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Routes Optimization System Based on Railroad and Street Traffic Information

Reference #: 01565 The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for Routes Optimization System Based on Railroad and Street Traffic Information Background: Current navigation systems, such as Google Maps, Apple Maps, calculates the optimal route based on the street traffic information. But still, the travelers would need to...

Published: 1/31/2023 | Inventor(s): Yu Qian, Yuche Chen

Keywords(s): delay, dynamic programming, optimal route selection, Railroad crossing blockage, street traffic

Category(s): Software and Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences

Autonomous Drone for railroad track inspection

Reference #: 01564 The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for Autonomous Drone for railroad track inspection Background: The current practices suffer from three main drawbacks: 1) Human pilot cost is significant. The schedule of the drone-based track inspection is contingent on the pilot’s availability rather than...

Published: 3/15/2023 | Inventor(s): Yu Qian, Yi Wang, Chen Chen

Keywords(s): autonomous drone, flight control, image processing, railroad track inspection, self-navigation

Category(s): Engineering and Physical Sciences

Soft Reclosing Method for Service Restoration in a Power System

Reference#: 00976 Invention Description: This invention is a process for using inverter-coupled local energy storage to softly restart an industrial power network after a grid outage. The soft restart process eliminates a number of problems commonly associated with simply reclosing a circuit breaker -- problems such as large inrush currents, motor torque...

Published: 4/4/2017 | Inventor(s): Roger Dougal, Asif Anwar, Yucheng Zhang

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Category(s): Engineering and Physical Sciences