This paper addresses a collective motion problem for a multi-agent system composed of nonholonomic vehicles. The aim of the vehicles is to achieve circular motion around a virtual reference beacon. A control law is proposed, which guarantees global asymptotic stability of the circular motion with a prescribed direction of rotation, in the case of a single vehicle. Equilibrium configurations of ...

More and more hybrid electric vehicles are driven since they offer such advantages as energy savings and better active safety performance. Hybrid vehicles have two or more power driving systems and frequently switch working condition, so controlling stability is very important. In this work, a two-stage Kalman algorithm method is used to fuse data in hybrid vehicle stability testing. First, the...

This paper presents a Lie group setting for the problem of control of formations, as a natural outcome of the analysis of a planar two-vehicle formation control law. The vehicle trajectories are described using the planar Frenet–Serret equations of motion, which capture the evolution of both the vehicle position and orientation for unit-speed motion subject to curvature (steering) control. The ...

Control of vehicle formations has emerged as a topic of significant interest to the controls community. In this paper, we merge tools from graph theory and control theory to derive stability criteria for vehicle formations. The interconnection between vehicles (i.e., which vehicles are sensed by other vehicles) is modeled as a graph, and the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix of the graph are ...

In this paper, a design of teleoperation for a remote vehicle with a master and slave system is proposed using PID and fuzzy logic control. The work presents a position tracking between operator and the remote vehicle. The proposed technique proves to be better for controlling the position of the system. This position control is demonstrated by simulation results with constant time delay. It is...

For the tracking control problem of vehicle suspension, a robust design method of adaptive sliding mode control is derived in this paper. The influence of parameter uncertainties and external disturbances on the system performance can be reduced and system robustness can be improved. The adaptive sliding mode controller is designed so that the practical system can track the state of the referen...

Since the vehicle dynamics is concerned with controllability and stability of vehicle, it is important in design of a ground vehicle. The modeling of the vehicle with the analysis of the dynamic response of the mathematical model have been examined in a large number of investigations. In this paper overview of various works are done. This paper tries to give an idea about the previous researche...

Direct yaw moment control is an effective means to enhance vehicle stability and handling. The majority of the latest direct yaw moment control works employ sliding mode control to generate the target yaw moment. This paper proposes a new sliding mode-based direct yaw moment control method for simultaneous tracking of desired yaw rate and vehicle side-slip for electric and hybrid vehicles equip...

The aim of this analysis is to explore the fundamental stability issues of a robotic vehicle carrying out localization, mapping, and feedback control in a perturbation-filled environment. Motivated by the application of an ocean vehicle performing an autonomous ship hull inspection, a planar vehicle model performs localization using point features from a given map. Cases in which the agent must...