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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Lateral Dynamics"”.
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Lateral dynamics and control of rail vehicles.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
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Application of the multiple model adaptive control method to the control of the lateral dynamics of an aircraft
Thesis. 1975. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Identification and control of an automated off highway agricultural vehicle
… guidance is arriving at a good model of vehicle lateral dynamics. This study presents a new approach for identifying the lateral dynamics of an automated off-highway vehicle. A second order model is proposed to represent the vehicle lateral dynamics. An Iterative Learning Identification (ILI) …
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Development of active trailer steering systems for pickup truck-trailer combinations
Lateral dynamics of articulated vehicles continue to remain a subject of concern in the design of safety systems. Vehicle-trailer combinations tend to exhibit low lateral stability and poor maneuverability, especially under high-speed maneuvers, which lead to unstable motion modes such as …
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Development of a Dynamic Simulation of an Automobile that Incorporates Four Wheel Steering and a Driver Model
… the development of a four-wheel steering vehicle dynamics model and the implementation of a driver controller are detailed. The model is intended to be used for supporting research in the cybersecurity of conventional and autonomous road vehicles. It incorporates a 10 degree-of-freedom vehicle …
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Modeling and control of undesirable dynamics in atomic force microscopes
… In this thesis, a detailed model of AFM dynamics has been developed. It includes a new model for the piezoelectric scanner coupled longitudinal and lateral dynamics, creep, and hysteresis. Models for probe-sample interactions and cantilever dynamics were also included. The models were …
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Analytical and experimental investigation of a 1/5 scale rail vehicle simulator
… models were also developed to simulate the lateral dynamics of the truck running on the roller rig. The nonlinear model incorporates a lookup table For the wheel/rail geometric constraints, a heuristic creep force model to take into account creep force saturation, and it includes the effects …
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Design and analysis of active aerodynamic control systems for increasing the safety of high-speed road vehicles
The lateral stability and the safety of road vehicles is dependent on the vehicle design and operating conditions. Under operating conditions such as slippery roads, high lateral acceleration and tight cornering, the forces and torques due to the interactions between the tire and road may be …
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Improved Vehicle Dynamics Sensing during Cornering for Trajectory Tracking using Robust Control and Intelligent Tires
… Lane Change (DLC) and cornering wherein the lateral force transfer is dependent upon these computations. This research focuses on the development of a high-fidelity vehicle-tire model and control algorithm framework for vehicle trajectory tracking for vehicles operating in this limit handling …
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Topics in Automotive Rollover Prevention: Robust and Adaptive Switching Strategies for Estimation and Control
… automotive vehicles relevant to the roll and the lateral dynamics including the position of CG. This results in high performance estimation of the CG as well as other time varying parameters, which can be used in tuning of the active safety controllers in real time. We then look into automotive …
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A convex relaxation approach to set-membership identification
… used to derive an LPV model describing vehicle lateral dynamics based on a set of experimental data, and an LPV model to describe glucose-insulin dynamics for patients affected by Type I diabetes. Finally, the problem of identifying systems a-priori known to be stable is discussed. In …
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Plant-habitat interactions in brackish marshes
… shift of the salinity zones. This can affect the dynamics of the shore and foreland vegetation, and vegetation belts can be narrowed or fragmented. Against this background, it is crucial to gain a better understanding of the processes underlying the spatio temporal vegetation dynamics in brackish …