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  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,236 Views
11 Pages

In this paper, the noise vibration harshness (NVH) road surface morphology of a test site is scanned to establish a data processing system for the road surface, which can be used to transform the road surface morphology into the road surface excitati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,598 Views
28 Pages

Whole-body vibration (WBV) remains a critical factor influencing ride comfort, driver performance and occupational health in vehicle applications. Despite the widespread use of standardized indicators, assessing WBV exposure and its perceptual implic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
825 Views
22 Pages

Effects of Road Surface Excitation on Eccentricity in In-Wheel PMSMs and a Torque-Ripple Current Index for Fault Detection

  • Quoc Trieu Nguyen,
  • Van Nghia Le,
  • Anh Duc Nguyen,
  • Van Hieu Nguyen and
  • Valentin Ivanov

1 August 2026

This study investigates the influence of road-induced vertical excitation on air-gap eccentricity in in-wheel permanent magnet synchronous motors. A coupled electromechanical simulation framework is developed by integrating a field-oriented controlle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reliability Analysis and Evaluation of Automotive Systems, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,266 Views
26 Pages

30 September 2024

This paper investigates and analyzes the dynamic response of asphalt pavement under pavement-unevenness excitation based on an orthogonal vector function system and efficient DVP (dual variable and position) method. Firstly, starting from the pavemen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,714 Views
14 Pages

23 April 2020

Stiffness is an important mechanical characteristic of asphalt mixtures used in the wearing course. It is one of the determining factors in the generation of tyre/road noise. The dynamic stiffness of the upper layer of the road surface depends on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Production, Application and Properties of Bitumen)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,011 Views
23 Pages

27 January 2022

Considering the actual situation of moving vehicles acting on road surfaces, a dynamic model of a heavy vehicle–road coupling system was established based on the traditional vehicle–road vibration model. Firstly, a seven-degree-of-freedom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Structural Health Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,312 Views
19 Pages

12 November 2025

This research presents a harmonized optimal preview control strategy for a semi-active suspension system (SASS) with a controlled damper varied between the upper and lower bounds of the damping coefficient and an active aerodynamic surface (AAS) cont...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
3,151 Views
23 Pages

8 March 2024

Electric vehicles with hub motors have integrated the motor into the wheel, which increase the unsprung mass of the vehicle, and intensifies the vibration of the underspring components. The motor excitation during driving also intensifies the wheel v...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,550 Views
23 Pages

The road surface adhesion coefficient is a key parameter affecting the dynamic control and driving safety of vehicles. Addressing the limitations of vehicle dynamics-based estimation methods under low-excitation conditions, this paper proposes a visi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,422 Views
15 Pages

25 February 2022

Ride comfort and driving safety are highly vulnerable to the undesirable excessive vibrations caused by road surface irregularities and the imperfect in-vehicle network (IVN). The main contribution of this paper consists of proposing a near-optimal v...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,585 Views
15 Pages

Tire performance is determined based on the interaction between the tire and the road as a counter-surface, and is of the utmost importance for driving safety. When studying tire friction and abrasion, the characteristics of the roads/counter-surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,756 Views
20 Pages

Vehicle–Bridge Interaction Modelling Using Precise 3D Road Surface Analysis

  • Maja Kreslin,
  • Peter Češarek,
  • Aleš Žnidarič,
  • Darko Kokot,
  • Jan Kalin and
  • Rok Vezočnik

22 January 2024

Uneven road surfaces are the primary source of excitation in the dynamic interaction between a bridge and a vehicle and can lead to errors in bridge weigh-in-motion (B-WIM) systems. In order to correctly reproduce this interaction in a numerical mode...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors in Civil Structural Health Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,251 Views
19 Pages

21 August 2023

According to a previous study, a concrete bridge bearing vehicles traveling at lower speeds suffers from more severe apparent damage compared to one bearing vehicles traveling at higher speeds. The authors of the study subjectively inferred that the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,971 Views
26 Pages

