A fast and accurate homography matrix method for four-wheel positioning detection was presented in the paper.Fewer sensors were required with simpler operation and faster detection.Firstly,eight feature points were ex...A fast and accurate homography matrix method for four-wheel positioning detection was presented in the paper.Fewer sensors were required with simpler operation and faster detection.Firstly,eight feature points were extracted by using the target detection algorithm based on the fitting method.Secondly,six feature points were obtained by line fitting-based selection.Thirdly,from the selected six feature points,five points were randomly chosen to minimize the re-projection error.Finally,four points were randomly selected from these five feature points to find the homography matrix,and the other point was back to the homography matrix for verification.The experimental results show that the mean re-projection error is reduced by about 3.41%−4.57%compared with the modified RANSAC(Random sample consensus)algorithm.With the optimized algorithm,the error is reduced by about 12.81%−13.86%compared with the improved RANSAC algorithm.Compared with traditional targets,the average calibration time is reduced by about 26.95%−27.88%.The results indicated that the combination of target algorithm and optimization algorithm could ensure the accuracy and reliability of four-wheel positioning.展开更多
The enhancement of vehicle handling stability and maneuverability through active and independent rear wheels control is presented. Firstly, the configuration of four-wheel independent steering prototype vehide is intr...The enhancement of vehicle handling stability and maneuverability through active and independent rear wheels control is presented. Firstly, the configuration of four-wheel independent steering prototype vehide is introduced briefly. Then the concrete overall design of the electronic controllers of four wheel independent steering system （4WIS） is formulated in details. Under the control strategy of zero sideslip angle at mass center, the mathematical model of 4WIS is established to deduce the equations of separated rear wheel steering angles. According to these equations, simulation analysis for 4WIS vehicle performances is finished to show that 4WIS vehicle can improve the maneuverability greatly at low speed and increase the handling stability at high speed. Finally, the road test of 4WIS vehide has performed to verify the correctness of simulation and show that compared with the conventional four wheel steering （4WS） vehicle, the 4WIS vehicle not only improves the kinematical harmony but also decreases steering resistance and lighten abrasion of tires.展开更多
Three major methods currently in the use of determining vehicle speed based on wheel speeds, the minimum wheel speed, minimum wheel speed corrected by slope method and the Kalman filter method, are analyzed, with meri...Three major methods currently in the use of determining vehicle speed based on wheel speeds, the minimum wheel speed, minimum wheel speed corrected by slope method and the Kalman filter method, are analyzed, with merits and defects of each approach stated. Through simulations, the Kalman filter method based on minimum wheel speed shows improved accuracy, in addition to better adaptivity to vehicle reference speed. It also can be used to acceleration ship regulation （ASR） in part-time four-wheel drive vehicles.展开更多
The most critical obstacle for four-wheel independently driven electric vehicles(4WID-EVs)is the driving range.Being the actuators of 4WID-EVs,motors account for its major power consumption.In this sense,by properly d...The most critical obstacle for four-wheel independently driven electric vehicles(4WID-EVs)is the driving range.Being the actuators of 4WID-EVs,motors account for its major power consumption.In this sense,by properly distributing torques to minimize the power consumption,the driving range of 4WID-EV can be effectively improved.This paper proposes a model predictive control(MPC)-based torque distribution scheme,which minimizes the power consumption of 4WID-EVs while guaranteeing its tracking performance of planar motions.By incorporating the motor model considering iron losses,the optimal torque distribution can be achieved without an additional torque controller.Also,for this reason,the proposed control scheme is computationally efficient,since the power consumption term to be optimized,which is expressed as the product of the motor voltages and currents,is much simpler than that derived from the efficiency map.With reasonable simplification and linearization,the MPC problem is converted to a quadratic programming problem,which can be solved efficiently.The simulation results in MATLAB and CarSim co-simulation environments demonstrate that the proposed scheme effectively reduces power consumption with guaranteed tracking performance.展开更多
