James Cameron revealed in an interview with Discussing Film that he received pushback from the studio when he decided to expand the number of “Avatar” sequels from three films to four. After the ...

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Abstract: Control of off-road vehicles is challenging due to the complex dynamic interactions with the terrain. Accurate modeling of these interactions is important to optimize driving performance, ...

Abstract: In order to improve the transient mode switching quality from the motor driving to the hybrid driving stage of a power split hybrid electric vehicle (PS-HEV), a novel finite-time dynamic ...