline Markets MICHAEL YE*, JOHN ZYREN**, JOANNE SHORE**, AND MICHAEL BURDETTE** Abstract Spot to retail price pass-through behavior of the U.S. gasoline market was investigated at the national and regional levels, using weekly wholesale and retail motor gasoline prices from January 2000 to the present. Asymmetric pass-through was found across all regions, with faster pass-through when prices are rising. Pass-through patterns, in terms of speed and time for completion, were found to vary from region to region. Spatial aggregation was investigated at the national level and the East Coast with the aggregated cumulative pass-through being greater than the volume-weighted regional pass-through when spot prices increase. These results are useful to the petroleum industry, consumers,
Regional Climate Information & Modeling
Information & Modeling Print E-mail The specific impacts and vulnerabilities posed by climate change are largely defined by regional differences 9in things like geography,...
Regional Education Partners
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Development of a hybrid crisp-fuzzy logic algorithm optimised by genetic algorithms for path-planning of an autonomous mobile robot
This paper deals with the problem of autonomous mobile robot navigating in unknown environments. The approach developed is reactive in a behaviour-based framework aimed at multiple obstacle avoidance. We use a novel hybrid logic integrating fuzzy and ...
C. Fayad; P. Webb
High-Resolution Topography-Following Chemical Mapping of Ocean Hypoxia by Use of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: The Santa Monica Basin Example
We report on the execution of a combined chemical sensing/high-resolution terrain-following autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) survey to explore the fine structure and functional boundaries of the Santa Monica Basin sub-oxic zone and its ...
Andreas F. Hofmann; Peter M. Walz; Hans Thomas; Edward T. Peltzer; Peter G. Brewer
A peak-capture algorithm used on an autonomous underwater vehicle in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill response scientific survey
During the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response Scientific Survey on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ship Gordon Gunter Cruise GU-10-02 (27 May�4 June 2010), a Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute autonomous underwater vehicle ...
Yanwu Zhang; Robert S. McEwen; John P. Ryan; James G. Bellingham; Hans Thomas; Charles H. Thompson; Erich Rienecker
Feasibility Study for an Autonomous UAV -Magnetometer System -- Final Report on SERDP SEED 1509:2206
Large areas across the United States are potentially contaminated with UXO, with some ranges encompassing tens to hundreds of thousands of acres. Technologies are needed which will allow for cost effective wide area scanning with 1) near 100 % coverage and 2) near 100 % detection of subsurface ordnance or features indicative of subsurface ordnance. The current approach to wide area scanning is a multi-level one, in which medium altitude fixed wing optical imaging is used for an initial site assessment. This assessment is followed with low altitude manned helicopter based magnetometry followed by surface investigations using either towed geophysical sensor arrays or man portable sensors. In order to be effective for small UXO detection, the sensing altitude for magnetic site investigations needs to be on the order of 1 � 3 meters. These altitude requirements means that manned helicopter surveys will generally only be feasible in large, open and relatively flat terrains. While such surveys are effective in mapping large areas relatively fast there are substantial mobilization/demobilization, staffing and equipment costs associated with these surveys (resulting in costs of approximately $100-$150/acre). Surface towed arrays provide high resolution maps but have other limitations, e.g. in their ability to navigate rough terrain effectively. Thus, other systems are needed allowing for effective data collection. An UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) magnetometer platform is an obvious alternative. The motivation behind such a system is that it would be safer for the operators, cheaper in initial and O&M costs, and more effective in terms of site characterization. However, while UAV data acquisition from fixed wing platforms for large (> 200 feet) stand off distances is relatively straight forward, a host of challenges exist for low stand-off distance (~ 6 feet) UAV geophysical data acquisition. The objective of SERDP SEED 1509:2006 was to identify the primary challenges associated with a low stand off distance autonomous UAV magnetometer platform and to investigate whether these challenges can be resolved successfully such that a successful UAV magnetometer platform can be constructed. The primary challenges which were identified and investigated include: 1. The feasibility of assembling a payload package which integrates magnetometers, accurate positioning systems (DGPS, height above ground measurement), obstacle avoidance systems, power infrastructure, communications and data storage as well as auxiliary flight controls 2. The availability of commercial UAV platforms with autonomous flight capability which can accommodate this payload package 3. The feasibility of integrating obstacle avoidance controls in UAV platform control 4. The feasibility of collecting high quality magnetic data in the vicinity of an UAV.
Roelof Versteeg; Mark McKay; Matt Anderson; Ross Johnson; Bob Selfridge; Jay Bennett
Generalized Region Connection Calculus
The Region Connection Calculus (RCC) is one of the most widely referenced system of high-level (qualitative) spatial reasoning. RCC assumes a continuous representation of space. This contrasts sharply with the fact that spatial information obtained from ... Keywords: (Generalized) Boolean connection algebra, (Generalized) Region Connection Calculus, Continuous space, Discrete space, Mereology, Mereotopology, Qualitative spatial reasoning
Sanjiang Li; Mingsheng Ying
Long-Term, Autonomous Measurement of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Using an Ormosil Nanocomposite-Based Optical Sensor
The goal of this project is to construct a prototype carbon dioxide sensor that can be commercialized to offer a low-cost, autonomous instrument for long-term, unattended measurements. Currently, a cost-effective CO2 sensor system is not available that can perform cross-platform measurements (ground-based or airborne platforms such as balloon and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)) for understanding the carbon sequestration phenomenon. The CO2 sensor would support the research objectives of DOE-sponsored programs such as AmeriFlux and the North American Carbon Program (NACP). Global energy consumption is projected to rise 60% over the next 20 years and use of oil is projected to increase by approximately 40%. The combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas has increased carbon emissions globally from 1.6 billion tons in 1950 to 6.3 billion tons in 2000. This figure is expected to reach 10 billon tons by 2020. It is important to understand the fate of this excess CO2 in the global carbon cycle. The overall goal of the project is to develop an accurate and reliable optical sensor for monitoring carbon dioxide autonomously at least for one year at a point remote from the actual CO2 release site. In Phase I of this project, InnoSense LLC (ISL) demonstrated the feasibility of an ormosil-monolith based Autonomous Sensor for Atmospheric CO2 (ASAC) device. All of the Phase I objectives were successfully met.
Kisholoy Goswami
Non-autonomous stochastic evolution equations and applications to stochastic partial differential equations
In this paper we study the following non-autonomous stochastic evolution equation on a UMD Banach space $E$ with type 2, \\begin{equation}\\label{eq:SEab}\\tag{SE} {\\begin{aligned} dU(t) & = (A(t)U(t) + F(t,U(t))) dt + B(t,U(t)) dW_H(t), \\quad t\\in [0,T], U(0) & = u_0. \\end{aligned}. \\end{equation} Here $(A(t))_{t\\in [0,T]}$ are unbounded operators with domains $(D(A(t)))_{t\\in [0,T]}$ which may be time dependent. We assume that $(A(t))_{t\\in [0,T]}$ satisfies the conditions of Acquistapace and Terreni. The functions $F$ and $B$ are nonlinear functions defined on certain interpolation spaces and $u_0\\in E$ is the initial value. $W_H$ is a cylindrical Brownian motion on a separable Hilbert space $H$. Under Lipschitz and linear growth conditions we show that there exists a unique mild solution of \\eqref{eq:SEab}. Under assumptions on the interpolation spaces we extend the factorization method of Da Prato, Kwapie\\'n, and Zabczyk, to obtain space-time regularity results for the solution $U$ of \\eqref{eq:SEab...
Veraar, Mark
Response Relationship Between Juvenile Salmon and an Autonomous Sensor in Turbulent Flows
Juvenile fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawythscha) and an autonomous sensor device (Sensor Fish) were exposed to turbulent shear flows in order to determine how hydraulic conditions effected fish injury response. Studies were designed to establish correlation metrics between Sensor Fish device measurements and live fish injuries by conducting concurrent releases in a range of turbulent shear flows. Comparisons were made for two exposure scenarios. In the fast-fish-to-slow-water scenario, test fish were carried by the fast-moving water of a submerged turbulent jet and exposed into the standing water of a flume. In the slow-fish-to-fast-water scenario, test fish were introduced into a turbulent jet from standing water through an introduction tube placed just outside the edge of the jet. Motion-tracking analysis was performed on high-speed, high-resolution digital videos of all the releases at water jet velocities ranging from 3 to 22.9 m � s?1. Velocities of the Sensor Fish were very similar to those of live fish, but maximum accelerations of live fish were larger than those by Sensor Fish for all the nozzle velocities of both cenarios. A 10% probability of major injury threshold was found to occur at sensor fish accelerations of 513 and 260 (m � s?2) for the fast-fish-to-slow-water and slow-fish-to-fast-water scenarios, respectively. The findings provide a linkage between laboratory experiments of fish injury, field survival studies, and numerical modeling.
Richmond, Marshall C.; Deng, Zhiqun; McKinstry, Craig A.; Mueller, Robert P.; Carlson, Thomas J.; Dauble, Dennis D.
Risk-based Inspection Scheduling Planning for Intelligent Agent in the Autonomous Fault Management
This paper developed an autonomous fault management focusing to the inspection scheduling planning which was implemented to the advanced small nuclear reactor without on-site refuelling to assure the safety without human intervention. The inspection scheduling planning was developed optimally on the risk-based approach compromising between two important constraints related to the risk of action planning as such failure probability and shortest path. Performance was represented using computer simulation implemented to the DURESS components location and failure probability. It could be concluded that the first priority to be inspected was flow sensor FB2 which had the largest comparation value of 0.104233 comparing with the other components. The next route would be visited were sequentially FB1, FA2, FA1, FB, FA, VB, pump B, VA, pump A, VB2, VB1, VA2, VA1, reservoir 2, reservoir 1, FR2, and FR1. The movement route planning could be transferred to activate the robot arm which reflected as intelligent agent.
