Line-haul trucking costs are dominated by three comparably sized components: energy, driver labor, and equipment. Most efficiency technologies address only one component at a time.
arXiv:2608.02270v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Agriculture 4.0 robotic systems improve field efficiency yet remain too capital-intensive for the fragmented smallholdings that dominate glob...
By Weijie Shi, Zicheng Xu, Zhenbang Cheng, Haoran Xuan, Mingbo Duan, Gan Ge
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly central to power and energy systems, supporting modeling, forecasting, optimization, and control. Yet most existing works emphasize specialized applications and offer little reusable material for newcomers or interdisciplinary learners, who increasingly rely on large language models rather than building their own.
arXiv:2609.15082v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Passive counterweights are simple gravity compensators, but a counterweight selected from a single pose is not generally optimal for the configuratio...
By Mohammad Abbadi
ALFRED is an open‑source mobile manipulator designed for long‑term plant monitoring, built from commercial parts and featuring a six‑degree‑of‑freedom arm, LiDAR, RGB‑D cameras, RTK GNSS, and an IMU on an Ackermann‑steered base. The platform was iteratively refined over four builds to meet six requirements—durability, modularity, repairability, sensing reach, endurance, and reproducibility—resulting in a 66.1% usable arm reach and clear LiDAR views in the final build. Over a year of monthly forest surveys, ALFRED completed 528 traversals without missing a scheduled collection, demonstrating its reliability despite battery wear and rapid build transitions.
By Ciar\'an Miceal Johnson, Christopher Quail, Garry Ellard, Alistair McConnell, Steve Tonneau, Fernando Auat Cheein
Passive counterweights are simple gravity compensators, but a counterweight selected from a single pose is not generally optimal for the configurations and tasks a manipulator actually executes. This...