Autonomous tracking control is one of the fundamental challenges in the field of robotic autonomous navigation,especially for future intelligent robots.In this paper,an improved pure pursuit control method is proposed...Autonomous tracking control is one of the fundamental challenges in the field of robotic autonomous navigation,especially for future intelligent robots.In this paper,an improved pure pursuit control method is proposed for the path tracking control problem of a four-wheel independent steering robot.Based on the analysis of the four-wheel independent steering model,the kinematic model and the steering geometry model of the robot are established.Then the path tracking control is realized by considering the correlation between the look-ahead distance and the velocity,as well as the lateral error between the robot and the reference path.The experimental results demonstrate that the improved pure pursuit control method has the advantages of small steady-state error,fast response and strong robustness,which can effectively improve the accuracy of path tracking.展开更多
In asymmetric conditions,the movement and loads of left/right wheels or front/back wheels of the aircraft with multi-wheel or four-wheel bogie landing gears are inconsistent.There are few open literatures related to a...In asymmetric conditions,the movement and loads of left/right wheels or front/back wheels of the aircraft with multi-wheel or four-wheel bogie landing gears are inconsistent.There are few open literatures related to anti-skid braking system for multi-wheels due to technology blockade.In China,the research on multi-channel control and non-equilibrium regulation has just started,and the design of multi-channel control system for anti-skid braking,the simulation of asymmetry taxiing under braking are not studied.In this paper,a dynamics model of ground movement for aircraft with four-wheel bogie landing gears is established for braking simulation, considering the six-degree-of-freedom aircraft body and the movement of bogies and wheels.A multi-channel anti-skid braking system is designed for the wheels of the main landing gears with four-wheel bogies.The eight wheels on left and right landing gears are divided into four groups,and each group is controlled via one channel.The cross protection and self-locked protection modules are added between different channels.A multi-channel anti-skid braking system with slip-ratio control or with slip-velocity control is established separately.Based on the aircraft dynamics model,aircraft braking to stop with anti-skid control on dry runway and on wet runway are simulated.The simulation results demonstrate that in asymmetric conditions,added with cross protection and self-locked protection modules,the slip-ratio-controlled braking system can automatically regulate brake torque to avoid deep slipping and correct aircraft course.The proposed research has reference value for improving brake control effect on wet runway.展开更多
The distribution of track tension on track link is complex when the tracked vehicles run at a high speed.A multi-drive track link structure,which changes the traditional induction wheel into the driving wheel was prop...The distribution of track tension on track link is complex when the tracked vehicles run at a high speed.A multi-drive track link structure,which changes the traditional induction wheel into the driving wheel was proposed.The mathematical model of the system was established and the distribution of track tension was studied.The combined simulation model of RecurDyn and Simulink of the structure with multi-drive track was established.The simulation results show that our proposed structure has more uniform tension distribution than traditional structures,especially under the high speed condition.The maximum tension can be reduced by 28 kN-36 kN and the transmission efficiency can be improved by10%-16% under high speed condition with this new structure.展开更多
The steering characteristic of a four-wheel-steering vehicle is numerically simulated for in-depth research of the handling stability of four-wheel steering. The research results show that the deteriorating tendency o...The steering characteristic of a four-wheel-steering vehicle is numerically simulated for in-depth research of the handling stability of four-wheel steering. The research results show that the deteriorating tendency of the steering stability due to the increase of the vehicle speed is improved obviously in the case of four-wheel steering. The approach of variable steering ratio is discussed. The use of the variable steering ratio can not only raise the steering stability of vechicles at high vehicle speed, but also reduce the dicomfort and steering burden of drivers; and hence is helpful for the subjective evaluation of four-wheel steering vehicles.展开更多