Hari Nugroho, Djoko; Sudarno [Center for Reactor Technology and Nuclear Safety-BATAN, Indonesia Building no 80 PUSPIPTEK Area, Serpong (Indonesia)
the Regional Development Corporation
carry out this work, CPO partners carry out this work, CPO partners with the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation for education, the Regional Development Corporation for economic development, and the regional United Way organizations for community giving. Education Los Alamos National Security (LANS) invests more than $1 million each year to enhance regional educational opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. Education Focus Areas Our education commitments address four focus areas: * Workforce Development * Student Internships * Teacher and Faculty Professional Development * Public Understanding of Science In 2011, more than 1,100 students
Regional Planning | Data.gov
Regional Planning Regional Planning Ocean Data Tools Technical Guide Map Gallery Regional Planning Feedback Ocean You are here Data.gov » Communities » Ocean Regional Planning Efforts Alias (field_alias) Apply California, Oregon, Washington Regional Ocean Partnership West Coast Governors' Alliance Regional Data Portal In Development U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico Regional Ocean Partnership U.S. Caribbean Regional Ocean Partnership-currently being formally established Regional Data Portal To be developed Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina Regional Ocean Partnership Governors' South Atlantic Alliance Regional Data Portal Currently in development American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Palau
Regional Competitions - EERE Commercialization Office
Regional Competitions. Six Regional Clean Energy Business Plan Competitions are taking place across the country� representing all of the United ...
Regional and Global Data
Products > Regional/Global Products > Regional/Global Regional and Global Data Biogeochemical Dynamics Data Regional and global biogeochemical dynamics data can be used to improve our understanding of the structure and function of various ecosystems; to enable prediction across spatial and temporal scales; and to parameterize and validate terrestrial ecosystem models. The ORNL DAAC compiles, archives, and distributes more than 150 products from the following projects: Climate Collections Hydroclimatology Collections ISLSCP II Project Net Primary Productivity (NPP) River Discharge (RIVDIS) Russian Land Cover (RLC) Soil Collections Vegetation Collections Vegetation-Ecosystem Modeling (VEMAP) Climate Collections Climate collections include measured and modeled values for variables such as temperature, precipitation, humidity, radiation, wind velocity, and
Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships
Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Review Meeting October 12-14, 2005 Table of Contents Agenda PDF-1438KB Phase I Program Review Meeting Phase II Kick-Off Meeting Phase...
Regional Climate Research
The Workshop on Regional Climate Research: Needs and Opportunities was held 2�4 April 2001 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado. The workshop was cosponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Department of ...
L. Ruby Leung; Linda O. Mearns; Filippo Giorgi; Robert L. Wilby
Sections / Geographical Regions Information
AOCS Sections provide a local forum for fats and oils professionals. Building a Stronger Global Association Sections / Geographical Regions Information Divisions achievement agricultural analytical application award awards biotechnology detergents
is a series of six region-specific adaptation tools for the coastal communities in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, and Papua New Guinea....
Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions from Centrally Planned Asia
Centrally Planned Asia map Trends Centrally Planned Asia (CPA) includes Vietnam, North Korea (officially Democratic People's Republic of Korea), and Mongolia, but regional...
Autonomous Optical Sensor System for the Monitoring of Nitrogen Dioxide from Aging Rocket Propellant
An optical sensor system has been developed for the autonomous monitoring of NO{sub 2} evolution in energetic material aging studies. The system is minimally invasive, requiring only the presence of a small sensor film within the aging chamber. The sensor material is a perylene/PMMA film that is excited by a blue LED light source and the fluorescence detected with a CCD spectrometer. Detection of NO{sub 2} gas is done remotely through the glass window of the aging chamber. Irreversible reaction of NO{sub 2} with perylene, producing the non-fluorescent nitroperylene, provides the optical sensing scheme. The rate of fluorescence intensity loss over time can be modeled using a numerical solution to the coupled diffusion and a nonlinear chemical reaction problem to evaluate NO{sub 2} concentration levels. The light source, spectrometer, spectral acquisition, and data processing were controlled through a Labivew program run by a laptop PC. Due to the long times involved with materials aging studies the system was designed to turn on, warm up, acquire data, power itself off, then recycle at a specific time interval. This allowed the monitoring of aging HE material over the period of several weeks with minimal power consumption and stable LED light output. Despite inherent problems with gas leakage of the aging chamber they were able to test the sensor system in the field under an accelerated aging study of rocket propellant. They found that the propellant evolved NO{sub 2} at a rate that yielded a concentration of between 10 and 100 ppm. The sensor system further revealed that the propellant, over an aging period of 25 days, evolves NO{sub 2} with cyclic behavior between active and dormant periods.
Regional Retail Gasoline Prices
7 7 Notes: Retail gasoline prices, like those for distillate fuels, have hit record prices nationally and in several regions this year. The national average regular gasoline price peaked at $1.68 per gallon in mid-June, but quickly declined, and now stands at $1.45, 17 cents higher than a year ago. Two regions, in particular, experienced sharp gasoline price runups this year. California, which often has some of the highest prices in the nation, saw prices peak near $1.85 in mid-September, while the Midwest had average prices over $1.87 in mid-June. Local prices at some stations in both areas hit levels well over $2.00 per gallon. The reasons for the regional price runups differed significantly. In the Midwest, the introduction of Phase 2 RFG was hampered by low stocks,
regional | OpenEI
regional regional Dataset Summary Description The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) releases annual statistics on domestic and industrial/commercial electricity and gas consumption (and number of meters) at the Middle Layer Super Output Authority (MLSOA) and Intermediate Geography Zone (IGZ) level (there are over 950 of these subregions throughout England, Scotland and Wales). Both MLSOAs (England and Wales) and IGZs (Scotland) include a minimum of approximately 2,000 households. Source UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Date Released March 01st, 2008 (6 years ago) Date Updated Unknown Keywords Electricity Consumption gas regional UK Data application/zip icon Guidance document for interpreting data (zip, 1.2 MiB) application/vnd.ms-excel icon Excel file: 2005 MLSOA and IGZ gas and electricity (xls, 10 MiB)
Establishing Regional Resource Centers
Wind Powering America (EERE)
Establishing Regional Resource Centers Establishing Regional Resource Centers July 25, 2013 Coordinator: Welcome and thank you for standing by. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. To ask a question later during the question and answer session please press star then 1 on your touchtone phone. Today's conference is being recorded. If you have any objections you may disconnect. And I would like to turn it over to Mr. Jonathan Bartlett. Sir, you may begin. Jonathan Bartlett: Thank you very much. This is Jonathan Bartlett from the Department of Energy's Wind and Water Power Technologies Office. Today's WPA Webinar will be on the subject of establishing regional resource centers. I will be joined by Ian Baring-Gould at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the
New, efficient regional architecture
Recent trends in the design of solar homes are discussed with particular emphasis on the particular climate in which the house will be located. Regional climatic conditions will effect design strategies including insulation, ventilation, shading, site planning, window area, etc. The important effects of local climate have been established over the past 5 years. Sources of information concerning solar architecture are cited.
Stains, L.R.
Remote Environmental Monitoring Units: An Autonomous Vehicle for Characterizing Coastal Environments
In oceanography, there has been a growing emphasis on coastal regions, partially because of their inherent complexity, as well as the increasing acknowledgment of anthropogenic impacts. To improve understanding and characterization of coastal ...
Mark A. Moline; Shelley M. Blackwell; Chris von Alt; Ben Allen; Thomas Austin; James Case; Ned Forrester; Robert Goldsborough; Mike Purcell; Roger Stokey
NETL: Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships
RCSP Carbon Storage Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships In 2003, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded cooperative agreements to seven Regional Carbon Sequestration...
Regional Opportunities in New Mexico
Regional Opportunities in New Mexico Regional Opportunities in New Mexico The Richard P. Feynman Center for Innovation (FCI) facilitates a number of programs designed to stimulate...
Interaction Region Papers
IR (Interaction Region) Magnets with Ramesh Gupta IR (Interaction Region) Magnets with Ramesh Gupta as the major author (unless noted): R. Gupta, et. al, "React & Wind Nb3Sn Common Coil Dipole", ASC 2006, August 27- September 1, 2006 in Seattle, WA, USA . *** Click Here for Talk ***. R. Gupta, "Modular Design and Modular Program for High Gradient Quadrupoles", ASC 2006, August 27- September 1, 2006 in Seattle, WA, USA. *** Click Here for Poster ***. Racetrack Magnet Designs and Technologies, WAMDO@CERN, April 2-6, 2006 (Click here for the oral presentation). R. Gupta, et. al, "Optimization of Open Midplane Dipole Design for LHC IR Upgrade," Presented at the 2005 Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA (2005). *** Click Here for Poster *** R. Gupta, et al., Open Midplane Dipole Design for LHC IR
Regional University Alliance
Alliance Alliance Developed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory in collaboration with NETL-Regional University Alliance WVU National Research Center for Coal and Energy Fossil Consulting Services, Inc. The AVESTAR(tm) Center provides a state-of- the-art, highly realistic, dynamic simulator for a coal-fired power plant using Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) technology with CO 2 capture. The system is based on Invensys' DYNSIM ® software
Regional Reserve Margins
This report explores the status of reserve margins across the country. Reserve margins represent the margin of excess capacity compared to demand. It is commonly calculated as the fraction of unused capacity during the summer peak. Simple in concept, the numbers can be difficult to calculate because of changes in geographic boundaries between regions, different views of what capacity qualifies to be counted, and changes in estimates of demand. This report provides a comprehensive and consistently calcula...
EPRI Regional Haze Research
During the last decade, EPRI has investigated ways to improve the scientific basis for various steps required under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (US EPA's) 1999 Regional Haze Regulations (RHR). Those regulations require mitigating visibility impairment in mandatory Class I areaslarger national parks and wilderness areasattributable to manmade air pollution by 2064. Several technical issues have arisen while interpreting the implementation process of the RHR. This report describes EPRI and o...
