Anton Pashkevich

An Integrated Platform for Blended Learning in Engineering Education.

Educational system under development of technique and emergence of new technologies faces a problem of specialists’ competence, who should design, produce, maintain new technique and use advanced technologies. The analysis of applied forms of education shows that blended learning has advantages over traditional learning and e-learning. For its successful implementation the unified informational educational platform that allows developing educational content, managing the learning process and giving the opportunity of virtual communication is required. The introduction of such advanced educational technologies like a virtual and augmented reality, simulation and gamification will enhance quality of specialists’ training. The use of real-world experience of leading enterprises of an automobile industry, as well as the students evaluation system based on the objective parameters are the main advantages of a proposed concept. At this stage, the development of the module of monitoring the learning process is proceeding.

Decision Support System to Improve Delivery of Large and Heavy Goods by Road Transport

The paper is devoted to special features of the large and heavy goods (oversized and overweight loads) transportation by road transport. To organize a delivery of large and heavy goods, two main problems have to be solved: selection of the optimal road vehicle as well as selection of the best route. Since there are a lot of factors have to be considered, it is necessary to use information and communication technologies. The concept of Decision Support System (DSS) together its modules’ interaction is presented. Software complexes, which are based on the developed algorithm to distribute the vehicle fleet units to the suitable orders, and the set of models, which allow predicting consequences of the proposed solutions, are the intelligent heart of our DSS.

Digitalization of Engineering Education: From E-Learning to Smart Education

Digitalization of all scopes of activities along with the rapid accumulation of information, development of technologies and the processes’ intellectualization pose global challenges in both the economy and education. Information technologies become an integral part of the human living space, causing the emergence of a new digital (networking) generation of people, for whom a mobile phone, a computer, and the Internet are the natural elements of their life. A universal approach to Smart Education is needed. Business requires engineers who can design, create and operate complex technical systems. At the same time, principles of sustainable development and minimization of negative environmental impacts must be observed. Educational system should ensure the quality of training engineers, who are needed by business and society. To realize this goal, there are opportunities associated with the use of such educational technologies as modeling, simulators, augmented and virtual reality. Ways to improve educational process with use of simulators and a virtual reality, as well as examples of using such training technologies to increase students’ motivation when training them for the automotive company are presented in the article.

Risk Analysis in the Appointment of the Trucks’ Warranty Period Operation

Reliability is currently one of the factors affecting the competitiveness of vehicles. Vehicles become highly reliable due to the integrated approach to all stages of their “life cycle”: design, production and operation. The most important for the manufacturer is the warranty service, because this stage is characterized by an increased probability of failure, and the manufacturer takes responsibility for their elimination. The authors propose to take into account the risks of failures of various units, assemblies and systems of the car during the appointment of the warranty period. This study used the statistics of failures received from the dealer and the service network, and from the reliability department of the engine manufacturer. The results of the study show that the use of the proposed methodology will reduce the costs of the truck manufacturer.

Safe routes as one of the ways to reduce the number of road accidents victims

The article deals with actual problems pedestrians and cyclists safety in the cities. It is shown that, despite the positive experience of interventions implementation, road traffic deaths and injuries are still high. One of the possible ways to ensure road safety for the most vulnerable road users is to develop the method to support the safest route selection. The proposed method will increase the quality of management and effectiveness of the adopted solutions to improve traffic safety.

ITS Safety Ensuring Through Situational Management Methods

The paper is devoted to solving the problem of complex organizational and technical systems’ (COTS) safety improvement with the use of methods of situational management. The possibility to manage COTS with the use of decision support system, the intelligent core of which contains the object model of the precedent describing unwanted processes in the COTS, is considered. The object-oriented hierarchy model of the vehicle as a complex dynamical system is developed. To improve reliability and safety of the COTS the database of precedents is established. Precedents in this database are presented according to the developed model by which the analogues search procedure is performed and the best managerial decision is chosen.

Smart-Bike as One of the Ways to Ensure Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities

Ensuring sustainable urban mobility is based on the rational management of transportation system. This involves the infrastructure development and design of vehicles equipped with intelligent modules, which provide the control ability. The widespread use of environmentally friendly bicycles is constrained by a number of reasons. One of them is the absence of models designed for physically untrained people. This paper proposes the concept of the smart-bike control system, which was developed to help cyclist in the situations, when the values of his/her physical condition as well as parameters of environment are critical. Prototypes of the proposed system were tested in the laboratory environment.