In this paper a new electronic control system for unmanned underwater vehicles is presented. This control system is characterized by a distribution in control over two network of type CANBus and Ethernet. This new ...

Polymer layered silicate (PLS) nanocomposites based on epoxy resins have been widely studied previously [1], but the anticipated dramatic enhancement of their properties has not yet been realised. One approach to overcoming ...

This paper presents a new methodology to compute guaranteed upper bounds for the energy norm of the error in the context of linear finite element approximations of the reaction–diffusion equation. The new approach revisits ...

For a single-input/single-output (SISO) linear time-invariant dynamical system, the standard H-infinity-norm lower error bound of balanced truncation method is parallel to G(s) - G(r)(s)parallel to(H infinity) >= sigma(r+1), ...

A vehicle exposed to flooding, after losing stability, becomes buoyant and may be washed away with potential injuries and fatalities. Such vehicles cause additional disruption to traffic that is already affected by flooding, ...

Purpose – This study aims to apply a new forecasting approach to improve predictions in the hospitality industry. To do so, the authors developed a multivariate setting that allows the incorporation of the cross-correlations ...

The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the elastic input energy of unreinforced masonry structures by means of the input energy spectrum. The energy is a novel approach which allows evaluating in a global and ...

In this work we present a new area functional that help us improve the cell area distribution in structured grids over plane irregular regions, which avoids very small and very large cell areas as much as possible. We ...

A new general family of mixed graphs is presented, which generalizes both the pancake graphs and the cycle prefix digraphs. The obtained graphs are vertex transitive and, for some values of the parameters, they constitute ...

We develop a new randomization-based general-purpose method for the computation of the interval availability distribution of systems modeled by continuous-time Markov chains (CTMCs). The basic idea of the new method is ...