Regional Summary Gulf of Mexico Region Management Context
Regional Summary Gulf of Mexico Region Management Context The Gulf of Mexico Region includes by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (GMFMC) and NOAA Fisheries (NMFS) under eight fishery in conjunction with the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC). Gulf of Mexico Region FMPs 1. Red Drum
Geothermal Regions | Open Energy Information
Regions Regions Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home Geothermal Regions RegionsMap2012.jpg Geothermal regions were outlined for the western United States (including Alaska and Hawaii) to identify geothermal areas, projects, and exploration trends for each region. These regions were developed based on the USGS physiographic regions (U.S. Geological Survey), and then adjusted to fit geothermal exploration parameters such as differences in geologic regime, structure, heat source, surface effects (weather, vegetation patterns, groundwater flow), and other relevant factors. The 21 regions can be seen outlined in red and overlain on the 2008 USGS Geothermal Favorability Map in Figure 1.[1] Add a new Geothermal Region List of Regions Area (km2) Mean MW
Pennsylvania Regional Infrastructure Project
CTC Team CTC Team 1 Pennsylvania Regional Infrastructure Project Presentation by: The Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) Team January 6, 2004 The CTC Team 2 Presentation Outline Introduction of CTC Team CTC Background Technical Approach - CTC Team Member Presentations Conclusions The CTC Team 3 The CTC Project Team Concurrent Technologies Corporation Program Management and Coordination Hydrogen Delivery and Storage Material Development Hydrogen Sensors Concurrent Technologies Corporation Program Management and Coordination Hydrogen Delivery and Storage Material Development Hydrogen Sensors Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Hydrogen Separation Hydrogen Sensors Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Hydrogen Separation Hydrogen Sensors Resource Dynamics Corp. Tradeoff Analyses of Hydrogen
Sierra Nevada Region
Sierra Nevada Region Sierra Nevada Region Power Revenue Requirement Forecast FY 2014 - FY 2017 Expenses Revenues Expenses Revenues Expenses Revenues Expenses Revenues Expenses Revenues O&M Expense: /1 Reclamation $41,172,013 $43,590,771 $45,797,325 $47,108,786 $49,408,075 Western $56,601,261 $58,299,299 $60,048,278 $61,849,726 $63,705,218 Total O&M Expense $97,773,274 $101,890,070 $105,845,603 $108,958,512 $113,113,292 Purchase Power Expense: Custom Product & Suppl. Power /2 $211,016,136 $211,016,136 $215,236,459 $215,236,459 $219,541,188 $219,541,188 $223,932,012 $223,932,012 $228,410,652 $228,410,652 HBA Costs /3 $2,310,408 $2,379,720 $2,451,112 $2,524,645 $2,600,385 Purchases for Project Use /4 $1,025,800 $0 $0 $0 $0 Washoe Cost for BR $471,500 $471,500 $471,500 $194,000 $194,000 Total Purchase Power
Appendix K: Regional Definitions
K K Regional Definitions The six basic country groupings used in this report (Figure K1) are defined as follows: *OECD (18 percent of the 2008 world population): North America-United States, Canada, and Mexico; OECD Europe-Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxem- bourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. OECD Asia-Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. *Non-OECD (82 percent of the 2008 world popula- tion): - Non-OECD Europe and Eurasia (5 percent of the 2008 world population)-Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia,
CYCLOPS: A mobile robotic platform for testing and validating image processing and autonomous navigation algorithms in support of artificial vision prostheses
While artificial vision prostheses are quickly becoming a reality, actual testing time with visual prosthesis carriers is at a premium. Moreover, it is helpful to have a more realistic functional approximation of a blind subject. Instead of a normal ... Keywords: Artificial vision prostheses, Autonomous navigation, Cloud computing, Image processing, Retinal implants, Robotics, Self-commanding, Tele-commanding, Worldwide accessibility
Wolfgang Fink; Mark A. Tarbell
Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships | Department of Energy
Science & Innovation Carbon Capture and Storage Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships DOE's Regional Carbon Sequestration...
A Critical Review of the State-of-the-Art in Autonomous Land Vehicle Systems and Technology
This report describes the current state-of-the-art in Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV) systems and technology. Five functional technology areas are identified and addressed. For each a brief, subjective, preface is first provided which envisions the necessary technology for the deployment of an operational ALV system. Subsequently, a detailed literature review is provided to support and elaborate these views. It is further established how these five technology areas fit together as a functioning whole. The essential conclusion of this report is that the necessary sensors, algorithms and methods to develop and demonstrate an operationally viable all-terrain ALV already exist and could be readily deployed. A second conclusion is that the successful development of an operational ALV system will rely on an effective approach to systems engineering. In particular, a precise description of mission requirements and a clear definition of component functionality is essential.
Regional air quality in the Four Corners study region
The body of information presented in this paper is directed to policy makers, regulators, and energy planners concerned with the effect of energy development and alternative regulatory policies on regional air quality in the Four Corners Study Region. This study was one of 5 regional studies conducted for the National Commission on Air Quality (NCAQ). Potential regional air quality impacts were evaluated out to the year 1995 for alternative energy scenarios under current and alternative regulatory policies. Highlights of the results from the regional air quality analysis are discussed in this paper.
Nochumson, D.H.
Stations in Special Wind Regions
Stations in Special Wind Regions. ... station_matrix_912850.xlsx (Excel file). [ SED Home | Extreme Winds Home | Previous | Next ] ...
Regional business cycles in Italy
There is clear evidence for differences in the structure of the Italian regional business cycle in the period 1951-2004: the relationship with the national business cycle is closer in the North than in the South. The interaction between regional cycles ... Keywords: Regional business cycles, Spectral analysis, Stylized facts
Camilla Mastromarco; Ulrich Woitek
Regional Partnerships | Department of Energy
Regional Regional Partnerships Regional Partnerships DOE's Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Program DOE has created a network of seven Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSPs) to help develop the technology, infrastructure, and regulations to implement large-scale CO2 storage (also called carbon sequestration) in different regions and geologic formations within the Nation. Collectively, the seven RCSPs represent regions encompassing: 97 percent of coal-fired CO2 emissions; 97 percent of industrial CO2 emissions; 96 percent of the total land mass; and essentially all the geologic sequestration sites in the U.S. potentially available for carbon storage. We launched this initiative in 2003. It's being completed in phases (I, II, and III) and forms the centerpiece of national efforts to develop the
Appendix B Sierra Nevada Region Customer Groups and Economic Regions
A- Not available electronically. A- Not available electronically. Appendix B Sierra Nevada Region Customer Groups and Economic Regions The list included in this appendix shows the Sierra Nevada Region customers with contracts expiring in the year 2004. The list indicates which customer group each customer is considered a part of for purposes of analysis. The list also shows which economic region each customer is located in. Some customers are not included in a subregion of the central and northern California region. Further discussion of the economic regions is included in Section 4.9.4 and in Appendix L. Appendix C Renewable Technology Cost Information Matrix The development of the renewable technology matrix (RTM) was undertaken to determine the primary cost and performance characteristics of renewable technologies in
CDKN-CARICOM-A Regional Implementation Plan for CARICOM's Regional
CARICOM-A Regional Implementation Plan for CARICOM's Regional CARICOM-A Regional Implementation Plan for CARICOM's Regional Climate Change Resilience Framework Jump to: navigation, search Name CDKN-CARICOM-A Regional Implementation Plan for CARICOM's Regional Climate Change Resilience Framework Agency/Company /Organization Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), United Kingdom Department for International Development Partner Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), Caribbean Community Heads of State (CARICOM) Sector Climate, Energy, Land Topics Background analysis, Market analysis, Pathways analysis Website http://cdkn.org/project/planni Program Start 2010 Country Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Category:Geothermal Regions | Open Energy Information
Geothermalpower.jpg Geothermalpower.jpg Looking for the Geothermal Regions page? For detailed information on Geothermal Regions, click here. Category:Geothermal Regions Add.png Add a new Geothermal Region Pages in category "Geothermal Regions" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. A Alaska Geothermal Region C Cascades Geothermal Region Central Nevada Seismic Zone Geothermal Region G Gulf of California Rift Zone Geothermal Region H Hawaii Geothermal Region Holocene Magmatic Geothermal Region I Idaho Batholith Geothermal Region N Northern Basin and Range Geothermal Region N cont. Northern Rockies Geothermal Region Northwest Basin and Range Geothermal Region O Outside a Geothermal Region R Rio Grande Rift Geothermal Region S San Andreas Geothermal Region San Andreas Split Geothermal Region
Conservation Regional Conservation SavingsRegional Conservation Savings
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Regional GHG Emissions Stat s Greenhouse Gas and the Regional
6/5/2013 1 Regional GHG Emissions Stat s Greenhouse Gas and the Regional Power System Symposium.6% Coal 42% Hydro, 68.0% 10 #12;6/5/2013 6 Overall GHG Emissions: PNW vs. US Total US Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector (2011) Total PNW* Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector (2010
Regional GHG Emissions O tlook Greenhouse Gas and the Regional
6/5/2013 1 Regional GHG Emissions O tlook Greenhouse Gas and the Regional Power System Symposium Natural Gas Prices 6. Potential Federal CO2 regulatory cost policy Two basic CO2 Cost 10 20 30 40 Million Generation Coal 19 % 15 % 13 % Natural Gas 10 % 10 % 14 % Wind & Other Renewables 8 % 12 % 13 % Emission
Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership
Carbon Sequestration Partnership Presented to: Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Annual Review Meeting Development Phase Field Tests Pittsburgh, PA October 5, 2010...
The six regional winners received $100,000 in DOE prize money and a chance to compete for a National Grand Prize at a competition held in Washington, ...
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Mexico Regional Opportunities in New Mexico The Technology Transfer Division facilitates a number of programs designed to stimulate high-tech start-ups and other company creation,...
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Figure 1. Census Regions and Divisions
US Federal Region Map US Federal Region Map US Federal Regions/> Region 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont Region 2 New Jersey, New York Region 3 Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia Region 4 Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee Region 5 Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin Region 6 Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas Region 7 Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska Region 8 Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming Region 9 Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada Region 10 Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington Source: Energy Information Administration, Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels.
Regional Systems Development for Geothermal Energy Resources Pacific Region
Systems Development for Geothermal Energy Resources Pacific Region Systems Development for Geothermal Energy Resources Pacific Region (California and Hawaii). Task 3: water resources evaluation. Topical report Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home Report: Regional Systems Development for Geothermal Energy Resources Pacific Region (California and Hawaii). Task 3: water resources evaluation. Topical report Details Activities (1) Areas (1) Regions (0) Abstract: The fundamental objective of the water resources analysis was to assess the availability of surface and ground water for potential use as power plant make-up water in the major geothermal areas of California. The analysis was concentrated on identifying the major sources of surface and ground water, potential limitations on the usage of this water, and the
Golden State Baotou Renewable Energy Ltd | Open Energy Information
Baotou Renewable Energy Ltd Baotou Renewable Energy Ltd Jump to: navigation, search Name Golden State (Baotou) Renewable Energy Ltd Place Baotou, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Wind energy Product A wind project developer. Coordinates 40.659069°, 109.816322° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":40.659069,"lon":109.816322,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
Huade County Daditaihong Wind Power Co Ltd | Open Energy Information
Huade County Daditaihong Wind Power Co Ltd Huade County Daditaihong Wind Power Co Ltd Jump to: navigation, search Name Huade County Daditaihong Wind Power Co Ltd Place Huade, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Sector Wind energy Product Huade-based wind project developer. Coordinates 41.876808°, 114.007317° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":41.876808,"lon":114.007317,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
Property:GeothermalRegion | Open Energy Information
Property Name GeothermalRegion Property Name GeothermalRegion Property Type Page Pages using the property "GeothermalRegion" Showing 25 pages using this property. (previous 25) (next 25) A Abraham Hot Springs Geothermal Area + Northern Basin and Range Geothermal Region + Adak Geothermal Area + Alaska Geothermal Region + Aidlin Geothermal Facility + Holocene Magmatic Geothermal Region + Akun Strait Geothermal Area + Alaska Geothermal Region + Akutan Fumaroles Geothermal Area + Alaska Geothermal Region + Akutan Geothermal Project + Alaska Geothermal Region + Alum Geothermal Area + Walker-Lane Transition Zone Geothermal Region + Alum Geothermal Project + Walker-Lane Transition Zone Geothermal Region + Alvord Hot Springs Geothermal Area + Northwest Basin and Range Geothermal Region +
Holocene Magmatic Geothermal Region | Open Energy Information
Holocene Magmatic Geothermal Region (Redirected from Holocene Magmatic) Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home Holocene Magmatic Geothermal Region Details...
