Project

IBS-Truck Integrated Braking & Steering for Active Safety of Heavy Vehicle Combinations

Period
1 January 2006-1 January 2011
Project manager
Mathias Lidberg

The objective of this project is to investigate the possibility of improving the active safety of heavy vehicle combinations with respect to yaw and roll stability. Today ESP (Electronic Stability Program) is only available for single trucks and tractors. Furthermore, only the braking system is activated to maintain stability. In the future other actuators will be available, e.g. active front and rear wheel steering. In this project we will determine how to take advantage of these possibilities for various vehicle combinations. The project also aims to develop competence in this area both in academia (Chalmers University of Technology) and industry (Volvo 3P).

Website
http://www.chalmers.se/safer/EN/projects/pre-crash-safety/associated-projects/i…

Short facts

Research area
Systems for Accident Prevention and AD
Financier(s)

IVSS

Partners

AB Volvo, Chalmers

Project type
Project

Related publications

Lateral stability control of a long heavy vehicle combination by active steering of the towed units

A complete vehicle combination controller for enhancing the lateral stability of long heavy vehicle combinations by active steering of the towed units is presented. As a case study, the controller is developed for a truck-dolly-semitrailer combination

Authors : Sogol Kharrazi, Jonas Fredriksson, Mathias Lidberg
Year : 2010
Published in : Proceedings of the "13th International IEEE Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems", September 2010, Madeira

Predictive Yaw and Lateral Control in Long Heavy Vehicles Combinations

We consider the problem of controlling the yaw and lateral dynamics in heavy vehicles, consisting of combina- tions of a truck and multiple towed units. In such heavy vehicle configurations, undesired yaw rate and lateral acceleration amplifications

Authors : M. Keshavarz Bahaghighat, Sogol Kharrazi, Mathias Lidberg, Paolo Falcone, Brad Scofield
Year : 2010
Published in : Proceedings of the "Proceedings of 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control", December 2010, Atlanta

Robustness analysis of a steering-based control strategy for improved lateral performance of a truck-dolly-semitrailer

A control strategy for lateral performance improvement of a truck-dolly-semitrailer combination by active steering of the towed units is presented. The effectiveness and robustness of the controller are verified by extensive analysis of the controller

Authors : Sogol Kharrazi, Mathias Lidberg, Jonas Fredriksson
Year : 2015
Published in : International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems (IJHVS), 22 (1), pp. 1-20