Flexible Collision-free Platooning Method for Unmanned Surface Vehicle with Experimental Validations

This paper addresses the flexible formation problem for unmanned surface vehicles in the presence of obstacles. Building upon the leader-follower formation scheme, a hybrid line-of-sight based flexible platooning method is proposed for follower vehicle to keep tracking the leader ship. A fusion artificial potential field collision avoidance...

Identifying Spreading Sources and Influential Nodes of Hot Events on Social Networks

The rapid development of World Wide Web accelerates information spreading in various ways. Thanks to the emergence of multiple social platforms, some events which are not much attractive in the past can become social hot spots nowadays. In this paper, we study the information diffusion process of “IP MAN3 box office fraud”, which is widely...

Car-following Behavior Model Learning Using Timed Automata

Learning driving behavior is fundamental for autonomous vehicles to “understand” traffic situations. This paper proposes a novel method for learning a behavioral model of car-following using automata learning algorithms. The model is interpretable for car-following behavior analysis. Frequent common state sequences are extracted from the model...

Solving nonlinear wave-body interaction problems with the pre-corrected Fast Fourier Transform (pFFT) Method