Nowadays, the use of small vehicles is spreading among urban areas and one sort of these vehicles are three-wheeled vehicles (TWVs) which can be competitive with four-wheeled urban vehicles (FWVs) in aspects such as smallness, simple manufacturing, and low tire rolling resistance, fuel consumption and so on. The most critical instability associated with TWVs is the roll over. In this paper a ti...

In general three wheelers are one of the most popular city transport vehicles in the world and particularly in developing countries especially for short hauls. In the present work finite element model of three wheeled motor vehicle chassis has been developed using ANSYS software by taking into account the chassis longitudinal/cross members, the suspensions, the axles and the tires. Modal analys...

This paper deals with navigation problem of wheeled oo-road robots while taking into account the mechanical behavior of the locomotion system and its interaction with the environment. We developed a simulation model of quasi-static motion for a class of wheeled and suspended vehicles. Command velocities are computed by tracking the vehicle control point along the prescribed path. To evaluate th...

A large-scale combined legged and wheeled vehicle with anthropomorphic legs is presented. This concept combines the advantages of a walking machine with the stability of a wheeled vehicle. The leg utilises a spherical hip joint, a revolute knee joint and a passively pivoting foot. Due to the size of the system linear hydraulic actuators are used, and thus kinematic loops are created in the mech...

The system under investigation is the hydraulically driven large-scale combined legged and wheeled vehicle ALDURO. It combines the advantages of a walking machine with the stability and speed of a wheeled vehicle and is able to move over rugged terrain. Due to the kinematic constraints arising at the wheel-ground contact, ALDURO is a nonholonomic system which also includes several closed kinema...

in this article, vehicle cornering stability and brake stabilization via bifurcation analysis has been investigated. in order to extract the governing equations of motion, a nonlinear four-wheeled vehicle model with two degrees of freedom has been developed. using the continuation software package matcont a stability analysis based on phase plane analysis and bifurcation of equilibrium is perfo...

In this paper we consider the mobile robot parking problem, i.e., the stabilization of a wheeled vehicle to a given position and orientation, using only visual feedback from low-cost cameras. We take into account the practically most relevant problem of keeping the tracked features in sight of the camera while maneuvering to park the vehicle. This constraint, often neglected in the literature, ...