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Full-Text Articles in Controls and Control Theory
Automated Basketball Return System, Victor Mendoza, Chris Chamberlain
Automated Basketball Return System, Victor Mendoza, Chris Chamberlain
Electrical Engineering
The project is meant to assist a basketball player in their practicing. The project hangs directly on the basketball rim and automatically rotates to find the player on the court. Once the player is detected, the automated basketball return system (ABRS) stays focused in the direction of the player so that any baskets successfully made will be funneled back to the player. When the player moves from center, IR motion detectors find which direction you moved to and rotates accordingly, until the player is focused in front of the funnel again. If at any time the player is absent from …
Traffic Signal Control With Ant Colony Optimization, David T. Renfrew
Traffic Signal Control With Ant Colony Optimization, David T. Renfrew
Master's Theses
Traffic signal control is an effective way to improve the efficiency of traffic networks and reduce users’ delays. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a metaheuristic based on the behavior of ant colonies searching for food. ACO has successfully been used to solve many NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems and its stochastic and decentralized nature fits well with traffic flow networks. This thesis investigates the application of ACO to minimize user delay at traffic intersections. Computer simulation results show that this new approach outperforms conventional fully actuated control under the condition of high traffic demand.