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interconnect region | OpenEI
interconnect region interconnect region Dataset Summary Description Datasets are for the US electricity grid system interconnect regions (ASCC, FRCC, HICC, MRO, NPCC, RFC, SERC, SPP, TRE, WECC) for 2008. The data is provided in life cycle inventory (LCI) forms (both xls and xml). A module report and a detailed spreadsheet are also included. Source US Life Cycle Inventory Database Date Released May 01st, 2011 (3 years ago) Date Updated Unknown Keywords ASCC FRCC HICC interconnect region LCI life cycle inventory MRO NPCC RFC SERC SPP TRE unit process US utilities WECC Data application/zip icon interconnect_lci_datasets_2008.zip (zip, 6.3 MiB) Quality Metrics Level of Review Some Review Comment Temporal and Spatial Coverage Frequency Time Period License License Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL)
Urban and Regional Air Quality
equipment equipment Urban and Regional Air Quality Research in this area is concerned with regional air quality issues such as: Controlling nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds, to manage tropospheric ozone pollution. Hazardous air pollutants: using science to base standards on rigorously studied risks. Air quality and climate: how does climate influence air quality at a regional or local level? Current modeling practices often do not capture variations in pollutants such as ozone-they represent a limited sample of the diverse meteorology and human behavior that affect air pollution. Improved modeling of regional air quality will help understand variability, reveal patterns of behavior, and pollutant transport issues. Controlled experiments in lab and field can help validate improved models.
Third Northeast Regional Operational Workshop
The Third Northeast Regional Operational Workshop, focusing on hydrometeorology in the northeastern United States, was held 6-7 November 2001 in Albany, New York. Sessions covered cold season events, warm season events, modeling,and operational ...
Eugene P. Auciello
Regional Groundwater Evapotranspiration in Illinois
The role of shallow unconfined aquifers in supplying water for evapotranspiration (i.e., groundwater evaporation) is investigated in this paper. Recent results from regional land surface modeling have indicated that in shallow water table areas, ...
Pat J-F. Yeh; J. S. Famiglietti
Performance of NMC's Regional Models
This paper details the performance characteristics of the two regional dynamical models used at the National Meteorological Center to forecast for North America. Strengths and weaknesses of these models�the limited-area fine-mesh (LFM) model and ...
Norman W. Junker; James E. Hoke; Richard H. Grumm
State and Regional Biomass Partnerships
The Northeast Regional Biomass Program successfully employed a three pronged approach to build the regional capacity, networks, and reliable information needed to advance biomass and bioenergy technologies and markets. The approach included support for state-based, multi-agency biomass working groups; direct technical assistance to states and private developers; and extensive networking and partnership-building activities to share objective information and best practices.
Handley, Rick; Stubbs, Anne D.
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1 What is the impact of bioenergy deployment on land use and associated emissions? We have examined the interplay between bioenergy and indirect landuse emissions in the context of climate stabilization in a recent
Presented Allison Thomson; Marshall Wise; Kate Calvin; Allison Thomson; Leon Clarke; Ben Bond; Ron S; Steve Smith; Tony Janetos; Jae Edmonds; Global Regions
Seasonal variations of aerosol optical properties, vertical distribution and associated radiative effects in the Yangtze Delta Region of China
Four years of columnar aerosol particle optical properties (2006 to 2009) and one year database worth of aerosol particle vertical profile of 527 nm extinction coefficient (June 2008 to May 2009) are analyzed at Taihu in the central Yangtze Delta region in eastern China. Seasonal variations of aerosol optical properties, vertical distribution, and influence on shortwave radiation and heating rates were investigated. Multiyear variations of aerosol optical depths (AOD), Angstrom exponents, single scattering albedo (SSA) and asymmetry factor (ASY) are analyzed, together with the vertical profile of aerosol extinction. AOD is largest in summer and smallest in winter. SSAs exhibit weak seasonal variation with the smallest values occurring during winter and the largest during summer. The vast majority of aerosol particles are below 2 km, and about 62%, 67%, 67% and 83% are confined to below 1 km in spring, summer, autumn and winter, respectively. Five-day back trajectory analyses show that the some aerosols aloft are traced back to northern/northwestern China, as far as Mongolia and Siberia, in spring, autumn and winter. The presence of dust aerosols were identified based on the linear depolarization measurements together with other information (i.e., back trajectory, precipitation, aerosol index). Dust strongly impacts the vertical particle distribution in spring and autumn, with much smaller effects in winter. The annual mean aerosol direct shortwave radiative forcing (efficiency) at the bottom, top and within the atmosphere are -34.8 {+-} 9.1 (-54.4 {+-} 5.3), -8.2 {+-} 4.8 (-13.1 {+-} 1.5) and 26.7 {+-} 9.4 (41.3 {+-} 4.6) W/m{sup 2} (Wm{sup -2} T{sup -1}), respectively. The mean reduction in direct and diffuse radiation reaching surface amount to 109.2 {+-} 49.4 and 66.8 {+-} 33.3 W/m{sup 2}, respectively. Aerosols significantly alter the vertical profile of solar heating, with great implications for atmospheric stability and dynamics within the lower troposphere.
Liu, Jianjun; Zheng, Youfei; Li, Zhanqing; Flynn, Connor J.; Cribb, Maureen
Use of an Autonomous Sensor to Evaluate the Biological Performance of the Advanced Turbine at Wanapum Dam
Hydropower is the largest renewable energy resource in the world and the United States. However, Hydropower dams have adverse ecological impacts because migrating fish may be injured or killed when they pass through hydro turbines. In the Columbia and Snake River basins, dam operators and engineers are required to make these hydroelectric facilities more fish-friendly through changes in hydro-turbine design and operation after fish population declines and the subsequent listing of several species of Pacific salmon in the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Grant County Public Utility District (Grant PUD) requested authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to replace the 10 turbines at Wanapum Dam with advanced hydropower turbines that are designed to improve survival for fish passing through the turbines while improving operation efficiency and increasing power generation. The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy provided co-funding to Grant PUD for aspects of performance testing that supported the application. As an additional measure to the primary evaluation measure of direct injury and mortality rates of juvenile Chinook salmon using balloon tag-recapture methodology, this study used an autonomous sensor device to provide insight into the specific hydraulic conditions or physical stresses that the fish experienced or the specific causes of the biological response. We found that the new blade shape and the corresponding reduction of turbulence in the advanced hydropower turbine were effective. The frequency of severe events based on Sensor Fish pressure and acceleration measurements showed trends similar to those of fish survival determined by balloon tag-recapture tests. In addition, the new turbine provided a better pressure and rate of change environment for fish passage. Overall, the Sensor Fish data indicated that the advanced hydro turbine design met the desired fish passage goals for Wanapum Dam.
Deng, Zhiqun; Carlson, Thomas J.; Duncan, Joanne P.; Richmond, Marshall C.; Dauble, Dennis D.
Regional Transmission Projects: Finding Solutions
The Keystone Center convened and facilitated a year-long Dialogue on "Regional Transmission Projects: Finding Solutions" to develop recommendations that will help address the difficult and contentious issues related to expansions of regional electric transmission systems that are needed for reliable and economic transmission of power within and across regions. This effort brought together a cross-section of affected stakeholders and thought leaders to address the problem with the collective wisdom of their experience and interests. Transmission owners sat at the table with consumer advocates and environmental organizations. Representatives from regional transmission organizations exchanged ideas with state and federal regulators. Generation developers explored common interests with public power suppliers. Together, the Dialogue participants developed consensus solutions about how to begin unraveling some of the more intractable issues surrounding identification of need, allocation of costs, and reaching consensus on siting issues that can frustrate the development of regional transmission infrastructure. The recommendations fall into three broad categories: 1. Recommendations on appropriate institutional arrangements and processes for achieving regional consensus on the need for new or expanded transmission infrastructure 2. Recommendations on the process for siting of transmission lines 3. Recommendations on the tools needed to support regional planning, cost allocation, and siting efforts. List of Dialogue participants: List of Dialogue Participants: American Electric Power American Transmission Company American Wind Energy Association California ISO Calpine Corporation Cinergy Edison Electric Institute Environmental Defense Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Great River Energy International Transmission Company ISO-New England Iowa Public Utility Board Kanner & Associates Midwest ISO National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates National Grid Northeast Utilities PA Office of Consumer Advocates Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission PJM Interconnection The Electricity Consumers Resource Council U.S. Department of Energy US Department of the Interior Van Ness Feldman Western Interstate Energy Board Wind on the Wires Wisconsin Public Service Commission Xcel Energy
The Keystone Center
Hierarchical probabilistic regionalization of volcanism for Sengan region, Japan.
A 1 km square regular grid system created on the Universal Transverse Mercator zone 54 projected coordinate system is used to work with volcanism related data for Sengan region. The following geologic variables were determined as the most important for identifying volcanism: geothermal gradient, groundwater temperature, heat discharge, groundwater pH value, presence of volcanic rocks and presence of hydrothermal alteration. Data available for each of these important geologic variables were used to perform directional variogram modeling and kriging to estimate geologic variable vectors at each of the 23949 centers of the chosen 1 km cell grid system. Cluster analysis was performed on the 23949 complete variable vectors to classify each center of 1 km cell into one of five different statistically homogeneous groups with respect to potential volcanism spanning from lowest possible volcanism to highest possible volcanism with increasing group number. A discriminant analysis incorporating Bayes theorem was performed to construct maps showing the probability of group membership for each of the volcanism groups. The said maps showed good comparisons with the recorded locations of volcanism within the Sengan region. No volcanic data were found to exist in the group 1 region. The high probability areas within group 1 have the chance of being the no volcanism region. Entropy of classification is calculated to assess the uncertainty of the allocation process of each 1 km cell center location based on the calculated probabilities. The recorded volcanism data are also plotted on the entropy map to examine the uncertainty level of the estimations at the locations where volcanism exists. The volcanic data cell locations that are in the high volcanism regions (groups 4 and 5) showed relatively low mapping estimation uncertainty. On the other hand, the volcanic data cell locations that are in the low volcanism region (group 2) showed relatively high mapping estimation uncertainty. The volcanic data cell locations that are in the medium volcanism region (group 3) showed relatively moderate mapping estimation uncertainty. Areas of high uncertainty provide locations where additional site characterization resources can be spent most effectively. The new data collected can be added to the existing database to perform future regionalized mapping and reduce the uncertainty level of the existing estimations.
