The report reviews the most important episodes in history of designing of self-propelled automatic chassis of the first in the world mobile extraterrestrial vehicle that is Lunokhod-1. It gives consideration to the issues of moon-rovers designing, essential features and particular properties of construction of their systems, mechanisms, units and assemblies. It reports the brief results of expl...

The advancement of automotive technology is rapid in this era, as evidenced by the existence autopilot vehicles that have been developed a scientist. This progress balanced with knowledge continues to develop world education. Many prestigious competitions are held be venue for student creativity and research developing technology, one which Formula Student SAE. background study an engineered el...

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...

Paladin is an upgrade of the 1960s-era M109-series howitzer. While the vehicle includes a new turret, many components—such as the chassis, its automotive capability, and the level of protection it affords—are fundamentally the same as in the earlier versions of the M109. Today the technologies that Paladin helped pioneer are becoming increasingly common on more modern and capable selfpropelled ...

This paper is concerned with the design of a multivariable Global Chassis Controller (GCC), using LPV/H∞ robust controllers for suspension, active steering and electro-mechanical braking actuators which aim at improving comfort and safety performance in critical driving situations. The proposed solution is to schedule the three control actions (braking, steering and suspension) according to the...

The automotive deployment problem is a real-world constrained multiobjective assignment problem in which software components must be allocated to processing units distributed around a car’s chassis. Prior work has shown that evolutionary algorithms such as NSGA-II can produce good quality solutions to this problem. This paper presents a population-based ant colony optimisation (PACO) approach t...

We developed a computational model based on a finite-element mixed formulation with quadratic isoparametric beam elements. We applied this model to the analysis of a blade-wagon: a novel structure characteristic of an innovative concept in wind-power called VGOT Darrieus turbine. We studied the structural behaviour of its main components: chassis, suspension and blade, using combinations of bea...

This work deals with the mathematical modeling and control of the semi-active suspension of an MAN off-road truck with a payload of 5 tons which comprises electrorheological dampers. Thereby, a cascaded control structure with four controllers for the control of a quartercar in the inner control loop and a superimposed control strategy for the overall vehicle is used. The main goal of the contro...