The vehicular flow in the urban street canyon is considered. The classical field description is used in the modelling of the vehicular movement and of gaseous mixture in generic urban street canyon. The dynamical variables include vehicular densities, velocities, and emissivities: of pollutants, heat and exhaust gases, as well as standard mixture components' variables: densities, velocities, te...

Today’s vehicles are much more than a mechanical device, and complex systems of sensing, computing, communication, and control are ubiquitously deployed to serve as the intelligent nerve systems of vehicles. For instance, the number of electronic control units (ECUs) is well over 70 in today’s high-end vehicles, and these ECUs process up to 2,500 signals (i.e., elementary information such as ve...

The concept of multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) cooperatively performing a mission offers several advantages over single vehicles working in a non-cooperative manner such as increased efficiency, performance, reconfigurability, robustness and the emergence of new capabilities. This paper introduces the concept of coordinated path-following control of multiple AUVs. The vehicles ar...

With an increasing number of vehicles equipped with adaptive cruise control (ACC), the impact of such vehicles on the collective dynamics of traffic flow becomes relevant. By means of simulation, we investigate the influence of variable percentages of ACC vehicles on traffic flow characteristics. For simulating the ACC vehicles, we propose a new car-following model that also serves as the basis...

In this paper control forces and torques automatic distribution algorithms for a vehicle actuators are considered. Base control algorithm is designed by position and path control method for vehicles [1] – [3]. This control algorithm is based on kinematics and dynamics equations of vehicle. Distribution of control forces and torques between actuators is solved by applying of the pseudoinverse ma...

A survey is given on two decades of developments in the field, encompassing an increase in computing power by four orders of magnitude. The '4-D approach' integrating expectation-based methods from systems dynamics and control engineering with methods from AI has allowed to create vehicles with unprecedented capabilities in the technical realm: Autonomous road vehicle guidance in public traffic...

This paper tackles the combined problem of trajectory planning and tracking control of planar underactuated marine vehicles with different dynamic models. A reference feasible trajectory for the position and orientation is planned so as to be consistent with each of the three dynamic models. Using these reference values the dynamics of the vehicles is transformed to the error one. Partial state...

Robust tracking of vehicles under uncertain, noisy, and discontinuous positioning is a significant part of autonomous navigation in unknown environments. This article suggests two methods for track control, where the initial parameters of the on-line control are physically explainable, the resulting track as well as the control parameters are asymptotically converging and glitches in the locali...

This paper reviews and improves a recently proposed model of road network dynamics. The model is also adapted and generalised to represent the patterns of battery consumption of electric vehicles traveling in the road network. Simulations from the mobility simulator SUMO are given to support and to illustrate the efficacy of the proposed approach. Applications relevant in the field of electric ...

Dangerous goods vehicles, in particular those carrying fluid loads, have been identified as needing to meet stringent performance requirements within the Performance Based Standards (PBS) developed by the National Roads and Transport Commission in Australia. The opportunity to control the lateral dynamics of these multiply-articulated vehicles with active steering systems deployed on the traile...