With the development of the vehicle industry, controlling stability has become more and more important. Techniques of evaluating vehicle stability are in high demand. As a common method, usually GPS sensors and INS sensors are applied to measure vehicle stability parameters by fusing data from the two system sensors. Although prior model parameters should be recognized in a Kalman filter, it is...

Rapid advances have been made in the field of vehicle dynamics in terms of improving the ride, handling and safety using actuators and control systems. Optimising a vehicle’s ride comfort or handling has led to the development of semi-active suspension systems. Anti-lock braking systems (ABS) have resulted in significant improvements in vehicle braking whilst maintaining directional control ove...

In the United States, passenger vehicle manufacturers have been working together, along with the U. S. government, to study wireless communications for vehicle safety applications. From 2002-4, seven automotive manufacturers— BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, GM, Nissan, Toyota, and VW— worked with the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to evaluate vehicle safety applications enabled ...

This paper illustrates the use of a vehicle in several industries and is capable of reducing extra strenuous and/or time consuming activities of humans. The main concentration of this work was on vehicle navigation, tracking, obstacle detection, weight overload, battery power measuring and also be able to locate the respective service station goods. Vehicle navigation employs RFID technology. T...

Preliminary communication For mobile internet network (Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, VANET), resources allocation, transportation industry regulations and service business requirements, this paper builds a stable and efficient mobile internet topology and designs multi-radio nodes in vehicle, and then raises the virtual-force oriented ant colony optimization algorithm through primal approach topol...

The U.S. Anny currently uses the root mean square of elevation and power spectral density to characterize road/terrain (off-road) roughness for durability. This paper describes research aimed toward improving these metrics. One method currently under consideration involves running a relatively simple, yet vehicle class specific, model over a given terrain and using predicted vehicle response(s)...

We present a problem dealing with transportation of live animals to slaughterhouses. The problem is taken from the Norwegian meat industry, and may be viewed as a vehicle routing problem extended with constraints to ensure a smooth production flow at the abattoir. In addition, several constraints to ensure animal welfare have to be met. These include duration limits for how long animals may sta...

smooth merging, and passing. The Super Smart Vehicle System studies, conducted from 1990 to 1992 by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, proposed cooperative driving using intervehicle communication to make traffic safe and efficient. Studies of intervehicle communication had already started in the early ’80s at JSK (the Association of Electronic Technology for Automobile ...

This paper presents an alternative concept for the production of a lightweight vehicle chassis, using preformed flat panels assembled into a primary structure by the simple processes of CNC routing, folding and adhesive bonding. Minimal tooling and a fully CAD integrated, software driven process provide considerable advantages in prototype development and series production: modifications can be...

Vision systems within vehicles offer new opportunities in the automobile industry. The detection and classification of passenger and driver seat occupancy open up new ways to improve the safety and comfort of the passengers. In this paper we present results of a stereo system designed for the observation of the cockpit scene in order to provide information about the passenger presence and locat...