Performance and Safety Enhancement Strategies in Vehicle Dynamics and Ground Contact

• Other Authors: Farroni, Flavio (Editor), Genovese, Andrea (Editor), Sakhnevych, Aleksandr (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; History of engineering & technology; tire model parameters identification; artificial neural networks; curve fitting; Pacejka's magic formula; intelligent vehicles; autonomous vehicles; microscopic traffic simulation; autonomous driving; friction estimate; tire-based control; ADAS; potential friction; energy consumption and recovery; transmission layouts; fuel-cell electric vehicles; adhesion enhancement; dimple model; patterned surfaces; viscoelasticity; enhancement; articulated vehicles; stability analysis; nonlinear dynamic model; snake instability; eigenvalue analysis; central control; non-linear model-based predictive control; pitch behavior; predictive control; roll behavior; self-steering behavior; vehicle dynamics; viscoelastic modulus; rubber; friction; empirical modeling; autonomous emergency steering; multi-input multi-output model predictive control; actuator dynamics; control allocation; handling enhancement; road friction; wear; tyre; suspension; semi-active; handling; comfort; optimisation; directional stability; road profile; road unevenness; vehicle-road interaction; vertical vehicle excitation; tire models; tire tread; motorcycle; rider; screw axis; weave; wobble; multibody; gravel pavement; roughness; straightedge; power spectral density; international roughness index; vehicle response; driving comfort; sky-hook; in-wheel motor; semi-active suspension; quarter-car model; suspension performance; suspension test bench; vehicle stability; road models; quarter car models; limit cycles; acceleration speed portraits; speed oscillations; velocity bifurcations; noisy limit cycles; limit flows of trajectories; Sommerfeld effects; differential-algebraic systems; polar coordinates of roads; covariance equations; stability in mean; supercritical speeds; analytical travel speed amplitudes; Floquet theory applied to limit cycles; non-pneumatic tire; finite element analysis; steady state analysis; tire characterization; footprint; contact patch; longitudinal interaction; n/a
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