Three-dimensional unsteady computations of the flow past a fruit fly Drosophila under hovering and free flight conditions are computed. The kinematics of the wings and the body of the fruit fly are prescribed from experimental observations. The computed unsteady lift and thrust forces are validated with experimental results and are in excellent agreement. The unsteady aerodynamic origin of the ...

Nowadays, using advanced vehicle control and safety systems in vehicles is growing rapidly. In this regard, in recent years new control systems, called VDC, have been introduced. These systems stabilize vehicle yaw motion, by yaw moment resulted from tire controlling forces. In this paper, an adaptive optimal controller applied to a vehicle to obtain a satisfactory lateral and yaw stability. To...

In this paper, a novel yaw moment control system is proposed to improve vehicle’s handling and stability. The control system includes reference model, DYC controller, Distributer, and Smith predictor. The reference model is used to obtain the desired yaw rate. The DYC controller determines the desired yaw moment by means of sliding-mode technique. The Distributer, based on maneuverability and c...

A recursive least square RLS algorithm for estimation of vehicle sideslip angle and road friction coefficient is proposed. The algorithm uses the information from sensors onboard vehicle and control inputs from the control logic and is intended to provide the essential information for active safety systems such as active steering, direct yaw moment control, or their combination. Based on a simp...

This paper investigates the problems of the z-axis dynamic balance and high energy consumption in practical application of humanoid robot. Considering z-axis dynamic balance conditions, a novel yaw moment compensation solution based on arms-swinging is proposed by computing the optimal arms-swinging trajectories to counteract the yaw moment caused by the movement of humanoid robot. Given the op...

A novel vehicle stability control method integrated direct yaw moment control (DYC) with active front steering (AFS) is presented in this paper. By the phase plane of sideslip angle and sideslip angular velocity, vehicle stable region is determined. When the vehicle is outside the stable region, DYC controller is firstly used to produce proper direct yaw moment, which can make the vehicle back ...

Direct Yaw moment Control systems (DYC) can maintain the vehicle in the driver’s desired path by distributing the asymmetric longitudinal forces and the generation of the Control Yaw Moment (CYM). In order to achieve the superior control performance, intelligent usage of lateral forces is also required. The lateral wheel forces have an indirect effect on the CYM and based upon their directions,...

An optimal reconfiguration control scheme based on control allocation CA is proposed to stabilize the yaw dynamics of the tractor-semitrailer vehicle. The proposed control scheme is a twolevel structure consisting of an upper level of sliding mode yaw moment controller SMYC and a lower optimal brake force distributor BFD . The upper SMYC is designed to follow the tractor yaw rate and the combin...