This paper presents an Integrated physics-data-based(IPDB)modeling of lateral vehicle dynamics with moving-window data snapshots.The IPDB model encodes the fundamental physical principle of four-wheel vehicle motions ...This paper presents an Integrated physics-data-based(IPDB)modeling of lateral vehicle dynamics with moving-window data snapshots.The IPDB model encodes the fundamental physical principle of four-wheel vehicle motions and simultaneously carries out the adaptiveness of the data-driven approach.Specifically,the traditional physics-based lateral dynamics considering four-wheel interaction are first derived into an affine linear-parameter-varying model,in which the vehicle-related parameters and motion variables are separated.Then,by using the Kronecker product,the IPDB model,directly formulated by the data snapshots in the moving-window fashion,is obtained for system representation.As a result,the IPDB technique rendered model is physically interpretable.The impacts of moving window length on modeling performance are numerically studied.The IPDB model accuracy is validated with data from CarSim simulations and experiments with passenger vehicles under various scenarios.It is further demonstrated that the proposed IPDB model is more data-efficient than other data-driven methods since it only uses the data snapshot in the moving window to update the model recursively.This characteristic enables the IPDB method with online modeling capability to adapt to varying driving scenarios.展开更多
在整体式车辆稳定性轨迹跟踪控制架构的基础之上,设计了一种引入预瞄曲率信息的自适应预测时域非线性模型预测控制(NMPC).基于预瞄的参考路径曲率点列指导控制维度变化,提升控制器对于路径曲率的动态响应能力;进一步地,引入状态协调优...在整体式车辆稳定性轨迹跟踪控制架构的基础之上,设计了一种引入预瞄曲率信息的自适应预测时域非线性模型预测控制(NMPC).基于预瞄的参考路径曲率点列指导控制维度变化,提升控制器对于路径曲率的动态响应能力;进一步地,引入状态协调优化机制,使控制器显示耦合至上一控制周期的车辆状态空间,有效避免预测时域变化造成的多步优化问题解耦效应,抑制因控制输入突变对轨迹跟踪控制任务的影响.结合两种优化方法,有效改善固定预测时域策略在高曲率轨迹跟踪中因累计误差造成的跟踪精度下降问题.最后,基于MATLAB/Simulink-CarSim联合仿真平台对算法进行了验证.经计算,高速单移线工况下,该方法在侧向偏差均值/峰值、纵向偏差均值/峰值、航向偏差均值/峰值指标中,相较于固定预测时域NMPC同比降低36.17%/15.25%、11.55%/38.58%、6.13%/25.27%;高速双移线工况下,同比降低30.28%/29.77%、25.07%/3.85%、11.02%/2.68%.此外,在高速低附着工况中,该方法仍能保证良好的控制精度及侧向稳定性,其峰值侧向偏差为0.2017 m、峰值纵向偏差为0.9744 km h^(-1)、峰值航向偏差为1.1936°、峰值质心侧偏角为1.9074°.展开更多
Four-wheel-steering (4WS) system can enhance vehicle cornering ability by steering the rear wheels in accordance with the front wheels steering and vehicle status. With such steering control system, it becomes possibl...Four-wheel-steering (4WS) system can enhance vehicle cornering ability by steering the rear wheels in accordance with the front wheels steering and vehicle status. With such steering control system, it becomes possible to improve the lateral stability and handling performance. In this paper, a new control method for 4WS vehicle is proposed, its rear wheels steering angle is in accordance with the angle of front wheels steering and vehicle yaw rate, and the effects of front wheels steering angle velocity are considered by adopting the fractional derivative theory. Some design specifications for control law are also given. The effects of the control method are verified by a kind of numerical scheme presented in this paper. The dynamic characteristics such as the side-slip angle and the yaw angle velocity of the vehicle gravity center are compared among three kinds of vehicles with different control methods. And the kinematics characteristics such as turning radius between 4WS and 2WS are also discussed. Nu- merical simulation shows that the control method presented can improve the transient response and reduce the turning radius of 4WS vehicle.展开更多
Improving the energy efficiency of an electric vehicle(EV) is an effective approach to extend its driving range. This paper proposes an integrated energy-oriented lateral stability controller(IESC) for a four-wheel in...Improving the energy efficiency of an electric vehicle(EV) is an effective approach to extend its driving range. This paper proposes an integrated energy-oriented lateral stability controller(IESC) for a four-wheel independent-drive EV(4 WID-EV) to optimize its energy consumption while maintaining vehicular stability during cornering. The IESC is a hierarchical controller with two levels. The high-level decision-making controller determines the virtual control inputs, i.e., the desired additional yaw moment and total wheel torque, while the low-level controller allocates the motor torques according to the virtual control inputs.In the high-level controller, the desired additional yaw moment is first calculated using