Balasingam, Pirahas (University of Arizona); Park, Jinyong (University of Arizona); McKenna, Sean Andrew; Kulatilake, Pinnaduwa H. S. W. (University of Arizona)
Error Exponent Region for Gaussian
Introduction We introduce the notion of error exponent region (EER) for a multi-user channel. This region specifies the set of errorexponent vectors, which are simultaneously achievable by all users in the multi-user channel [1]. In this work, we derive an inner bound (achievable region) and an outer bound for the error exponent region of a Gaussian multiple access channel (GMAC). II. Formulation and Main Result An error exponent region for a multi-user channel depends on the channel operating (rate) point. For a two-user channel, we use the notation EER(R1 , R2 ) to denote the EER when the channel is operated at rate pair (R1 , R2 ). Consider a GMAC Y = X1 +X2 + Z, (1) where X1 and X2 are the channel inputs for user 1 and user 2 with E(X 1 ) = SNR1 , E(X 2 ) = SNR2 , and Z is white Gaussian noise with unit variance. Denote E(R,SNR) the maximum of random coding exponent and expurgated exponent of a single-user Gaussian channel. Our main result follow. Theorem 1: For a two-user GM
Multiple Access Channels; Lihua Weng; Achilleas Anastasopoulos; Eep Pradhan
mountain region | OpenEI
mountain region mountain region Dataset Summary Description This dataset comes from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), and is part of the 2011 Annual Energy Outlook Report (AEO2011). This dataset is table 8, and contains only the reference case. The dataset uses quadrillion btu. The data is broken down into residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, electric power and total energy consumption. Source EIA Date Released April 26th, 2011 (3 years ago) Date Updated Unknown Keywords 2011 AEO EIA Energy Consumption mountain region Data application/vnd.ms-excel icon AEO2011: Energy Consumption by Sector and Source - Mountain- Reference Case (xls, 297.4 KiB) Quality Metrics Level of Review Peer Reviewed Comment Temporal and Spatial Coverage Frequency Annually
Northeast Regional Biomass Energy Program
The Northeast Regional Biomass Program (NRBP) is entering its ninth year of operation. The management and the objectives have virtually remained unchanged and are stated as follows. The program conducted by NRBP has three basic features: (1) a state grant component that provides funds (with a 50 percent matching requirement) to each of the states in the region to strengthen and integrate the work of state agencies involved in biomass energy; (2) a series of technical reports and studies in areas that have been identified as being of critical importance to the development of biomass energy in the region; and (3) a continuous long range planning component with heavy private sector involvement that helps to identify activities necessary to spur greater development and use of biomass energy in the Northeast.
O'Connell, R.A.
Carbon Sequestration Partnership Presented to: Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Annual Review Meeting Development Phase Field Tests Pittsburgh, PA October 5, 2010 Presented by: Gerald R. Hill, Ph.D. Senior Technical Advisor Southern States Energy Board Acknowledgements This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory. Cost share and research support provided by SECARB/SSEB Carbon Management Partners Through innovations in energy and environmental policies, programs and technologies, the Southern States Energy Board enhances economic development and the quality of life in the South. - SSEB Mission Statement SSEB Carbon Management Program Established 2003 Characterizing Southeast Region
accepted standards, which is an important planning aspect for water supply agencies. Yeh et al. (2000CHAPTER 3 REGIONAL WATER SUPPLY PLANNING AND CAPACITY EXPANSION MODELS Messele Z. Ejeta California Department of Water Resources Sacramento, California Larry W. Mays Department of Civil and Environmental
Mays, Larry W.
Regional Clean Air Incentives Market
purposes in order to provide comprehensive current information about RECLAIM based on publicly available reports and analyses. This document does not constitute official EPA policy or opinion on the RECLAIM program. The Agency has previously performed an extensive evaluation of RECLAIM, led by EPA�s Region IX (serving the Pacific Southwest). That evaluation was published in November 2002, and is available at
Which Includes Los Angeles; Orange Counties
Geographic Regions of the Himalayas
, for grazing, returning to the Vale during the winter months when they subsist on feed. Pastoral activity supplies the raw wool which provides the basis for the important woolen industry. Culturally the Vale is a region where the Afghan-Iranian and Indian...
Karan, Pradyumna P.
Mr. W. Librirzi Regional Superfund Office EPA Region II
Office of Legacy Management (LM)
* * , AP)J2 p" H-l2 &,q qp@- Department of Energy Washington, D .C. 20545 DEC. 20 1984 Mr. W. Librirzi Regional Superfund Office EPA Region II 4th Floor 26 Federal Plaza New York, New York 10278 Dear Mr. Librizzi: The Department of Energy (DOE) has completed two radiological surveys at the former Simonds Saw & Steel Company site (presently owned by the Guterl Steel Corporation), Lockport, New York (Enclosures 1 and 2). These surveys indicated that the levels of residual radioactive material and associated radiation levels at the site are in excess of those used by DOE to determine if a site requires remedial action. However, the data did not indicate that, under the current use of the site, there was any hazard to the workers or the general public. On February 21, 1980, the State of New
Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Initiative Review...
Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Initiative Review Meeting October 3-4, 2006 Table of Contents Disclaimer Papers and Presentations Updates on Regional Characterization...
Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership--Validation...
Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership-Validation Phase Background The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected seven partnerships, through its Regional Carbon...
Clean Cities Coalition Regions | Department of Energy
Regions Clean Cities Coalition Regions Nearly 100 Clean Cities coalitions work to reduce petroleum use in communities across the country. Led by Clean Cities coordinators,...
EIA - Natural Gas Pipeline System - Midwest Region
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Natural Gas Pipelines in the Midwest Region Overview | Domestic Gas | Canadian Imports | Regional Pipeline Companies & Links. Overview Twenty-six interstate and at ...
Southeast Regional Clean Energy Policy Analysis | Department...
Southeast Regional Clean Energy Policy Analysis Southeast Regional Clean Energy Policy Analysis This report covers the states that largely fall into the Southeastern Reliability...
Figure F2. Electricity market module regions
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Regional Energy Activity | Department of Energy
in every region of the world. Important issue areas include regional and country-specific energy policies and practices, technology developments, market conditions, and trade and...
Idaho Batholith Geothermal Region | Open Energy Information
Idaho Batholith Geothermal Region (Redirected from Idaho Batholith) Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home Idaho Batholith Geothermal Region Details Areas...
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Transition Zone Geothermal Region | Open Energy Information
Transition Zone Geothermal Region (Redirected from Transition Zone) Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home Transition Zone Geothermal Region edit Details...
Transition Zone Geothermal Region Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home Transition Zone Geothermal Region edit Details Areas (5) Power Plants (0) Projects...
Smart Autonomous Sensors & Enviornments
... Limitations on the physical resources of each individual node (ie energy consumption, bandwidth and mobility) make optimization of the network ...
Toward autonomous harbor surveillance
In this thesis we address the problem of drift-free navigation for underwater vehicles performing harbor surveillance and ship hull inspection. Maintaining accurate localization for the duration of a mission is important ...
Johannsson, Hordur
The Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership's (SECARB) Phase I program focused on promoting the development of a framework and infrastructure necessary for the validation and commercial deployment of carbon sequestration technologies. The SECARB program, and its subsequent phases, directly support the Global Climate Change Initiative's goal of reducing greenhouse gas intensity by 18 percent by the year 2012. Work during the project's two-year period was conducted within a ''Task Responsibility Matrix''. The SECARB team was successful in accomplishing its tasks to define the geographic boundaries of the region; characterize the region; identify and address issues for technology deployment; develop public involvement and education mechanisms; identify the most promising capture, sequestration, and transport options; and prepare action plans for implementation and technology validation activity. Milestones accomplished during Phase I of the project are listed below: (1) Completed preliminary identification of geographic boundaries for the study (FY04, Quarter 1); (2) Completed initial inventory of major sources and sinks for the region (FY04, Quarter 2); (3) Completed initial development of plans for GIS (FY04, Quarter 3); (4) Completed preliminary action plan and assessment for overcoming public perception issues (FY04, Quarter 4); (5) Assessed safety, regulatory and permitting issues (FY05, Quarter 1); (6) Finalized inventory of major sources/sinks and refined GIS algorithms (FY05, Quarter 2); (7) Refined public involvement and education mechanisms in support of technology development options (FY05, Quarter 3); and (8) Identified the most promising capture, sequestration and transport options and prepared action plans (FY05, Quarter 4).
Kenneth J. Nemeth
Developing a Regional Recovery Framework
Abstract A biological attack would present an unprecedented challenge for local, state, and federal agencies; the military; the private sector; and individuals on many fronts ranging from vaccination and treatment to prioritization of cleanup actions to waste disposal. To prepare the Seattle region to recover from a biological attack, the Seattle Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) partners collaborated with military and federal agencies to develop a Regional Recovery Framework for a Biological Attack in the Seattle Urban Area. The goal was to reduce the time and resources required to recover and restore wide urban areas, military installations, and other critical infrastructure following a biological incident by providing a coordinated systems approach. Based on discussions in small workshops, tabletop exercises, and interviews with emergency response agency staff, the partners identified concepts of operation for various areas to address critical issues the region will face as recovery progresses. Key to this recovery is the recovery of the economy. Although the Framework is specific to a catastrophic, wide-area biological attack using anthrax, it was designed to be flexible and scalable so it could also serve as the recovery framework for an all-hazards approach. The Framework also served to coalesce policy questions that must be addressed for long-term recovery. These questions cover such areas as safety and health, security, financial management, waste management, legal issues, and economic development.
