To enable a quadrotor to navigate autonomously, a set of interdependent requirements must be addressed, including control, state estimation, map learning, and mission planning. Autonomous navigation requires stabilization of the vehicle. To stabilize the vehicle, the state of the vehicle must be known. In GPS-denied environments, state estimation is calculated using simultaneous localization an...

In this paper, a decentralized integrated control structure ...

The research discusses the problems of designing the automotive safety systems as comprehensive objects at the interface between the vehicle dynamics control, intelligent transportation systems and human machine interface. Taking into account the extreme uncertainty of the driving environment, the development of reliable safety control systems is possible only on the basis of intelligent analyt...

This paper presents an integrated traction control strategy (ITCS) for distributed drive electric vehicles. The purpose of the proposed strategy is to improve vehicle economy and longitudinal driving stability. On high adhesion roads, economy optimization algorithm is applied to maximize motors efficiency by means of the optimized torque distribution. On low adhesion roads, a sliding mode contr...

Unmanned vehicle systems (UVSs), whether in the air, on the ground, on or under water, are inherently complex systems that rely on remote operator supervision to accomplish often dangerous and time-critical missions. Measuring the performance of a UVS is not a trivial task since the performance of the actual vehicle does not necessarily imply a performance level of the operator and vice-versa. ...

This paper considers the effect of active speed management on traffic-induced emissions. In particular, the traffic emissions caused by acceleration and deceleration of vehicles are modelled based on an instantaneous emission model integrated with a microscopic traffic simulation model. The emission model is based on empirical measurements which relate vehicle emission to the type, the instanta...

Due to increasing system complexity, time-to-market and development costs reduction, new engineering processes are required. Model-based engineering processes are suitable candidates because they support system development by enabling the use of various model-based analysis techniques and tools. As a result, they are able to cope with complexity and have the potential to reduce time-to-market a...

The yaw moment control is the most efficient method for improving vehicle handling and stability. A corrective yaw moment should be applied to the vehicle in order to modify the dynamic behaviour of vehicle. This corrective yaw moment is related to the interaction between the tires and road. Therefore generating corrective yaw moment independent from the tire-road interactions is noteworthy. In...

In this paper, we study the design and control of automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems, with the focus on the quayside container transport in an automated container terminal. We first set up an event-driven model for an AGV system in the zone control framework. Then a number of layouts of the road network (guide-path) are carefully designed for the workspace of the AGVs in a container termina...