a linear quadratic regulator(LQR) to minimize the control expenditure. Meanwhile, a stability weighting factor(SWF) based on phase plane analysis is proposed to adjust the additional yaw moment, which can reduce the additional energy consumption caused by the mismatch between the reference model and the actual vehicle. In addition to the yaw moment, the desired total wheel torque is calculated using a proportional-integral(PI) controller to track the desired longitudinal velocity. In the low-level controller, a multi-objective convex-optimization problem is established to optimize the motor torque by minimizing the energy consumption and considering the tire-road frictional limit and motor saturation. A globally optimal solution is obtained by using an active-set method. Finally,double-lane change(DLC) simulations are conducted using Car Sim and MATLAB/Simulink. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed controller achieves great lateral stability control performance and reduces the energy consumption by5.23% and 2.95% compared with the rule-based control strategy for high-and low-friction DLC maneuvers, respectively.展开更多
Based on Mecanum wheels and“Y”-shaped planetary wheels,we combine these two kinds of wheels’respective motion principle with their advantages to design a new type of four-wheeled robot:install the Mecanum wheels at...Based on Mecanum wheels and“Y”-shaped planetary wheels,we combine these two kinds of wheels’respective motion principle with their advantages to design a new type of four-wheeled robot:install the Mecanum wheels at the end of“Y”-shaped planetary wheel group.The wheel designed based on Mecanum wheels and“Y”-shaped planetary wheel can adapt to the complex terrain such as stairs,steps,and at the same time it can achieve the rotation of the whole body in a limited space.This paper studies the adaptability of the four-wheeled robot to the stairs,analyzing and calculating the parameters of the four-wheeled robot and the stairs.展开更多
To achieve the collision-free trajectory tracking of the four-wheeled mobile robot(FMR),existing methods resolve the tracking control and obstacle avoidance separately.Guaranteeing the synergistic robustness and smoot...To achieve the collision-free trajectory tracking of the four-wheeled mobile robot(FMR),existing methods resolve the tracking control and obstacle avoidance separately.Guaranteeing the synergistic robustness and smooth navigation of mobile robots subjected to motion uncertainties in a dynamic environment using this non-cooperative processing method is difficult.To address this challenge,this paper proposes an obstacle-circumventing adaptive control(OCAC)framework.Specifically,a novel anti-disturbance terminal slide mode control with adaptive gains is formulated,incorporating specified control laws for different stages.This formulation guarantees rapid convergence and simultaneous chattering elimination.By introducing sub-target points,a new sub-target dynamic tracking regression obstacle avoidance strategy is presented to transfer the obstacle avoidance problem into a dynamic tracking one,thereby reducing the burden of local path searching while ensuring system stability during obstacle circumvention.Comparative experiments demonstrate that the proposed OCAC method can strengthen the convergence and obstacle avoidance efficiency of the concerned FMR system.展开更多
基金supported by Anhui Province Key Research and Development Program(No.2022107020012)Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Project(No.JSGG20191129102008260).
文摘A fast and accurate homography matrix method for four-wheel positioning detection was presented in the paper.Fewer sensors were required with simpler operation and faster detection.Firstly,eight feature points were extracted by using the target detection algorithm based on the fitting method.Secondly,six feature points were obtained by line fitting-based selection.Thirdly,from the selected six feature points,five points were randomly chosen to minimize the re-projection error.Finally,four points were randomly selected from these five feature points to find the homography matrix,and the other point was back to the homography matrix for verification.The experimental results show that the mean re-projection error is reduced by about 3.41%−4.57%compared with the modified RANSAC(Random sample consensus)algorithm.With the optimized algorithm,the error is reduced by about 12.81%−13.86%compared with the improved RANSAC algorithm.Compared with traditional targets,the average calibration time is reduced by about 26.95%−27.88%.The results indicated that the combination of target algorithm and optimization algorithm could ensure the accuracy and reliability of four-wheel positioning.
