This article describes the design of a traction control system in an electric Formula Student vehicle. In many race applications the accelerator pedal is difficult to control for an in-experienced driver, especially in the case of electric vehicles, where a large torque is available from standstill. A 3-DOF driveline model is used in combination with a 7-DOF vehicle model and a non-linear tyre ...

Autonomous vehicles and research pertaining to them have been an important topic in academia and industry in recent years. Developing controllers that enable vehicles to perform path and trajectory following is a diverse topic where many different control strategies are available. In this thesis, we focus on lateral and longitudinal control of autonomous vehicles and two different control strat...

Wheel loaders are prone to lateral tilting accidents due to their complex working environment, variable structure frame and the large offset of the centroid position. The accidents may seriously threaten the driver’s safety. This paper proposes a steady-state margin (SSM) angle as a new instability threat indicator to analyse lateral stability of wheel loaders. Firstly, the structural character...

The possible contribution to urinary mutagenicity of occupational exposures in the rubber industry was studied by assaying the urine concentrates of 72 workmen (44 smokers) employed in a tyre plant. Twenty three clerks (16 smokers) engaged in the administrative department of the same factory served as presumptive unexposed controls. XAD-2 resin concentrates of urine samples were assayed in the ...

Seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling or tasting that something is so, are all forms of sense-perceptual knowledge (which, hereafter, I call simply perceptual knowledge). I shall be concerned with perceptual knowledge in its primary sense on which it satisfies the following perceived-object condition: If you perceive that A is an F (or is G) then you perceive A. There are conceptions of perceptual...

The safety of the driving experience and manoeuvrability of a vehicle can be improved by detecting the strain in tyres. To measure strain accurately in rubber, the strain sensor needs to be flexible so that it does not deform the medium that it is measuring. In this work, a novel flexible bond wire capacitive strain sensor for measuring the strain in tyres is developed, fabricated and calibrate...

The secondary use of tyre rubber is a potentially sustainable environmental solution. However, the sorption properties used-tyre have not yet been fully investigated. In this study, type (vulcanised or devulcanised part-worn rubber) that can sorb phosphate phosphorus from aqueous solutions wastewater more effectively determined. capacity granules (0.3–1.0 mm in diameter) non-devulcanised ground...