Article history: Received 2 April 2013 Received in revised form 25 July 2013 Accepted 26 July 2013 Available online xxxx Since the 1970s, automobile manufacturers have used electronics for safety–critical automobile control systems such as acceleration, braking, and steering. These electronic systems introduced functionalities in automobiles that were not feasible in a purely mechanical framewo...

Electric power steering systems are a quite common equipment of modern vehicles. They are based on torque controlled electromechanical actuators assisting the driver in moving the steering wheel. These systems must generate low torque fluctuations and mechanical vibrations, while featuring a low cost and a simple and rugged control system. In order to comply with these requirements an electrome...

The automatic control of a vehicle’s steering wheel is now one of the most important challenges in the Intelligent Transportation Systems field. In this paper, we present a fuzzy logic-based automatic steering control system for mass-produced electric power steering (EPS) wheel-equipped vehicles that assures human-like behavior. In the literature, we find a lot of theoretical proposals and some...

The Center for Electronic Commerce (CEC) embodies over fourteen years of experience in applying agents to industrial problems. We have found such a fit in three areas: coordination of industrial designers, simulation and modeling of complex products and processes, and scheduling and control of production systems. This presentation outlines several trends in modern manufacturing, describes how t...

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The steering control system serves as the foundation of all autonomous vehicle activities, directly supporting trajectory planning and tracking. Prior research assumes ideal characteristics of the control system and leaves the burden of realizing such assumptions to physical implementation. However, expense of high-performance actuators and mechanical difficulty of hardware installation render ...

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