文摘The enhancement of vehicle handling stability and maneuverability through active and independent rear wheels control is presented. Firstly, the configuration of four-wheel independent steering prototype vehide is introduced briefly. Then the concrete overall design of the electronic controllers of four wheel independent steering system （4WIS） is formulated in details. Under the control strategy of zero sideslip angle at mass center, the mathematical model of 4WIS is established to deduce the equations of separated rear wheel steering angles. According to these equations, simulation analysis for 4WIS vehicle performances is finished to show that 4WIS vehicle can improve the maneuverability greatly at low speed and increase the handling stability at high speed. Finally, the road test of 4WIS vehide has performed to verify the correctness of simulation and show that compared with the conventional four wheel steering （4WS） vehicle, the 4WIS vehicle not only improves the kinematical harmony but also decreases steering resistance and lighten abrasion of tires.
文摘Three major methods currently in the use of determining vehicle speed based on wheel speeds, the minimum wheel speed, minimum wheel speed corrected by slope method and the Kalman filter method, are analyzed, with merits and defects of each approach stated. Through simulations, the Kalman filter method based on minimum wheel speed shows improved accuracy, in addition to better adaptivity to vehicle reference speed. It also can be used to acceleration ship regulation （ASR） in part-time four-wheel drive vehicles.
基金supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under Project No.51737010.
文摘The most critical obstacle for four-wheel independently driven electric vehicles(4WID-EVs)is the driving range.Being the actuators of 4WID-EVs,motors account for its major power consumption.In this sense,by properly distributing torques to minimize the power consumption,the driving range of 4WID-EV can be effectively improved.This paper proposes a model predictive control(MPC)-based torque distribution scheme,which minimizes the power consumption of 4WID-EVs while guaranteeing its tracking performance of planar motions.By incorporating the motor model considering iron losses,the optimal torque distribution can be achieved without an additional torque controller.Also,for this reason,the proposed control scheme is computationally efficient,since the power consumption term to be optimized,which is expressed as the product of the motor voltages and currents,is much simpler than that derived from the efficiency map.With reasonable simplification and linearization,the MPC problem is converted to a quadratic programming problem,which can be solved efficiently.The simulation results in MATLAB and CarSim co-simulation environments demonstrate that the proposed scheme effectively reduces power consumption with guaranteed tracking performance.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61103157)。
文摘Autonomous tracking control is one of the fundamental challenges in the field of robotic autonomous navigation,especially for future intelligent robots.In this paper,an improved pure pursuit control method is proposed for the path tracking control problem of a four-wheel independent steering robot.Based on the analysis of the four-wheel independent steering model,the kinematic model and the steering geometry model of the robot are established.Then the path tracking control is realized by considering the correlation between the look-ahead distance and the velocity,as well as the lateral error between the robot and the reference path.The experimental results demonstrate that the improved pure pursuit control method has the advantages of small steady-state error,fast response and strong robustness,which can effectively improve the accuracy of path tracking.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.51075203)Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Funding(Grant No.NS2010033)
文摘In asymmetric conditions,the movement and loads of left/right wheels or front/back wheels of the aircraft with multi-wheel or four-wheel bogie landing gears are inconsistent.There are few open literatures related to anti-skid braking system for multi-wheels due to technology blockade.In China,the research on multi-channel control and non-equilibrium regulation has just started,and the design of multi-channel control system for anti-skid braking,the simulation of asymmetry taxiing under braking are not studied.In this paper,a dynamics model of ground movement for aircraft with four-wheel bogie landing gears is established for braking simulation, considering the six-degree-of-freedom aircraft body and the movement of bogies and wheels.A multi-channel anti-skid braking system is designed for the wheels of the main landing gears with four-wheel bogies.The eight wheels on left and right landing gears are divided into four groups,and each group is controlled via one channel.The cross protection and self-locked protection modules are added between different channels.A multi-channel anti-skid braking system with slip-ratio control or with slip-velocity control is established separately.Based on the aircraft dynamics model,aircraft braking to stop with anti-skid control on dry runway and on wet runway are simulated.The simulation results demonstrate that in asymmetric conditions,added with cross protection and self-locked protection modules,the slip-ratio-controlled braking system can automatically regulate brake torque to avoid deep slipping and correct aircraft course.The proposed research has reference value for improving brake control effect on wet runway.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51475045)
文摘The distribution of track tension on track link is complex when the tracked vehicles run at a high speed.A multi-drive track link structure,which changes the traditional induction wheel into the driving wheel was proposed.The mathematical model of the system was established and the distribution of track tension was studied.The combined simulation model of RecurDyn and Simulink of the structure with multi-drive track was established.The simulation results show that our proposed structure has more uniform tension distribution than traditional structures,especially under the high speed condition.The maximum tension can be reduced by 28 kN-36 kN and the transmission efficiency can be improved by10%-16% under high speed condition with this new structure.
