Feedback in Automated Clutch Control Circuit for Truck Start-Up Process

Waste Management's LNG Truck Fleet: Start-Up Experience

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of an Electro-Pneumatic Clutch for Truck Applications

This paper presents two different nonlinear model predictive control designs for an electro-pneumatic clutch used in heavy trucks: a centralised approach and a cascaded one with a fast underlying pressure control. This automated clutch disburdens the driver and provides the necessary actuation force according to the large torque transmitted through the powertrain. The main idea of the used NMPC...

Distributed feedback control algorithm for dynamic truck loading scheduling problem

Distributed arrival time control (DATC) is a highly distributed feedback control algorithm for the scheduling problems in heterarchical operation systems [V.V. Prabhu, Performance of real-time distributed arrival time control in heterarchical manufacturing systems, IIE Transactions 32 (2000) 323–331]. Although DATC has presented outstanding performance for the real-time scheduling problems in d...

Feedback Linearization Control for Path Tracking of Articulated Dump Truck

The articulated dump truck is a widespread transport vehicle for narrow rough terrain environment. To achieve the autonomous driving in the underground tunnel, this article proposes a path following strategy -for articulated vehicle based on feedback linearization algorithm. First of all, the kinematic model of articulated vehicle, which reflects the relationship between the structure parameter...

Streamlining the study start up process

Trial start up is a frenetic time for any trial manager: once a trial has been funded the clock is ticking to get the first participant recruited. There are a number of key activities that need to happen during this stage, so developing standardised processes to help improve effectiveness can make the system more efficient, and help promote best practice. Three of the key processes that have be...