Open AccessHeading Control System for a Multi-body Vehicle with a Virtual Test Driver
Author(s) -
S. Postalcioglu Ozgen
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
advances in electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1844-7600
pISSN - 1582-7445
DOI - 10.4316/aece.2010.03002
Subject(s) - heading (navigation) , computer science , test (biology) , control system , control (management) , automotive engineering , simulation , artificial intelligence , engineering , aerospace engineering , paleontology , biology , electrical engineering
This paper includes a Heading Control (HC) system for a multi-body vehicle. HC system helps reducing the required torque from the driver and improves the lane keeping efficiency. HC system is important for safety and driver comfort in traffic. The controller performance is examined on a virtual test drive platform. The optimal control theory is applied to HC system and examined on a curved path and under a side wind disturbance. Different assistance levels are applied to see the characteristics of the controller with different virtual test drivers. The results are analyzed based on three performance indices; lane keeping performance (LKP) index, assist torque performance (ATP) index and driver torque performance (DTP) index. As seen from the results while using HC system the lateral displacement decreases as the lane keeping performance increases and the driver torque performance decreases as the assist torque performance increases