文摘The steering characteristic of a four-wheel-steering vehicle is numerically simulated for in-depth research of the handling stability of four-wheel steering. The research results show that the deteriorating tendency of the steering stability due to the increase of the vehicle speed is improved obviously in the case of four-wheel steering. The approach of variable steering ratio is discussed. The use of the variable steering ratio can not only raise the steering stability of vechicles at high vehicle speed, but also reduce the dicomfort and steering burden of drivers; and hence is helpful for the subjective evaluation of four-wheel steering vehicles.
基金fulfilled by Southeast University are supported partially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 52402467 and Grant 52394263partially by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grants NO.BK20241324 and BK20233002+1 种基金partially by the"Southeast University Interdisciplinary Research Program for Young Scholars"The work fulfilled by Tianyi He are supported by Natural Science Foundation under award 1941524.
文摘This paper presents an Integrated physics-data-based(IPDB)modeling of lateral vehicle dynamics with moving-window data snapshots.The IPDB model encodes the fundamental physical principle of four-wheel vehicle motions and simultaneously carries out the adaptiveness of the data-driven approach.Specifically,the traditional physics-based lateral dynamics considering four-wheel interaction are first derived into an affine linear-parameter-varying model,in which the vehicle-related parameters and motion variables are separated.Then,by using the Kronecker product,the IPDB model,directly formulated by the data snapshots in the moving-window fashion,is obtained for system representation.As a result,the IPDB technique rendered model is physically interpretable.The impacts of moving window length on modeling performance are numerically studied.The IPDB model accuracy is validated with data from CarSim simulations and experiments with passenger vehicles under various scenarios.It is further demonstrated that the proposed IPDB model is more data-efficient than other data-driven methods since it only uses the data snapshot in the moving window to update the model recursively.This characteristic enables the IPDB method with online modeling capability to adapt to varying driving scenarios.
文摘在整体式车辆稳定性轨迹跟踪控制架构的基础之上,设计了一种引入预瞄曲率信息的自适应预测时域非线性模型预测控制(NMPC).基于预瞄的参考路径曲率点列指导控制维度变化,提升控制器对于路径曲率的动态响应能力;进一步地,引入状态协调优化机制,使控制器显示耦合至上一控制周期的车辆状态空间,有效避免预测时域变化造成的多步优化问题解耦效应,抑制因控制输入突变对轨迹跟踪控制任务的影响.结合两种优化方法,有效改善固定预测时域策略在高曲率轨迹跟踪中因累计误差造成的跟踪精度下降问题.最后,基于MATLAB/Simulink-CarSim联合仿真平台对算法进行了验证.经计算,高速单移线工况下,该方法在侧向偏差均值/峰值、纵向偏差均值/峰值、航向偏差均值/峰值指标中,相较于固定预测时域NMPC同比降低36.17%/15.25%、11.55%/38.58%、6.13%/25.27%;高速双移线工况下,同比降低30.28%/29.77%、25.07%/3.85%、11.02%/2.68%.此外,在高速低附着工况中,该方法仍能保证良好的控制精度及侧向稳定性,其峰值侧向偏差为0.2017 m、峰值纵向偏差为0.9744 km h^(-1)、峰值航向偏差为1.1936°、峰值质心侧偏角为1.9074°.
