This paper presents the static balancing of a highly reconfigurable articulated wheeled vehicles with multiple leg-wheel subsystem. Articulated wheeled vehicles are a class of mobile robots which offer immense possibilities for enhanced locomotion-performance of autonomous mobile vehicles by virtue of the enormous reconfigurability within their articulated structure. However, changing the vehic...

Birds and insects naturally use passive flexing of their wings to augment their stability in uncertain aerodynamic environments. In a similar manner, micro air vehicle designers have been investigating using wing articulation to take advantage of this phenomenon. The result is a class of articulated micro air vehicles where artificial passive joints are designed into the lifting surfaces. In or...

Mobile ropeways for carrying out transport operations, formed with the help of terminal units connected by a single cable system on basis self-propelled wheeled or tracked chassis increased capacity and cross-country ability, are promising type lifting equipment that ensures rapid deployment necessary technological means. The article discusses issues preliminary arrangement rod mechanism instal...

This article presents a general procedure of reducing the number of fuzzy rules needed to perform a human-in-the-loop (HIL) design process using a virtual environment design tool. This HIL design process is created for designing an adaptive steering controller to achieve optimal vehicle maneuverability regardless of operator’s driving behaviors. In this design process, a dynamic model of an art...

The paper presents an application of neural networks to control braking torques on wheels of an articulated vehicle in an untripped rollover manoeuvre. The numerical model of the articulated vehicle and dynamic optimisation were used to calculate appropriate braking torques for each wheel in order to restore stability. The optimisation problem requires the equations of motion to be integrated a...

MATHEMATICAL MODELLING TECHNIQUES FOR THE COMPUTER SIMULATION OF VEHICLE DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE AND RESPONSE by Michael P. Renucci Computer based mathematical modelling techniques are developed for the prediction of: ýý Vehicle dynamic performance characteristics. Vehicle dynamic response to specific road surface excitation. The simulation technique addresses response mainly in the 0-30 Hz frequen...

Minimum lap-time planning (MLTP) is a well-established problem in the race car industry to provide guidelines for drivers and optimize vehicle’s setup. In this paper, we tackle 3D nature of its full extension, making no simplifying assumptions on mechanics system. We propose multibody vehicle model, described by rigorous dynamical equations. To effectively handle resulting complexity, devised a...

Bioengineering is an area of biotechnology that offers tools for different therapeutic strategies, including tissue therapies. For this, cells are associated with growth factors and scaffolds composed biocompatible biomaterials capable promoting the regeneration tissues, such as bones. Autologous produced from human peripheral blood have a proven ability to produce/release activating repair, po...