Research on Control Strategy of Semi-Active Suspension System Based on Fuzzy Adaptive PID-MPC

  • Cheng Cai,
  • Guiyong Wang,
  • Zhigang Wang,
  • Raoqiang Li and
  • Zhiwei Li

5 September 2025

To address the dynamic characteristics of vehicle semi-active suspension systems under special operating conditions and multi-source excitations, this paper proposes a fuzzy adaptive proportional–integral–derivative model predictive contr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,159 Views
43 Pages

Review of Uneven Road Surface Information Perception Methods for Suspension Preview Control

  • Yujie Shen,
  • Kai Jing,
  • Kecheng Sun,
  • Changning Liu,
  • Yi Yang and
  • Yanling Liu

19 September 2025

Accurate detection of road surface information is crucial for enhancing vehicle driving safety and ride comfort. To overcome the limitation that traditional suspension systems struggle to respond to road excitations in real time due to time delays in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Environment Perception, Decision Planning, and Intelligent Control of Transport Equipment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,393 Views
24 Pages

A Variable Horizon Model Predictive Control for Magnetorheological Semi-Active Suspension with Air Springs

  • Gang Li,
  • Lin Zhong,
  • Wenjun Sun,
  • Shaohua Zhang,
  • Qianjie Liu,
  • Qingsheng Huang and
  • Guoliang Hu

29 October 2024

To improve the characteristics of traditional model predictive control (MPC) semi-active suspension that cannot achieve the optimal suspension control effect under different conditions, a variable horizon model predictive control (VHMPC) method is de...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,225 Views
16 Pages

24 July 2024

This study presents an effective control strategy for improving the dynamic performance index of a two degrees-of-freedom (DOF) quarter-car model equipped with an active suspension system that collaborates with an active aerodynamic surface, using op...

(This article belongs to the Topic Vehicle Dynamics and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,518 Views
15 Pages

Improved MobileNet V3-Based Identification Method for Road Adhesion Coefficient

  • Binglin Li,
  • Jianqiang Xu,
  • Yufeng Lian,
  • Fengyu Sun,
  • Jincheng Zhou and
  • Jun Luo

29 August 2024

To enable the timely adjustment of the control strategy of automobile active safety systems, enhance their capacity to adapt to complex working conditions, and improve driving safety, this paper introduces a new method for predicting road surface sta...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,440 Views
20 Pages

6 April 2023

The comfort of a bus running on different road conditions is a matter of public concern. In this paper, the differential equations of motion are established for a bus running on different road conditions and the whole driving process is mechanically...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,096 Views
22 Pages

20 October 2025

The tire-road friction coefficient (TRFC) is a critical parameter that significantly influences vehicle safety, handling stability, and driving comfort. Existing estimation methods based on vehicle dynamics suffer from a substantial decline in accura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,505 Views
35 Pages

Beyond Linear Limits: Advanced Nonlinear Suspensions for Enhanced Vibration Control

  • Farhad S. Samani,
  • Amirali Mehrabian,
  • Antonio Zippo and
  • Francesco Pellicano

10 February 2026

The vehicle suspensions have the primary task of attenuating the forces coming from the road surface. The performance is directly linked to the stiffness of the suspension system. Traditional suspensions, composed of linear elements, effectively damp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mastering Vibrations: The Latest Breakthroughs in Control for Mechanical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,249 Views
19 Pages

Optimal Design of Dual Pantograph Parameters for Electrified Roads

  • Libo Yuan,
  • Wei Zhou,
  • Huifu Jiang,
  • Yongjian Ma and
  • Sijun Huang

Electrified roads represent an emerging transportation solution in the context of global energy transition. These systems enable vehicles equipped with roof-mounted pantographs to draw power from overhead contact lines while in motion, allowing conti...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Supply and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,020 Views
22 Pages

12 August 2024

In recent years, computer vision technology has been extensively applied in the field of defect detection for transportation infrastructure, particularly in the detection of road surface cracks. Given the variations in performance and parameters acro...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,172 Views
16 Pages

