scholarly journals Emergency vehicle maneuvers and control laws for automated highway systems

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Toy ◽  
K. Leung ◽  
L. Alvarez ◽  
R. Horowitz

Due to the ever increasing need for transportation, there will be increasingly automobile overloads except if some sweeping measures are taken. There are numerous conceivable approaches to diminish blockage, (for example, constructing new streets, new evaluating strategies, move of transport from street to prepare or send, et cetera). In any case, since activity blockage is a squeezing issue that seriously affects both the economy and nature, there unquestionably is a requirement for measures that can be executed on the here and now. In this paper we talk about from a frameworks and control perspective a portion of the techniques that can be utilized to decrease activity clog issues. We will center around Warangal high way (NH 164) and ring streets First we quickly examine the Automated Highway Systems (AHS) structure, which prompts a decrease of activity clog and to a superior utilization of the accessible limit of the transportation organize. ATMS utilize propelled displaying, recreation, streamlining and media transmission procedures to create and to actualize different activity strategy measures to decrease movement blockage. The between vehicle detachment, which relies upon the vehicle braking ability, control circle delays and working velocity, is then used to process siteautonomous upper limits on AHS limit with regards to a given blend of vehicle classes. The affectability of the limit as for the level of between vehicle participation, registration strategies (administering least adequate vehicle-braking capacity), thruway speed cutoff points, and path utilize arrangements (overseeing the sharing of a path by numerous vehicle classes) is additionally examined.


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 462-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Swaroop ◽  
J. K. Hedrick

An important aspect of an Automated Highway System is automatic vehicle following. Automatic Vehicle follower systems must address the problem of string stability, i.e., the problem of spacing error propagation, and in some cases, amplification upstream from one vehicle to another, due to some disturbance at the head of the platoon. An automatic vehicle following controller design that is (asymptotically) stable for one vehicle following another is not necessarily (asymptotically) stable for a string of vehicles. The dynamic coupling between vehicles in such close-formation platoons is a function of the available information (communicated as well as sensed), decentralized feedback control laws and the vehicle spacing policy in use. In the first half of this paper, we develop a framework for establishing conditions for stability of the string in the presence of such dynamic interactions. We then develop a metric for analyzing the performance of a platoon resulting from different vehicle following control algorithms. This metric is the guaranteed rate of attenuation/non-amplification of spacing errors from one vehicle to another. In the latter half of this paper, we outline and analyze various constant spacing vehicle follower algorithms. All these algorithms are analyzed for sensing/actuation lags.


Robotica ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Levent Gümüşel ◽  
Nurhan Gürsel Özmen

SUMMARYIn this study, modelling and control of a two-link robot manipulator whose first link is rigid and the second one is flexible is considered for both land and underwater conditions. Governing equations of the systems are derived from Hamilton's Principle and differential eigenvalue problem. A computer program is developed to solve non-linear ordinary differential equations defining the system dynamics by using Runge–Kutta algorithm. The response of the system is evaluated and compared by applying classical control methods; proportional control and proportional + derivative (PD) control and an intelligent technique; integral augmented fuzzy control method. Modelling of drag torques applied to the manipulators moving horizontally under the water is presented. The study confirmed the success of the proposed integral augmented fuzzy control laws as well as classical control methods to drive flexible robots in a wide range of working envelope without overshoot compared to the classical controls.


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