An electronic stability program (ESP) system for passenger cars can be utilized effectively to stabilize a skidding vehicle and thus make the vehicle more controllable to reduce the risk of traffic accidents and to improve driving safety. In this paper, a vehicle multi-body dynamic model constructed using MSC.ADAMS/Car is adopted to investigate the reliability of the ESP system. To improve cont...

This paper presents a sequential loop closure approach to designing a velocity and altitude tracking autopilot for a hypersonic vehicle. The control architecture consists of two decoupled control subsystems, one for velocity, the other for altitude. The velocity control subsystem consists of an adaptive augmented baseline controller. The altitude control subsystem consists of an adaptive inner-...

Plus-sizing in the tire industry is the growing practice of replacing a vehicle’s original equipment wheel size with a larger diameter wheel and replacing the tire with a lower aspect ratio tire of the same diameter. This practice is normally associated with aftermarket sales, and there is a growing trend for vehicle dealerships to fit these larger wheels/tires to new cars. This paper discusses...

The application of Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) technologies to Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) in the service of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has brought new challenges in maintaining communication clusters of network members for long time durations. Stable clustering methods reduce the overhead of communication relay in MANETs and provide for a more efficient hierarchical netw...

A Steer-By-Wire (SBW) control scheme is proposed for enhancing the lateral stability and handling capability of a super lightweight vehicle by using the energy optimal control method. Tire dissipation power and virtual power, which is the product of yaw moment and the deviation of actual yaw rate from the target yaw rate, were selected as performance measures to be minimized. The SBW control sc...

The communication network is a key enabling technology for many of the latest advances in automotive electronics design. As drive-by-wire, vehicle control systems (e.g., vehicle stability control), hit avoidance, pre-crash warnings, and other design advances become more pervasive, the selection of the most appropriate in-vehicle communication protocol(s) for these critical applications becomes ...

This paper presents the results of a lateral control strategy that has been applied to the problem of steering an autonomous vehicle using vision. The lateral control law has been designed for any kind of vehicle presenting the Ackerman kinematic model, accounting for the vehicle velocity as a crucial parameter for adapting the steering control response. This makes the control strategy suitable...

In order to evaluate the driving stability of a motor vehicle, the accurate determination of the vehicle sideslip angle is of significant importance. With the help of the sensor signals in today’s production vehicles, this state can only be determined with limited accuracy. We propose an algorithm for the determination and estimation of the vehicle state based on the Unscented Kalman Filter. In...

Since car manufacturers pursue in the development of environmental -friendly vehicle, the demand for extensive research on stability, controllability, and reliability of electric vehicles (EVs) increases. Electric powered and by-wire control technology allow manufacturers to build independent four -wheel steering of an allwheel drive in-wheel EV. In past research, we investigated the advantages...

Some of the fundamental problems of the gait control of a quadruped walking vehicle are addressed. It is shown that the product of the duty factor and the stride length is equal to the length of the boundary of the reachable area of the leg. Furthermore, the mathematical expression representing the relationship between the stability margin, the stride length and duty factor are also formulated....