The development of Integrated Chassis Control (ICC) systems is a major area of current interest in automotive research. Roughly speaking, research on this topic has been motivated by the desire for increased vehicle safety, increased comfort, and better performance by taking into account and utilising the interactions that exists between the different subsystems of the vehicle. While research o...

The paper describes the technique for presenting quantitative and systematic modeling and simulation using Bond Graph for the vehicle dynamic system. It is based on the relative contribution of the new generation of a system equation, expression, result analysis and simulation through graphical display. The portioning algorithm can be employed to the existing automated modeling techniques for e...

Portable devices like tablet PCs and smart phones are being used more often these days within the vehicular environment. Drivers use them for listening to music, navigation assistance, accessing internet and also mainly for speaking over the phone. Most of these features are made possible in the portable devices due to the availability and use of many sensors such as global positioning system (...

Integrated vehicle dynamics control with the coordination of several vehicle subsystems is considered. The proposed algorithms of subsystem coordination based on restriction weights into the optimal control allocation allow to achieve lower energy consumption without significant impairment of stability of motion and vehicle handling compared with standard control allocation. The proposed contro...

We investigate the use of large-scale Automated Highway Systems, also called one-dimensional vehicle platoons, as a practical traffic mitigation solution. We review recent theoretical results related to vehicle platooning and discuss their implications on the scalability and safety of large-scale platoons. We also quantify the performance of different platoon control strategies through simulati...

This paper describes a control system for the kinematic variables of an underwater vehicle. Control of underwater vehicles is not simple, mainlys due to the nonlinear, coupled and unknown character of system equations and dynamics. The proposed methodology makes use of a pioneering algorithm implemented for the first time in an underwater vehicle, and it is based on the fusion of a sliding mode...

This paper presents the application of Buckingham’s π theorem to scale the powertrain of a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) by deriving non dimensional ratios called π parameters. A Hardware In the Loop (HIL) setup is constructed and the resulting longitudinal dynamics of the scaled vehicle are validated against those of a full scale vehicle model. This is performed with the u...

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 values ...

Recent advances toward steer-by-wire technology have promised significant improvements in vehicle handling performance and safety. While the complete separation of the steering wheel from the road wheels provides exciting opportunities for vehicle dynamics control, it also presents practical problems for steering control. This thesis begins by addressing some of the issues associated with contr...

This paper has investigated a novel method of using vehicle dynamic information in de-noising raw INS sensor noises. Vehicle dynamics can constitute additional observation information to be used for improving the integration performance. Since vehicle dynamic model has a low pass filter characteristic, passing the raw INS sensor measurements through it would effectively reduce the high frequenc...