Enhanced/Robust Electronic Stability Control

Period

1 January 2012-30 June 2014

The project will contribute to the design of an Active Safety Function which avoids multiple-events and/or reduces their consequences. Current Electronic Stability Control (ESC) systems are well developed for the control of vehicle yaw motions on road surfaces but are not are not designed to counteract sudden disturbances that can arise from curb contacts, impacts with quardrails, lane-edge drop offs, or minor vehicle impacts. Improvements to current ESC systems are ongoing, but special attention to sudden and short duration disturbances may be difficult for sensor and control strategies to detect and analyze.

Website

http://www.chalmers.se/safer/EN/projects/pre-crash-safety/pre-studies/enhanced-…

Short facts

Research area

Systems for Accident Prevention and AD

Partners

Volvo Cars, Chalmers

Project no

AD3

Project type

SAFER connected project

Related publications

Optimized Brake-based Control of Path Lateral Deviation for Mitigation of Secondary Collisions

This paper considers brake-based lateral control of a passenger vehicle, for reducing secondary collision risk following an initial impact in a traffic accident. Since secondary collisions are associated with deviations from the original travel path, the

Authors : Derong Yang, Timothy Gordon, Bengt Jacobson, Mats Jonasson, Mathias Lidberg

Year : 2011

Published in : Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, 225 (12), pp 1587-1604

Post Impact Vehicle Path Control in Multiple Event Accidents

Recent statistics show that multiple-event accidents (MEAs) possess an increasing fraction of all vehicle traffic accidents. They are characterized by having at least one vehicle subjected to more than one harmful event, such as collision with another

Authors : Derong Yang

Year : 2011

A Nonlinear Post Impact Path Controller Based on Optimized Brake Sequences

This paper investigates brake-based path control of a passenger vehicle, aimed at reducing secondary collision risk following an initial impact in a traffic accident. Previous results from numerical optimisation showed that, at varying severity levels of

Authors : Derong Yang, Timothy J. Gordon, Bengt Jacobson, Mats Jonasson

Year : 2012

Published in : Vehicle System Dynamics, 50 (Suppl. 1), pp.131-149

Quasi-linear Optimal Path Controller Applied to Post-Impact Vehicle Dynamics

This paper investigates brake-based path control of a passenger vehicle, aimed at reducing secondary collision risk, following an initial impact in a traffic accident. This risk may be reduced if lateral deviations from the preimpact path can be minimized

Authors : Derong Yang, Timothy J. Gordon, Bengt Jacobson, Mats Jonasson

Year : 2012

Published in : IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 13 (4), pp. 1586-1598

An Optimal Path Controller Minimizing Longitudinal and Lateral Deviations after Light Collisions

This paper considers the problem of path control for a road vehicle immediately after it is disturbed by an initial light collision. Assuming that the driver cannot adequately control the vehicle during such an event, active chassis controls such as front

Authors : Derong Yang, Timothy J. Gordon, Bengt Jacobson, Mats Jonasson

Year : 2013

Published in : Proceedings of the16th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, October 2013, Hague

Closed-loop Controller for Post-Impact Vehicle Dynamics Using Individual Wheel Braking and Front Axle Steering

This paper presents a vehicle path controller for reducing the maximum lateral deviation (Ymax) after an initial impact in a traffic accident. In previous research, a Quasi-Linear Optimal Controller (QLOC) was proposed and applied to a simple vehicle model

Authors : Derong Yang, Mats Jonasson, Bengt Jacobson, Timothy Gordon

Year : 2013

Published in : International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems (in press)

Towards Evaluation of Post Impact Braking Function in Driving Simulator

This paper presents a method to evaluate the vehicle Post Impact Braking function in driving simulator environment. This function is designed to apply automatic braking after an initial impact on the vehicle body. Four representative impact scenarios and

Authors : Faouzi Al Mouatamid, Artem Kusachov, Bengt Jacobson, Derong Yang

Year : 2013

Published in : Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 2013, Manchester

Vehicle Dynamics Control after Impacts in Multiple-Event Accidents

Accidents statistics show that multiple-event accidents (MEAs) represent aconsiderable and increasing proportion of all vehicle traffic accidents. MEAs are characterized by having at least one vehicle subjected to more than one harmful event. MEAs now

Authors : Derong Yang

Year : 2013

Minimizing Vehicle Post-impact Path Lateral Deviation Using Optimized Braking and Steering Sequences

This paper investigates the optimal control of a vehicle, after a light impact during a traffic accident. To reduce the risk of secondary events, the control target is set: to minimize the maximum lateral deviation from the initial path. In previous

Authors : Derong Yang, Bengt Jacobson, Mats Jonasson, Timothy Gordon

Year : 2014

Published in : International Journal of Automotive Technology, 15 (1), pp. 7-17

Prediction of the Effectiveness Potential of a Post Impact Stability Control System for Passenger Cars in Secondary Collisions following an Initial Side Impact

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Authors : Bengt Jacobson, Derong Yang, Mikael Thor, Jianbo Lu, Mathias Lidberg

Year : 2014

Published in : FISITA 2014 World Automotive Congress, June 2014, Maastricht

Benefit Prediction of Passenger Car Post Impact Stability Control Based on Accident Statistics and Vehicle Dynamics Simulations

Accident statistics showed that about 30% of passenger car accidents are multiple-impact events (MIE). Current Electronic Stability Control (ESC) systems are well designed for vehicle yaw motion control due to aggressive driving maneuvers, but not for that

Authors : Derong Yang, Bengt Jacobson, Mathias Lidberg

Year : 2009

Published in : Proceedings of the "21st IAVSD Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks", August 2009, Stockholm

Post-Impact Vehicle Path Control by Optimization of Individual Wheel Braking Sequences

In this paper the effectiveness of brake-based path control under typical post-impact conditions is investigated. Accident analysis shows that the secondary collision in multiple-events accidents can be mitigated or avoided by reducing the lateral path

Authors : Derong Yang, Timothy Gordon, Mathias Lidberg, Mats Jonasson, Bengt Jacobson

Year : 2010

Published in : Proceedings of the "10th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control", August 2010, Loughborough