Surveillance missions for multiple autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) system suggest the use of different modes of operation including organizing and keeping a predefined formation, avoiding obstacles, reaching static and tracking dynamic targets. While exploiting a leader-follower strategy to formation control and the vector Lyapunov function method to controller design, we use discrete-event...

This paper describes the design and analysis of a proportional integral air speed controller and a nonlinear adaptive dynamic surface altitude controller for the longitudinal dynamics of a generic hypersonic flight vehicle. The uncertain nonlinear functions in the pure feedback flight vehicle model are approximated by using radial basis function neural networks. For the controller design, the c...

− Evaluation of active safety control systems usually relies heavily on field testing and is timeconsuming and expensive. Advances in computer simulations make it possible to perform exhaustive design trials and evaluations before field testing, and promise to dramatically reduce development cost and cycle time. In this paper, a comprehensive simulation-based evaluation procedure is proposed, w...

This thesis considers the Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem (DPDP), a dynamic multi-stage vehicle routing problem in which each demand requires two spatially separated services: pickup service at its source location and then delivery service at its destination location. The Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem arises in many practical applications, including taxi and courier services, manufact...

To facilitate the damping matching of dampers for vehicle passive suspensions, this paper proposes an analytical matching method of the optimal piecewise linear damping characteristics curve. Based on the vehicle vibration model, taking the suspension dynamic deflection as the constraint, by the vibration acceleration and the wheel dynamic load, an objective function about the relative damping ...

Development of a robust autonomous Underwater Robotic Vehicle (URV) is a key element to the exploitation of marine resources. An accurate dynamic model is important for both controller design and mission simulation, regardless of the control strategy employed. In this paper, a dynamic model for an underwater vehicle with an n-axis robot arm is developed based on Kane’s method. The technique pro...

The paper describes the technique for presenting quantitative and systematic modeling and simulation using Bond Graph for the vehicle dynamic system. It is based on the relative contribution of the new generation of a system equation, expression, result analysis and simulation through graphical display. The portioning algorithm can be employed to the existing automated modeling techniques for e...

this paper presents the results of a recent project of ikco’s research center to modify paykan 1600’s rear suspension mechanism with the purpose of improving comfort, stability and handling qualities. the car was originally equipped with a solid rear axle with leaf springs. by replacing the original mechanism with a three-link mechanism with panhard bar and coil springs, the ride comfort and ha...

The usage of electronically controlled systems is recently in the trend of increase. Electronically controlled systems for the vehicle are communicated through the network as CAN (Control Area Network) among individual electronic control systems. By sharing sensor and processing signals through the network among individual electronic control systems, Unified Chassis Control (UCC) which control ...