Lesperance, Ann M.; Olson, Jarrod; Stein, Steven L.; Clark, Rebecca; Kelly, Heather; Sheline, Jim; Tietje, Grant; Williamson, Mark; Woodcock, Jody
EIA - Natural Gas Pipeline Network - Regional Definitions
Definitions Map Definitions Map About U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines - Transporting Natural Gas based on data through 2007/2008 with selected updates Regional Definitions The regions defined in the above map are based upon the 10 Federal Regions of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The State groupings are as follows: Northeast Region - Federal Region 1: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Federal Region 2: New Jersey, and New York. Federal Region 3:Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Southeast Region - Federal Region 4: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Midwest Region - Federal Region 5: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and
Outside a Geothermal Region | Open Energy Information
Outside a Geothermal Region Outside a Geothermal Region Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home Outside a Geothermal Region Details Areas (1) Power Plants (1) Projects (0) Techniques (0) This is a category for geothermal areas added that do not fall within an existing geothermal region. As a number of these accumulate on OpenEI, new regions can be created and areas moved into those regions accordingly. Geothermal Regions Map[1] References ↑ "Geothermal Regions Map" Geothermal Region Data State(s) Wyoming, Colorado Area USGS Resource Estimate for this Region Identified Mean Potential Undiscovered Mean Potential Planned Capacity Planned Capacity Plants Included in Planned Estimate Plants with Unknown Planned Capacity Geothermal Areas within the Outside a Geothermal Region
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New Mexico Regional SBIR/STTR Conference
New Mexico Regional SBIR/STTR Conference: Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer
Regional Summary Gulf of Mexico Management Context
Regional Summary Gulf of Mexico Management Context The Gulf Region is comprised of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and West Florida. Federal fisheries in this region are managed by the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf Region. The Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery has been managed as an individual fishing quota
Clean Cities: National and Regional Coordinator Meetings
National and Regional Coordinator National and Regional Coordinator Meetings to someone by E-mail Share Clean Cities: National and Regional Coordinator Meetings on Facebook Tweet about Clean Cities: National and Regional Coordinator Meetings on Twitter Bookmark Clean Cities: National and Regional Coordinator Meetings on Google Bookmark Clean Cities: National and Regional Coordinator Meetings on Delicious Rank Clean Cities: National and Regional Coordinator Meetings on Digg Find More places to share Clean Cities: National and Regional Coordinator Meetings on AddThis.com... Coordinator Basics Outreach Education & Webinars Meetings Reporting Contacts National and Regional Coordinator Meetings Clean Cities hosts national and regional meetings for coordinators to share expertise, success stories, and lessons learned and to hear what's
Optimal error regions for quantum state estimation
Rather than point estimators, states of a quantum system that represent one's best guess for the given data, we consider optimal regions of estimators. As the natural counterpart of the popular maximum-likelihood point estimator, we introduce the maximum-likelihood region---the region of largest likelihood among all regions of the same size. Here, the size of a region is its prior probability. Another concept is the smallest credible region---the smallest region with pre-chosen posterior probability. For both optimization problems, the optimal region has constant likelihood on its boundary. We discuss criteria for assigning prior probabilities to regions, and illustrate the concepts and methods with several examples.
Jiangwei Shang; Hui Khoon Ng; Arun Sehrawat; Xikun Li; Berthold-Georg Englert
Cooperative monitoring of regional security agreements
This paper argues that cooperative monitoring plays a critical role in the implementation of regional security agreements and confidence building measures. A framework for developing cooperative monitoring options is proposed and several possibilities for relating bilateral and regional monitoring systems to international monitoring systems are discussed. Three bilateral or regional agreements are analyzed briefly to illustrate different possibilities. These examples illustrate that the relationship of regional or bilateral arms control or security agreements to international agreements depends on a number of factors: the overlap of provisions between regional and international agreements; the degree of interest in a regional agreement among the international community; efficiency in implementing the agreement; and numerous political considerations. Given the importance of regional security to the international community, regions should be encouraged to develop their own infrastructure for implementing regional arms control and other security agreements. A regional infrastructure need not preclude participation in an international regime. On the contrary, establishing regional institutions for arms control and nonproliferation could result in more proactive participation of regional parties in developing solutions for regional and international problems, thereby strengthening existing and future international regimes. Possible first steps for strengthening regional infrastructures are identified and potential technical requirements are discussed.
Pregenzer, A.L.; Vannoni, M.; Biringer, K.L. [Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States). Nonproliferation and Arms Control Analysis Dept.
Regional Residential Heating Oil Prices
One of the first places where consumers are feeling the impact of One of the first places where consumers are feeling the impact of this winter's market pressures is in home heating oil prices. This chart shows prices through February 28, the most recent EIA data available. The general level of heating oil prices each year is largely a function of crude oil prices, and the price range over the course of the heating season is typically about 10 cents per gallon. Exceptions occur in unusual circumstances, such as very cold weather, large changes in crude oil prices, or supply problems. Heating oil prices for East Coast consumers started this winter at just over $1 per gallon, but rising crude oil prices drove them up nearly 21 cents through mid-January. With the continuing upward pressure from crude oil markets, magnified by a regional shortfall of heating oil
Slide 2 of 11 Notes: One of the first places where consumers are feeling the impact of this winters market pressures is in home heating oil prices. This chart shows prices through February 7, the most recent EIA data available. The general level of heating oil prices each year is largely a function of crude oil prices, and the price range over the course of the heating season is typically about 10 cents per gallon. Exceptions occur in unusual circumstances, such as very cold weather, large changes in crude oil prices, or supply problems. Heating oil prices for East Coast consumers started this winter at just over $1 per gallon, but rising crude oil prices drove them up nearly 21 cents per gallon through mid-January. With the continuing upward pressure from crude oil markets, magnified by a regional shortfall of
EIA - Natural Gas Pipeline System - Northeast Region
Northeast Region Northeast Region About U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines - Transporting Natural Gas based on data through 2007/2008 with selected updates Natural Gas Pipelines in the Northeast Region Overview | Domestic Gas | Canadian Imports | Regional Pipeline Companies & Links Overview Twenty interstate natural gas pipeline systems operate within the Northeast Region (Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and West Virginia). These interstate pipelines deliver natural gas to several intrastate natural gas pipelines and at least 50 local distribution companies in the region. In addition, they also serve large industrial concerns and, increasingly, natural gas fired electric power generation facilities.
Status report on the Small Secure Transportable Autonomous Reactor (SSTAR) /Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) and supporting research and development.
This report provides an update on development of a pre-conceptual design for the Small Secure Transportable Autonomous Reactor (SSTAR) Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) plant concept and supporting research and development activities. SSTAR is a small, 20 MWe (45 MWt), natural circulation, fast reactor plant for international deployment concept incorporating proliferation resistance for deployment in non-fuel cycle states and developing nations, fissile self-sufficiency for efficient utilization of uranium resources, autonomous load following making it suitable for small or immature grid applications, and a high degree of passive safety further supporting deployment in developing nations. In FY 2006, improvements have been made at ANL to the pre-conceptual design of both the reactor system and the energy converter which incorporates a supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle providing higher plant efficiency (44 %) and improved economic competitiveness. The supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle technology is also applicable to Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors providing the same benefits. One key accomplishment has been the development of a control strategy for automatic control of the supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle in principle enabling autonomous load following over the full power range between nominal and essentially zero power. Under autonomous load following operation, the reactor core power adjusts itself to equal the heat removal from the reactor system to the power converter through the large reactivity feedback of the fast spectrum core without the need for motion of control rods, while the automatic control of the power converter matches the heat removal from the reactor to the grid load. The report includes early calculations for an international benchmarking problem for a LBE-cooled, nitride-fueled fast reactor core organized by the IAEA as part of a Coordinated Research Project on Small Reactors without Onsite Refueling; the calculations use the same neutronics computer codes and methodologies applied to SSTAR. Another section of the report details the SSTAR safety design approach which is based upon defense-in-depth providing multiple levels of protection against the release of radioactive materials and how the inherent safety features of the lead coolant, nitride fuel, fast neutron spectrum core, pool vessel configuration, natural circulation, and containment meet or exceed the requirements for each level of protection. The report also includes recent results of a systematic analysis by LANL of data on corrosion of candidate cladding and structural material alloys of interest to SSTAR by LBE and Pb coolants; the data were taken from a new database on corrosion by liquid metal coolants created at LANL. The analysis methodology that considers penetration of an oxidation front into the alloy and dissolution of the trailing edge of the oxide into the coolant enables the long-term corrosion rate to be extracted from shorter-term corrosion data thereby enabling an evaluation of alloy performance over long core lifetimes (e.g., 30 years) that has heretofore not been possible. A number of candidate alloy specimens with special treatments or coatings which might enhance corrosion resistance at the temperatures at which SSTAR would operate were analyzed following testing in the DELTA loop at LANL including steels that were treated by laser peening at LLNL; laser peening is an approach that alters the oxide-metal bonds which could potentially improve corrosion resistance. LLNL is also carrying out Multi-Scale Modeling of the Fe-Cr system with the goal of assisting in the development of cladding and structural materials having greater resistance to irradiation.
Sienicki, J. J.; Moisseytsev, A.; Yang, W. S.; Wade, D. C.; Nikiforova, A.; Hanania, P.; Ryu, H. J.; Kulesza, K. P.; Kim, S. J.; Halsey, W. G.; Smith, C. F.; Brown, N. W.; Greenspan, E.; de Caro, M.; Li, N.; Hosemann, P.; Zhang, J.; Yu, H.; Nuclear Engineering Division; LLNL; LANL; Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.; Ecole des Mines de Paris; Oregon State Univ.; Univ.of California at Berkley
China Energy Primer
wind power by constructing thirty 100 MW wind farms and fourGW class wind farms in the Inner Mongolia region, Hebei,benchmark prices for on-grid wind farm-generated electricity
Ni, Chun Chun
The National Meteorological Center Regional Analysis System
The National Meteorological Center (NMC) Regional Optimum-Interpolation (ROI) analysis is described. The ROI is the analysis component of the Regional Analysis and Forecast System (RAFS) and is specially designed to provide initial conditions for ...
Geoffrey J. DiMego
Regional Revolving Loan Trust Fund (New York)
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The Regional Revolving Loan Trust Fund Program, coordinated by the Empire State Development program, is operated in six regions by nonprofit organizations and provides working capital loans (up to ...
