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More Belgian (Flemish?) households with solar panels, batteries or electric vehicles will be able to benefit from the flexibility they can offer the energy system as energy retailers Bolt and Trevion collaborate with VPP operator Powernaut.
https://powernaut.io/press/powernaut-a

Powernaut, Bolt, Trevion and Partners launch Belgium’s first energy contracts that pay consumers for grid support - Powernaut
Using Powernaut’s smart software, households with solar panels, home batteries, or EVs can now earn money by allowing their energy retailer to manage their devices intelligently. For example, devices may charge or reduce output during peak times to avoid grid overload. Retailers like Bolt and Trevion are offering these new contracts, allowing customers to benefit financially without sacrificing comfort. Partners such as Qbus and Innovoltus support the initiative, which is seen as a key step …

The impact of the following vehicles behaviors on the car following behaviors of the ego-vehicle
Yang Liu, Jiahao Zhang, Yuxuan Ouyang, Huan Yu, Dengbo He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00452

The impact of the following vehicles behaviors on the car following behaviors of the ego-vehicle
Among all types of crashes, rear-end crashes dominate, which are closely related to the car-following (CF) behaviors. Traditional CF behavior models focused on the influence of the vehicle in front, but usually ignored the peer pressure from the surrounding road users, including the following vehicle (FV). Based on an open dataset, the highD dataset, we investigated whether the FV's states can affect the CF behavior of the ego-vehicle in CF events. Two types of CF events were extracted from hig…

Battery electric vehicles had a market share of 18% last month in Germany; sales 45% higher than in May 2024.
China's BYD up 824%, easily surpassing Tesla (down 36%), but still only 4% share in Germany's BEV market.
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Edinburgh's low emission zone seems to be working.
https://road.cc/content/news/ediburghs-lez-results-more-cycling-and-less-car-use-314269

Edinburgh sees “statistically significant” shift towards cycling and walking plus reduced car use following introduction of low emission zone, finds study
Within a year, the LEZ has contributed in improving air quality, with the number of non-compliant vehicles entering the zone also decreasing significantly

iRonCub 3: The Jet-Powered Flying Humanoid Robot
Davide Gorbani, Hosameldin Awadalla Omer Mohamed, Giuseppe L'Erario, Gabriele Nava, Punith Reddy Vanteddu, Shabarish Purushothaman Pillai, Antonello Paolino, Fabio Bergonti, Saverio Taliani, Alessandro Croci, Nicholas James Tremaroli, Silvio Traversaro, Bruno Vittorio Trombetta, Daniele Pucci
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iRonCub 3: The Jet-Powered Flying Humanoid Robot
This article presents iRonCub 3, a jet-powered humanoid robot, and its first flight experiments. Unlike traditional aerial vehicles, iRonCub 3 aims to achieve flight using a full-body humanoid form, which poses unique challenges in control, estimation, and system integration. We highlight the robot's current mechanical and software architecture, including its propulsion system, control framework, and experimental infrastructure. The control and estimation framework is first validated in simulat…

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Evolution models with time-dependent coefficients in friction and viscoelastic damping terms
Halit Sevki Aslan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24058 https://

Evolution models with time-dependent coefficients in friction and viscoelastic damping terms
We study the following Cauchy problem for the linear wave equation with both time-dependent friction and time-dependent viscoelastic damping: \begin{equation} \label{EqAbstract}\tag{$\ast$} \begin{cases} u_{tt}- Δu + b(t)u_t - g(t)Δu_t=0, &(t,x) \in (0,\infty) \times \mathbb{R}^n, \\ u(0,x)= u_0(x),\quad u_t(0,x)= u_1(x), &x \in \mathbb{R}^n. \end{cases} \end{equation} Our goal is to derive decay estimates for higher order energy norms of solutions to this problem. We focus on the interplay b…

Nonlinear Oscillatory Response of Automated Vehicle Car-following: Theoretical Analysis with Traffic State and Control Input Limits
Sixu Li, Yang Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24029

Nonlinear Oscillatory Response of Automated Vehicle Car-following: Theoretical Analysis with Traffic State and Control Input Limits
This paper presents a framework grounded in the theory of describing function (DF) and incremental-input DF to theoretically analyze the nonlinear oscillatory response of automated vehicles (AVs) car-following (CF) amidst traffic oscillations, considering the limits of traffic state and control input. While prevailing approaches largely ignore these limits (i.e., saturation of acceleration/deceleration and speed) and focus on linear string stability analysis, this framework establishes a basis …

AeroLite-MDNet: Lightweight Multi-task Deviation Detection Network for UAV Landing
Haiping Yang, Huaxing Liu, Wei Wu, Zuohui Chen, Ning Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21635

AeroLite-MDNet: Lightweight Multi-task Deviation Detection Network for UAV Landing
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly employed in diverse applications such as land surveying, material transport, and environmental monitoring. Following missions like data collection or inspection, UAVs must land safely at docking stations for storage or recharging, which is an essential requirement for ensuring operational continuity. However, accurate landing remains challenging due to factors like GPS signal interference. To address this issue, we propose a deviation warning sys…