基金Supported by Ford-China Research and Development Foundation (Grant No. 50122153)
文摘Four-wheel-steering (4WS) system can enhance vehicle cornering ability by steering the rear wheels in accordance with the front wheels steering and vehicle status. With such steering control system, it becomes possible to improve the lateral stability and handling performance. In this paper, a new control method for 4WS vehicle is proposed, its rear wheels steering angle is in accordance with the angle of front wheels steering and vehicle yaw rate, and the effects of front wheels steering angle velocity are considered by adopting the fractional derivative theory. Some design specifications for control law are also given. The effects of the control method are verified by a kind of numerical scheme presented in this paper. The dynamic characteristics such as the side-slip angle and the yaw angle velocity of the vehicle gravity center are compared among three kinds of vehicles with different control methods. And the kinematics characteristics such as turning radius between 4WS and 2WS are also discussed. Nu- merical simulation shows that the control method presented can improve the transient response and reduce the turning radius of 4WS vehicle.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51675281,and 51805081)the National Science and Technology Major Project of China(Grant No.2018ZX04024001)+2 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant Nos.30918011101,and 309181B8809)and the Graduate Student Innovation Project of Jiangsu Province,China(Grant No.KYLX15_0341)the Chinese Scholarship Council for providing a scholarship(Grant No.201506840033)
文摘Improving the energy efficiency of an electric vehicle(EV) is an effective approach to extend its driving range. This paper proposes an integrated energy-oriented lateral stability controller(IESC) for a four-wheel independent-drive EV(4 WID-EV) to optimize its energy consumption while maintaining vehicular stability during cornering. The IESC is a hierarchical controller with two levels. The high-level decision-making controller determines the virtual control inputs, i.e., the desired additional yaw moment and total wheel torque, while the low-level controller allocates the motor torques according to the virtual control inputs.In the high-level controller, the desired additional yaw moment is first calculated using a linear quadratic regulator(LQR) to minimize the control expenditure. Meanwhile, a stability weighting factor(SWF) based on phase plane analysis is proposed to adjust the additional yaw moment, which can reduce the additional energy consumption caused by the mismatch between the reference model and the actual vehicle. In addition to the yaw moment, the desired total wheel torque is calculated using a proportional-integral(PI) controller to track the desired longitudinal velocity. In the low-level controller, a multi-objective convex-optimization problem is established to optimize the motor torque by minimizing the energy consumption and considering the tire-road frictional limit and motor saturation. A globally optimal solution is obtained by using an active-set method. Finally,double-lane change(DLC) simulations are conducted using Car Sim and MATLAB/Simulink. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed controller achieves great lateral stability control performance and reduces the energy consumption by5.23% and 2.95% compared with the rule-based control strategy for high-and low-friction DLC maneuvers, respectively.
文摘Based on Mecanum wheels and“Y”-shaped planetary wheels,we combine these two kinds of wheels’respective motion principle with their advantages to design a new type of four-wheeled robot:install the Mecanum wheels at the end of“Y”-shaped planetary wheel group.The wheel designed based on Mecanum wheels and“Y”-shaped planetary wheel can adapt to the complex terrain such as stairs,steps,and at the same time it can achieve the rotation of the whole body in a limited space.This paper studies the adaptability of the four-wheeled robot to the stairs,analyzing and calculating the parameters of the four-wheeled robot and the stairs.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.52275488 and 52105019)in part by the Key R&D Program of Hubei Province,China(Grant No.2022BAA064)in part by Dongguan Social Development Project,China(Grant No.20211800904902).
文摘To achieve the collision-free trajectory tracking of the four-wheeled mobile robot(FMR),existing methods resolve the tracking control and obstacle avoidance separately.Guaranteeing the synergistic robustness and smooth navigation of mobile robots subjected to motion uncertainties in a dynamic environment using this non-cooperative processing method is difficult.To address this challenge,this paper proposes an obstacle-circumventing adaptive control(OCAC)framework.Specifically,a novel anti-disturbance terminal slide mode control with adaptive gains is formulated,incorporating specified control laws for different stages.This formulation guarantees rapid convergence and simultaneous chattering elimination.By introducing sub-target points,a new sub-target dynamic tracking regression obstacle avoidance strategy is presented to transfer the obstacle avoidance problem into a dynamic tracking one,thereby reducing the burden of local path searching while ensuring system stability during obstacle circumvention.Comparative experiments demonstrate that the proposed OCAC method can strengthen the convergence and obstacle avoidance efficiency of the concerned FMR system.