Enhancing regional security agreements through cooperative monitoring
This paper proposes that strengthening regional capabilities for formulating and implementing arms control and confidence-building measures is a tangible method of enhancing regional security. It discusses the importance of developing a regional infrastructure for arms control and confidence building and elucidates the role of technology in facilitating regional arms control and confidence-building agreements. In addition, it identifies numerous applications for regional cooperative monitoring in the areas of arms control, resource management, international commerce and disaster response. The Cooperative Monitoring Center at Sandia National Laboratories, whose aim is to help individual countries and regions acquire the tools they need to develop their own solutions to regional problems, is discussed briefly. The paper ends with recommendations for establishing regional cooperative monitoring centers.
Pregenzer, A.L.
The NMC Nested Regional Spectral Model
A nested primitive equation regional spectral model is developed. The model consists of two components�a low-resolution global spectral model and a high-resolution regional spectral model. The two components have identical vertical structure and ...
Hann-Ming Henry Juang; Masao Kanamitsu
Region Type Checking for Core-Java
Region-based memory management offers several important advantages over garbage-collected heap, including real-time performance, better data locality and efficient use of limited memory. The concept of regions was first ...
Chin, Wei Ngan
EIA - Natural Gas Pipeline System - Western Region
Western Region Western Region About U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines - Transporting Natural Gas based on data through 2007/2008 with selected updates Natural Gas Pipelines in the Western Region Overview | Transportation South | Transportation North | Regional Pipeline Companies & Links Overview Ten interstate and nine intrastate natural gas pipeline companies provide transportation services to and within the Western Region (Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington), the fewest number serving any region (see Table below). Slightly more than half the capacity entering the region is on natural gas pipeline systems that carry natural gas from the Rocky Mountain area and the Permian and San Juan basins. These latter systems enter the region at the New Mexico-Arizona and Nevada-Utah State lines. The rest of the capacity arrives on natural gas pipelines that access Canadian natural gas at the Idaho and Washington State border crossings with British Columbia, Canada.
Regional Profiles: Pipeline Capacity and Service
Regional Profiles: Pipeline Capacity ... large petrochemical and electric utility industries drawn there ... accounts for large electricity load ...
Biochar and Carbon Sequestration: A Regional Perspective
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Everest, Graham R
Hybrid regional air pollution models
This discussion deals with a family of air quality models for predicting and analyzing the fine particulate loading in the atmosphere, for assessing the extent and degree of visibility impairment, and for determining the potential of pollutants for increasing the acidity of soils and water. The major horizontal scales of interest are from 400km to 2000km; and the time scales may vary from several hours, to days, weeks, and a few months or years, depending on the EPA regulations being addressed. First the role air quality models play in the general family of atmospheric simulation models is described. Then, the characteristics of a well-designed, comprehensive air quality model are discussed. Following this, the specific objectives of this workshop are outlined, and their modeling implications are summarized. There are significant modeling differences produced by the choice of the coordinate system, whether it be the fixed Eulerian system, the moving Lagrangian system, or some hybrid of the two. These three systems are briefly discussed, and a list of hybrid models that are currently in use are given. Finally, the PNL regional transport model is outlined and a number of research needs are listed.
Drake, R.L.
The boardman regional flux experiment
A field campaign was carried out near Boardman, Oregon, to study the effects of subgrid-scale variability of sensible- and latent-heat fluxes on surface boundary-layer properties. The experiment involved three U.S. Department of Energy laboratories, one National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration laboratory, and several universities. The experiment was conducted in a region of severe contrasts in adjacent surface types that accentuated the response of the atmosphere to variable surface forcing. Large values of sensible-heat flux and low values of latent-heat flux characterized a sagebrush steppe area; significantly smaller sensible-heat fluxes and much larger latent-heat fluxes were associated with extensive tracts of irrigated farmland to the north, east, and west of the steppe. Data were obtained from an array of surface flux stations, remote-sensing devices, an instrumented aircraft, and soil and vegetation measurements. The data will be used to address the problem of extrapolating from a limited number of local measurements to area-averaged values of fluxes suitable for use in global climate models. 16 refs., 13 figs.
Doran, J.C.; Hubbe, J.M.; Kirkham, R.R.; Shaw, W.J.; Whiteman, C.D. (Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)); Barnes, F.J.; Cooper, D.; Porch, W. (Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)); Coulter, R.L.; Cook, D.R.
The Baltics: Regional energy profiles
However, all three Baltic Republics are heavily dependent on primary energy imports. Domestic energy sources in the Baltics are limited to oil shale mines in Estonia, small oil deposits in Lithuania, peat, and some very small hydroelectric power plants. A RBMK nuclear power station, similar to Chernobyl, operates at Snieckus in Lithuania, but the reactor fuel is also imported from Russia. However, Lithuania and Estonia are net exporters of electricity despite their reliance on primary fuels imports. The major power stations in these two Republics are the Ignalina Nuclear Power Station and the two thermal power plants at Narva in Estonia which are fueled by oil shale. The only oil refinery in the Baltics is also located in Lithuania, at Mazeikiai. This refinery has the capacity to satisfy the demand for selected refined products of the entire region, including the Kaliningrad oblast, a noncontiguous part of Russia. The Mazeikiai refinery has operated at only forty to sixty percent capacity since 1990 due to halts in crude oil supplies from Russia. The Baltic Republics also import one hundred percent of their coal and natural gas supplies. Russia is the main trading partner for all the Baltic states, accounting for more than half of their trade flow. Mutual trade within the Baltics has been surprisingly low. Other Baltic states contribute less than ten percent to each Republic`s exports or imports, even less than Belarus or Ukraine. Aside from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, only Kazakhstan contributes more than two percent to Baltics trade.
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However, all three Baltic Republics are heavily dependent on primary energy imports. Domestic energy sources in the Baltics are limited to oil shale mines in Estonia, small oil deposits in Lithuania, peat, and some very small hydroelectric power plants. A RBMK nuclear power station, similar to Chernobyl, operates at Snieckus in Lithuania, but the reactor fuel is also imported from Russia. However, Lithuania and Estonia are net exporters of electricity despite their reliance on primary fuels imports. The major power stations in these two Republics are the Ignalina Nuclear Power Station and the two thermal power plants at Narva in Estonia which are fueled by oil shale. The only oil refinery in the Baltics is also located in Lithuania, at Mazeikiai. This refinery has the capacity to satisfy the demand for selected refined products of the entire region, including the Kaliningrad oblast, a noncontiguous part of Russia. The Mazeikiai refinery has operated at only forty to sixty percent capacity since 1990 due to halts in crude oil supplies from Russia. The Baltic Republics also import one hundred percent of their coal and natural gas supplies. Russia is the main trading partner for all the Baltic states, accounting for more than half of their trade flow. Mutual trade within the Baltics has been surprisingly low. Other Baltic states contribute less than ten percent to each Republic's exports or imports, even less than Belarus or Ukraine. Aside from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, only Kazakhstan contributes more than two percent to Baltics trade.
This paper argues that cooperative monitoring plays a critical role in the implementation of regional security agreements and confidence building measures. A framework for developing cooperative monitoring options is proposed and several possibilities for relating bilateral and regional monitoring systems to international monitoring systems are discussed. Three bilateral or regional agreements are analyzed briefly to illustrate different possibilities: (1) the demilitarization of the Sinai region between Israel and Egypt in the 1970s; (2) the 1991 quadripartite agreement for monitoring nuclear facilities among Brazil, Argentina, The Argentine-Brazilian Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials and the International Atomic Energy Agency; and (3) a bilateral Open Skies agreement between Hungary and Romania in 1991. These examples illustrate that the relationship of regional or bilateral arms control or security agreements to international agreements depends on a number of factors: the overlap of provisions between regional and international agreements; the degree of interest in a regional agreement among the international community; efficiency in implementing the agreement; and numerous political considerations.Given the importance of regional security to the international community, regions should be encouraged to develop their own infrastructure for implementing regional arms control and other security agreements. A regional infrastructure need not preclude participation in an international regime. On the contrary, establishing regional institutions for arms control and nonproliferation could result in more proactive participation of regional parties in developing solutions for regional and international problems, thereby strengthening existing and future international regimes. Possible first steps for strengthening regional infrastructures are identified and potential technical requirements are discussed.
Pregenzer, A.L.; Vannoni, M.; Biringer, K.L.
Template:GeothermalRegion | Open Energy Information
GeothermalRegion GeothermalRegion Jump to: navigation, search This is the GeothermalRegion template. To define a new Geothermal Region, please use the Geothermal Region form. Parameters Map - The map of the region. State - The state in which the resource area is located. Area - The estimated size of the area in which the resource area is located, in km². IdentifiedHydrothermalPotential - The identified hydrothermal electricity generation potential in megawatts, from the USGS resource estimate. UndiscoveredHydrothermalPotential - The estimated undiscovered hydroelectric generation potential in megawatts from the USGS resource estimate. PlannedCapacity - The total planned capacity for the region in megawatts. Number of Plants Included in Planned Estimate - The number of plants
Stakeholder Engagement and Outreach: Regional Wind Activities
Regional Activities Regional Activities State Activities State Lands Siting Regional Wind Activities Learn more about regional activities in New England. New England Wind Forum The New England Wind Forum has its own website with information particular to the region and its own unique circumstances. Find regional events, news, projects, and information about wind technology, economics, markets for wind energy, siting considerations, policies and public acceptance issues as they all pertain to the New England region. The site was launched in 2005 to provide a single comprehensive source of up-to-date, Web-based information on a broad array of wind-energy-related issues pertaining to New England. Contacts | Website Policies | U.S. Department of Energy | USA.gov Content Last Updated: 9/2
Science & Innovation » Carbon Capture and Storage » Regional Science & Innovation » Carbon Capture and Storage » Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships DOE's Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Program DOE has created a network of seven Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSPs) to help develop the technology, infrastructure, and regulations to implement large-scale CO2 storage (also called carbon sequestration) in different regions and geologic formations within the Nation. Collectively, the seven RCSPs represent regions encompassing: 97 percent of coal-fired CO2 emissions; 97 percent of industrial CO2 emissions; 96 percent of the total land mass; and essentially all the geologic sequestration sites in the U.S. potentially available for carbon storage.
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EIA - Natural Gas Pipeline System - Central Region
Central Region Central Region About U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines - Transporting Natural Gas based on data through 2007/2008 with selected updates Natural Gas Pipelines in the Central Region Overview | Domestic Gas | Exports | Regional Pipeline Companies & Links Overview Twenty-two interstate and at least thirteen intrastate natural gas pipeline companies (see Table below) operate in the Central Region (Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming). Twelve interstate natural gas pipeline systems enter the region from the south and east while four enter from the north carrying Canadian supplies. The average utilization rates on those shipping Canadian natural gas tend to be higher than those carrying domestic supplies.
