TY - GEN
T1 - Experimental investigation of a narrow leaning vehicle tilt stability control system
AU - Kidane, S.
AU - Rajamani, R.
AU - Alexander, L.
AU - Starr, P.
AU - Donath, M.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - One way of addressing traffic congestion is by more efficiently utilizing existing highway infrastructure. Narrow Tilting Vehicles that need reduced-width lanes can be part of the solution if they can be designed to be safe, stable and easy to operate. In this paper implementation and experimental investigation of a tilt stability control system for such a vehicle is presented. This control system is a combination of three different types of control schemes: Steering Tilt Control (STC) system, Direct Tilt Control (DTC) system and Tilt Brake system. The combined STC + DTC (SDTC) system is validated by running standard vehicle maneuver experiments such as turns and lane changes. The performance of the Tilt Brake algorithm is also verified for different brake switchover scenarios. Finally different experiment results are presented to demonstrate the effect of desired tilt angle definition on the handling of a narrow tilting vehicle.
AB - One way of addressing traffic congestion is by more efficiently utilizing existing highway infrastructure. Narrow Tilting Vehicles that need reduced-width lanes can be part of the solution if they can be designed to be safe, stable and easy to operate. In this paper implementation and experimental investigation of a tilt stability control system for such a vehicle is presented. This control system is a combination of three different types of control schemes: Steering Tilt Control (STC) system, Direct Tilt Control (DTC) system and Tilt Brake system. The combined STC + DTC (SDTC) system is validated by running standard vehicle maneuver experiments such as turns and lane changes. The performance of the Tilt Brake algorithm is also verified for different brake switchover scenarios. Finally different experiment results are presented to demonstrate the effect of desired tilt angle definition on the handling of a narrow tilting vehicle.
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U2 - 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282625
DO - 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282625
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:46449089196
SN - 1424409888
SN - 9781424409884
T3 - Proceedings of the American Control Conference
SP - 1612
EP - 1617
BT - Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, ACC
T2 - 2007 American Control Conference, ACC
Y2 - 9 July 2007 through 13 July 2007
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