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Many active safety systems in automotive vehicles, for instance yaw stability systems such as ESC/ESP, depend on information about vehicle velocity, in particular lateral velocity or side-slip angle, to be able to function properly. However, the vehicle velocity is rarely measured directly due to issues of cost and reliability, and must therefore in general be inferred from other measurements, ...

Recently a planetary rover returned important scientific information from Mars. More ambitious missions are planned. New planning methods are required that allow rovers to explore challenging areas with a high level of autonomy. This paper presents a planning methodology based on a physics-based model of the rover and environment. Plans are developed that allow a rover to perform a mission whil...

By considering a four-wheel-motor EV, the present paper addresses the EV stabilization using the advantages of electrical motorized wheels incorporation. The decoupling of the control of the active steering control (AFS) and the direct yaw moment control (DYC) as a way of controlling the vehicle’s body slip angle and its yaw rate simultaneously, also allows the stabilization of the lateral moti...

This paper presents navigation system for an omni-directional AGV (automatic guided vehicle) with Mecanum wheels. The Mecanum wheel, one design for the wheel which can move in any direction, is a conventional wheel with a series of rollers attached to its circumference. The localization techniques for the general mobile robot use basically encoder. Otherwise, they use gyro and electronic compas...

Though much research has been conducted regarding traction of tires in soft granular terrain, little empirical data exist on the motion of soil particles beneath a tire. A novel experimentation and analysis technique has been developed to enable investigation of terramechanics fundamentals in great detail. This technique, the Shear Interface Imaging Analysis Tool, provides visualization and ana...

For multi-axle distributed drive (MADD) vehicles, the complexity of longitudinal dynamics control system increases with number driven wheels, which presents a huge challenge to multi-motor vehicle more than four wheels. To reduce complexity, this paper proposes coordinated slip algorithm using hierarchical linear quadratic regulator (HLQR) scheme for 12 × MADD vehicle. The 12-wheel driving is d...