Ocean - Regional Planning Efforts | Data.gov
Regional Planning Efforts Regional Planning Efforts Ocean Data Tools Technical Guide Map Gallery Regional Planning Feedback Ocean You are here Data.gov » Communities » Ocean Regional Planning Efforts Marine planning is a science-based process that provides transparent information about ocean use and guarantees the public and stakeholders a voice early on in decisions affecting the uses of the marine environment. It is an inclusive, bottom-up approach that gives the Federal Government, States, and Tribes, with input from local communities, stakeholders, and the public, the ability to make informed decisions on how best to optimize the use of and protect the ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes. Under the National Ocean Policy, the United States is subdivided into nine regional planning areas. Within each region, Federal, State, and Tribal
Regional Transmission Planning Webinar | Department of Energy
Regional Transmission Planning Webinar Regional Transmission Planning Webinar Regional Transmission Planning Webinar May 29, 2013 11:00AM MDT Webinar The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Tribal Energy Program, and Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) are pleased to continue their sponsorship of the Tribal Renewable Energy Webinar Series. As part of a process to develop interconnection-based transmission plans for the Eastern and Western Interconnections and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the eight U.S. regional reliability organizations are expanding existing regional transmission planning activities and broadening stakeholder involvement. Hear about the status of the organizations' plans and evaluations of long-term regional transmission
EIA - Natural Gas Pipeline System - Southeast Region
Southeast Region Southeast Region About U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines - Transporting Natural Gas based on data through 2007/2008 with selected updates Natural Gas Pipelines in the Southeast Region Overview | Transportation to Atlantic & Gulf States | Gulf of Mexico Transportation Corridor | Transportation to the Northern Tier | Regional Pipeline Companies & Links Overview Twenty-three interstate, and at least eight intrastate, natural gas pipeline companies operate within the Southeast Region (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee). Fifteen of the twenty-one interstate natural gas pipelines originate in the Southwest Region and receive most of their supplies from the Gulf of Mexico or from the States of Texas and/or Louisiana.
Ocean Map Regional | Data.gov
Regional Regional Ocean Data Tools Technical Guide Map Gallery Regional Planning Feedback Ocean You are here Data.gov » Communities » Ocean Featured Maps The following maps are from data sources that are regional in scope. These are some of the data sources available in the Ocean Community that are most useful in the identified region. This includes several of the human use atlases now available. Regional/State Maps .view-map-gallery .views-row { float: inherit; margin: 0; } .map-align { float: left; margin: 0 20px; } .map-gallery-thumbnail{width:202px;height:133px;} .pane-map-gallery h2.pane-title { color: #284A78 !important; font: bold 16px Georgia,"Times New Roman",Serif !important; margin-left: 25px !important; } Oregon Submarine Cables Marine Reserves and Protected areas of Oregon
Clean Cities: Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities coalition
Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center (EERE)
Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities Coalition Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities Coalition The Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities coalition works with vehicle fleets, fuel providers, community leaders, and other stakeholders to reduce petroleum use in transportation. Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities coalition Contact Information Richard Price 412-735-4114 firstname.lastname@example.com Coalition Website Clean Cities Coordinator Richard Price Photo of Richard Price Rick Price is the Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities and has been involved with the Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities for almost 15 years. He has served as coalition coordinator, president, and has been a member of the Board of Directors for 5 years. He is recently retired from the U.S. Department of Energy after 37 years of service. Rick was the
Natural Gas Market Regionalization and Implications
Natural gas producers, pipeline companies, electric utilities, and other end users all have a stake in understanding the dynamics of regional gas prices. This is especially true with evolving linkages between natural gas and power prices. This report addresses problems that appeared in the natural gas market during the winter of 1995/96 and again in 1996/97 when regional gas prices departed dramatically from their historic norms. Are regional gas price relationships becoming increasingly unpredictable?
EIA - Natural Gas Pipeline System - Southwest Region
Southwest Region Southwest Region About U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines - Transporting Natural Gas based on data through 2007/2008 with selected updates Natural Gas Pipelines in the Southwest Region Overview | Export Transportation | Intrastate | Connection to Gulf of Mexico | Regional Pipeline Companies & Links Overview Most of the major onshore interstate natural gas pipeline companies (see Table below) operating in the Southwest Region (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas) are primarily exporters of the region's natural gas production to other parts of the country and Mexico, while an extensive Gulf of Mexico and intrastate natural gas pipeline network is the main conduit for deliveries within the region. More than 56,000 miles of natural gas pipeline on more than 66 intrastate natural gas pipeline systems (including offshore-to-onshore and offshore Gulf of Mexico pipelines) deliver natural gas to the region's local natural gas distribution companies and municipalities and to the many large industrial and electric power facilities located in the region.
SOUTHEAST REGIONAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION PARTNERSHIP THE UNITED S T A T E S 2012 ATLAS CARBON UTILIZATION AND STORAGE Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership The Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (SECARB), managed by the Southern States Energy Board, represents a 13-state region, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, eastern Texas, and Virginia and portions of Kentucky and West Virginia. SECARB comprises more than 100 participants representing Federal and state governments, industry, academia, and nonprofit organizations. The primary goal of SECARB is to develop the necessary framework and infrastructure to conduct field tests of carbon storage technologies and to
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WIPP Mine Rescue Team Wins Regional Competition
Rescue Team from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) placed first in the recent Southern Regional Mine Rescue Competition, continuing a...
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Environmental Radioactivity in the North Atlantic Region.
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Recognition of Abstract Regions in Cartographic Maps
In the human interpretation of cartographic maps the areas we shall call abstract regions consist of several symbols (map objects), which are grouped to a single object. This abstraction process is an important part of human map interpretation. Abstract ... Keywords: cognitive modeling, formal methods, map generalization, map interpretation, region abstraction, spatial concepts
Joe Heike Steinhauer; Tom Wiese; Christian Freksa; Thomas Barkowsky
a Comprehensive Pacific Northwest Electric End-Use Data Collection Study I. GENERAL INFORMATION A. Purpose and distribution systems, Smart-Grid applications and other activities such as system operations that would benefit and Objectives In order to improve the quality of regional energy end-use data, the Regional Technical Forum (RTF
Pacific Northwest Regional Assessment of the Potential
, demand response and energy efficiency demand-side reductions. The fact that natural gas is the regionPacific Northwest Regional Assessment of the Potential Benefits of the Direct Use of Natural Gas) .........................42 Figure 1 Service Area Map of PNW Participating Natural Gas Utilities
San Andreas Geothermal Region | Open Energy Information
San Andreas Geothermal Region San Andreas Geothermal Region Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home San Andreas Geothermal Region Details Areas (4) Power Plants (0) Projects (0) Techniques (1) Map: {{{Name}}} The topographic texture of western California is controlled by the San Andreas fault system, the tectonic expression of the Pacific Plate sliding northwestward along the western margin of the North American Plate. Hundreds of miles long and in places up to a mile wide, the San Andreas Fault Zone has been active since its origin in the Tertiary. About 10 percent of the present plate motion is compressional, shortening and wrinkling the crust to create the parallel coastal northwest-southeast mountain ranges. USGS Physiographic Regions[1] References ↑ "USGS Physiographic Regions"
MIDWEST REGIONAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION PARTNERSHIP THE UNITED S T A T E S 2012 ATLAS CARBON UTILIZATION AND STORAGE Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) region consists of nine neighboring states: Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Battelle Memorial Institute leads MRCSP, which includes nearly 40 organizations from the research community, energy industry, universities, non-government, and government organizations. The region has a diverse range of CO 2 sources and many opportunities for reducing CO 2 emissions through geologic storage and/or EOR. Potential locations for geologic storage in the MRCSP states extend from the deep rock formations in the broad
Northern Rockies Geothermal Region | Open Energy Information
Northern Rockies Geothermal Region Northern Rockies Geothermal Region Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home Northern Rockies Geothermal Region Details Areas (0) Power Plants (0) Projects (0) Techniques (0) Map: {{{Name}}} Province is situated in northern Idaho and western Montana and includes folded mountains, fault-bounded uplifts, and volcanics formed during middle Cretaceous to late Eocene mountain period. The region is structtually cojmplex with faulting and folding asociated with eastward thrust faulting. Western Montana and northwestern Wyoming contain large areas of Tertiary volcanic rocks, including smaller localized Quaternary silicic volcanic rocks. Replace Citation[1] References ↑ "Replace Citation" Geothermal Region Data State(s) Idaho, Montana Area 97,538 km²97,538,000,000 m²
Alaska Geothermal Region | Open Energy Information
Geothermal Region Geothermal Region Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home Alaska Geothermal Region Details Areas (54) Power Plants (1) Projects (2) Techniques (0) Assessment of Moderate- and High-Temperature Geothermal Resources of the United States[1] Assessment of Moderate- and High-Temperature Geothermal Resources of the United States[2] References ↑ "Assessment of Moderate- and High-Temperature Geothermal Resources of the United States" ↑ "Assessment of Moderate- and High-Temperature Geothermal Resources of the United States" Geothermal Region Data State(s) Alaska Area 1,717,854 km²1,717,854,000,000 m² 663,091.644 mi² 18,490,808,670,600 ft² 2,054,553,384,000 yd² 424,490,312.67 acres USGS Resource Estimate for this Region Identified Mean Potential 677 MW677,000 kW
Lake Region State College | Open Energy Information
College College Jump to: navigation, search Name Lake Region State College Facility Lake Region State College Sector Wind energy Facility Type Community Wind Facility Status In Service Owner Lake Region State College Developer Lake Region State College Energy Purchaser Lake Region State College Location Devils Lake ND Coordinates 48.166071°, -98.864529° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":48.166071,"lon":-98.864529,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
Category:Clean Energy Economy Regions | Open Energy Information
Clean Energy Economy Regions Jump to: navigation, search Clean Energy Economy Regions Category Pages in category "Clean Energy Economy Regions" The following 7 pages are in this...
Regional Implementation Plan for CARICOM's Climate Change Resilience...
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NBP RFI: Communications Requirements- Comments of Lake Region...
Lake Region Electric Cooperative- Minnesota NBP RFI: Communications Requirements- Comments of Lake Region Electric Cooperative- Minnesota Comments of Lake Region Electric...
Smart Grid Regional and Energy Storage Demonstration Projects...
Regional and Energy Storage Demonstration Projects: Awards Smart Grid Regional and Energy Storage Demonstration Projects: Awards List of Smart Grid Regional and Energy Storage...