The 3D orientation and amplitude of the movement of each eye evoked by predictable, sinusoidal and non-predictable, sum-of-sines rotation about roll, yaw, pitch and intermediate axes were measured in seven subjects. The rotation axis of the eyes was not always perfectly aligned with the stimulus axis but showed systematic deviations that depended on the orientation of the rotation axis of the h...

Direct Yaw Moment Control (DYC) is an effective way to alter the behaviour of electric cars with independent drives. Controlling torque applied each wheel can improve handling performance a vehicle making it safer and faster on race track. The state-of-the-art literature covers comparison various controllers (PID, LPV, LQR, SMC, etc.) using ISO manoeuvres. However, more advanced important chara...

The yaw moment of wind turbine rotors has never been in the focus aerodynamics. With increasing activities development support structures for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWT), which passively align with wind, interest shifted, as an accurate determination is a crucial issue successful design such power plants. A downwind coned rotor promising option to increase and therefore self-alignmen...

Unstructured off-road environments with complex terrain obstacles and pavement properties bring obvious challenges for special purpose autonomous vehicle control. A cascade direct yaw moment control strategy (CDYC), which contains a main loop servo loop, is proposed to enhance the accuracy stability of an independent eight in-wheel motor-driven rear-wheel steering (8WD/RWS). In double PID contr...

In this paper, a novel approach to UAV’s automatic landing on the ship’s deck is proposed. We present the design of the cooperative object, and then begin our basic research on UAV autonomous landing on a ship by using computer vision and affine moment invariants. We analyze the infrared radiation images in our experiments by extracting the target from the background and then recognizing it. Al...

For a vehicle equipped with active single-wheel steering, brake, drive and suspension systems a nonlinear vehicle model is presented. On the basis of this model an integrated vehicle dynamics control is developed comprising all of the mentioned chassis actuators to control the plane vehicle motion. The basic control strategy consists in two parts. One part is a flatness based tracking controlle...

This paper considers point-to-point navigation of underactuated ships where only surge force and yaw moment are available. In general, a ship’s sway motion satisfies a passive-boundedness property which is expressed in terms of a Lyapunov function. Under this kind of consideration, a certain concise nonlinear scheme is proposed to guarantee the closed-loop system to be uniformly ultimately boun...

This paper suggests a hierarchical coordination control strategy to enhance the stability of distributed drive electric bus. First, an observer based on sliding mode (SMO) and adaptive neural fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) was designed estimate vehicle state parameters. Then upper layer primarily focuses coordinating active front steering (AFS) direct yaw moment (DYC). The phase plane method is...