Reprint

Performance and Safety Enhancement Strategies in Vehicle Dynamics and Ground Contact

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March 2022
346 pages
  • ISBN978-3-0365-3417-6 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-0365-3418-3 (PDF)

This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Performance and Safety Enhancement Strategies in Vehicle Dynamics and Ground Contact that was published in

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Summary

Recent trends in vehicle engineering are testament to the great efforts that scientists and industries have made to seek solutions to enhance both the performance and safety of vehicular systems. This Special Issue aims to contribute to the study of modern vehicle dynamics, attracting recent experimental and in-simulation advances that are the basis for current technological growth and future mobility. The area involves research, studies, and projects derived from vehicle dynamics that aim to enhance vehicle performance in terms of handling, comfort, and adherence, and to examine safety optimization in the emerging contexts of smart, connected, and autonomous driving.This Special Issue focuses on new findings in the following topics:(1) Experimental and modelling activities that aim to investigate interaction phenomena from the macroscale, analyzing vehicle data, to the microscale, accounting for local contact mechanics; (2) Control strategies focused on vehicle performance enhancement, in terms of handling/grip, comfort and safety for passengers, motorsports, and future mobility scenarios; (3) Innovative technologies to improve the safety and performance of the vehicle and its subsystems; (4) Identification of vehicle and tire/wheel model parameters and status with innovative methodologies and algorithms; (5) Implementation of real-time software, logics, and models in onboard architectures and driving simulators; (6) Studies and analyses oriented toward the correlation among the factors affecting vehicle performance and safety; (7) Application use cases in road and off-road vehicles, e-bikes, motorcycles, buses, trucks, etc.

Format
  • Hardback
License
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
tire model parameters identification; artificial neural networks; curve fitting; Pacejka’s magic formula; intelligent vehicles; autonomous vehicles; microscopic traffic simulation; autonomous driving; friction estimate; tire-based control; ADAS; potential friction; energy consumption and recovery; transmission layouts; fuel-cell electric vehicles; adhesion enhancement; dimple model; patterned surfaces; viscoelasticity; enhancement; articulated vehicles; stability analysis; nonlinear dynamic model; snake instability; eigenvalue analysis; central control; non-linear model-based predictive control; pitch behavior; predictive control; roll behavior; self-steering behavior; vehicle dynamics; viscoelastic modulus; rubber; friction; empirical modeling; autonomous emergency steering; multi-input multi-output model predictive control; actuator dynamics; control allocation; handling enhancement; road friction; wear; tyre; suspension; semi-active; handling; comfort; optimisation; directional stability; road profile; road unevenness; vehicle-road interaction; vertical vehicle excitation; tire models; tire tread; motorcycle; rider; screw axis; weave; wobble; multibody; gravel pavement; roughness; straightedge; power spectral density; international roughness index; vehicle response; driving comfort; sky-hook; in-wheel motor; semi-active suspension; quarter-car model; road unevenness; suspension performance; suspension test bench; vehicle stability; road models; quarter car models; limit cycles; acceleration speed portraits; speed oscillations; velocity bifurcations; noisy limit cycles; limit flows of trajectories; Sommerfeld effects; differential-algebraic systems; polar coordinates of roads; covariance equations; stability in mean; supercritical speeds; analytical travel speed amplitudes; Floquet theory applied to limit cycles; non-pneumatic tire; vehicle dynamics; finite element analysis; steady state analysis; tire characterization; footprint; contact patch; longitudinal interaction; n/a