The Influence of Disablement of Various Brakes on the Dry Stopping Performance and Stability of a Tractor-Semitrailer

Dunn, Ashley L.; Tanner, C. Brian; Morr, Douglas R.; Bayan, Fawzi; Noll, S.; Sauer, Eric; Cornetto, Anthony; Pearlman, Alan S.; Boggess, Brian M.; Wiechel, John F.; Guenther, Dennis A.

doi:10.4271/2009-01-0099

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“…Due to the special articulated structure, jackknife and coordination stability have drawn wide attention. Dunn et al rigorously developed a 15-state model using Lagrange's method and studied in detail the effects on jackknife stability when using brakes under different road adhesion coefficients [3][4][5]. To protect the vehicle from spinning and realize improved cornering performance, van de Molengraft-Luijten et al employed the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion and bifurcation theory method to get a system equilibrium approximation near the zero value for the forward speed and front wheel steering angle, which revealed the vehicle's instability under high speeds and substantial steering [6,7].…”

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Bifurcation of Lane Change and Control on Highway for Tractor-Semitrailer under Rainy Weather

Peng

Guan

Zhang

et al. 2017

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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A new method is proposed for analyzing the nonlinear dynamics and stability in lane changes on highways for tractor-semitrailer under rainy weather. Unlike most of the literature associated with a simulated linear dynamic model for tractor-semitrailers steady steering on dry road, a verified 5DOF mechanical model with nonlinear tire based on vehicle test was used in the lane change simulation on low adhesion coefficient road. According to Jacobian matrix eigenvalues of the vehicle model, bifurcations of steady steering and sinusoidal steering on highways under rainy weather were investigated using a numerical method. Furthermore, based on feedback linearization theory, taking the tractor yaw rate and joint angle as control objects, a feedback linearization controller combined with AFS and DYC was established. The numerical simulation results reveal that Hopf bifurcations are identified in steady and sinusoidal steering conditions, which translate into an oscillatory behavior leading to instability. And simulations of urgent step and single-lane change in high velocity show that the designed controller has good effects on eliminating bifurcations and improving lateral stability of tractor-semitrailer, during lane changing on highway under rainy weather. It is a valuable reference for safety design of tractor-semitrailers to improve the traffic safety with driver-vehicle-road closed-loop system.

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Bifurcation of Lane Change and Control on Highway for Tractor-Semitrailer under Rainy Weather

Peng

Guan

Zhang

et al. 2017

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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“…The braking coordination of articulated vehicle means that the maximal difference of braking delay time between any two wheel axles of the whole articulated vehicle should be small enough to ensure the consistency and stability in actual braking conditions. Traditionally, the braking coordination is evaluated through analyzing the differences in the pressure build-up time of different wheel axles [13][14][15]. For this kind of evaluation, pressure gauges need to be installed along air braking pipeline to measure brake pressures at different wheel axles over time.…”

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A Novel Dynamic Measurement System for Evaluating the Braking Coordination of Articulated Vehicles

Chen

2016

Journal of Sensors

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The braking coordination between tractor and semitrailer is vital to the safety of articulated vehicles. Traditional evaluation about braking coordination is based on the pressure measurement along air braking pipeline, which needs to change original braking structure to install gauges and cannot directly reflect the final braking coordination of different wheels. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes a novel dynamic measurement system for evaluating the braking coordination of articulated vehicles. During the brake test, all wheel velocities of the whole articulated vehicle are synchronously obtained through a specially designed distributed acquisition platform. To effectively eliminate gross errors and noises in wheel angular velocity data, a 3-order autoregressive (AR) model and an improved-thresholding wavelet filtering algorithm are developed. Further, a novel direct evaluation method about braking coordination is proposed according to the differences in angular velocity dropping time of all wheels. Finally, the overall system is assessed through real field tests. The results validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed system.

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Bifurcation and robust control analysis to tractor-semitrailer with interference on rainy slippery road

Zhang

Peng

et al. 2020

Future Generation Computer Systems

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The Influence of Disablement of Various Brakes on the Dry Stopping Performance and Stability of a Tractor-Semitrailer

Cited by 11 publications

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Bifurcation of Lane Change and Control on Highway for Tractor-Semitrailer under Rainy Weather

Bifurcation of Lane Change and Control on Highway for Tractor-Semitrailer under Rainy Weather

A Novel Dynamic Measurement System for Evaluating the Braking Coordination of Articulated Vehicles

Bifurcation and robust control analysis to tractor-semitrailer with interference on rainy slippery road

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