Arising technologies in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication allow vehicles to obtain information about the motion of distant vehicles. Such information can be presented to the driver or incorporated in advanced autonomous cruise control (ACC) systems. In this paper, we investigate the effects of multi-vehicle communication on the dynamics of connected vehicle platoons and propose a motif-bas...

the primary objective of this work is to introduce a gear ratio selection strategy for a CVT equipped vehicle and show its effectiveness on the fuel consumption reduction. AFuzzy control algorithm is designed for this purpose. Anonlinear model is developed for simulating the longitudinal vehicle dynamics with accelerator pedal applied by the driver as an input. In order that pedal input valu...

Torque vectoring (TV) is one of the most promising technologies in vehicle dynamics control as it has the potential to provide distinctive benefits for mobility and agility of all-wheel drive ground vehicles. Especially in all-terrain driving, TV control can support both vehicle stability and driving efficiency. Within this context, the paper presents the state-of-the-art in TV control and intr...

This paper aims at presenting the efficiency of the Linear Parameter Varying method for vehicle dynamics control, in particular when some actuators may be in failure. The case of the suspension actuators failure and braking actuators failure are presented. The main objective is to enhance the vehicle dynamics even with faulty actuators through the suspension control (for comfort and road holdin...

As reported in earlier work, methods for hybrid optimal control can be used for optimal path planning of multi-agent systems. This paper considers a multi-vehicle transport scenario in which a hybrid model is used to represent the continuous dynamics of the vehicle motion and the dynamics arising from the docking-events between vehicles and a transported object. The decisions on the vehicles’ h...

Automotive Control Systems are an application area of Automatic Control Science with increasing importance. A generation ago, vehicles were mainly designed by mechanical engineers. Today, about 1/3 of a vehicle’s added value is electronics. Customer-relevant vehicle functions are more and more determined by information and automation technology. The basic ideas of system dynamics, feed-back, an...