Photoluminescent Applications for Urban Pavements

  • Adriana H. Martínez,
  • Teresa López-Montero,
  • Rodrigo Miró and
  • Ricard Puig

20 October 2023

Photoluminescent materials used on street and road pavements could absorb solar energy during the day and emit it at night, which will save energy and improve visibility with a consequent improvement in road safety. The aim of this study is to evalua...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Pavement Design and Road Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
358 Views
15 Pages

5 August 2026

Vehicle vibration and noise are predominantly driven by road-surface excitation, making robust prediction of these phenomena based on pavement roughness a central challenge in automotive development. This paper presents a fully automated pipeline tha...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,257 Views
21 Pages

10 October 2025

In this study, a nonlinear dynamic model is developed to examine the stability and vibration behavior of a self-balancing electric Segway operating over irregular stochastic terrains. The Segway is treated as a three-degrees-of-freedom cart–inv...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,396 Views
25 Pages

10 January 2025

The different sources of noise in a vehicle have long been known, and they include noise from the engine and other mechanical parts, aerodynamic noise, and rolling noise. More specifically, the latter concerns the interaction between the tire and the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling, Simulation and Data Analysis in Acoustical Problems–Volume 3)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,084 Views
19 Pages

25 May 2022

Aiming at the negative vibration effect caused by the increased unsprung mass of the hub motor-air suspension (HM-AS) vehicle and the unbalanced magnetic force (UMF) of the hub motor, a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) air suspension control strategy...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,168 Views
15 Pages

As off-road vehicles, in addition to field transportation, another vital function of agricultural tractors is to provide power for field machinery. Therefore, the dynamic performance of the power take-off (PTO) driveline directly affects the field re...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,248 Views
28 Pages

Numerical Analysis of the Vehicle Damping Performance of a Magnetorheological Damper with an Additional Flow Energy Path

  • Minje Kim,
  • Seungin Yoo,
  • Dongjin Yoon,
  • Chanyoung Jin,
  • Seongjae Won and
  • Jinwook Lee

16 November 2024

Vehicles experience various frequency excitations from road surfaces. Recent research has focused on active dampers that adapt their damping forces according to these conditions. However, traditional magnetorheological (MR) dampers face a “bloc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,570 Views
20 Pages

1 April 2026

Continuous impact vibrations caused by uneven road surfaces (such as speed bumps) can significantly reduce the trajectory tracking accuracy of mobile manipulator. This study proposes for the first time an integrated framework combining a semi-active...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robotic Intelligence Development of AI in Robot Perception, Learning, and Decision)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,987 Views
14 Pages

Research on Path Tracking of Unmanned Spray Based on Dual Control Strategy

  • Haojun Wen,
  • Xiaodong Ma,
  • Chenjian Qin,
  • Hao Chen and
  • Huanyu Kang

The high clearance spray is a type of large and efficient agricultural machinery used for plant protection, and path tracking control is the key to ensure the efficient and safe operation of spray. Sliding mode control and other methods are commonly...

(This article belongs to the Topic Current Research on Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Views
18 Pages

A Hybrid Method for Wheel Hub Stress Field Prediction Under Non-Stationary Excitation

  • Yixin Zhou,
  • Zhaojun Li,
  • Yewei Zou,
  • Jiali Feng and
  • Wei Huang

19 October 2026

Wheel lifespan directly affects vehicle safety and economic efficiency. Uneven road surfaces impose non-stationary excitation on wheel hubs during vehicle operation, which brings difficulties to the accurate prediction of wheel hub failures. The serv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
824 Views
22 Pages

Effect of Vibration on Automotive Transmission Radial Lip Seal Leakage

  • Petros Nomikos,
  • Nick Morris,
  • Ramin Rahmani and
  • Homer Rahnejat

16 March 2026

The European Union’s regulatory mandate requirements for vehicular components include the integrity of sealing performance, mitigating leaks from fuel tanks and transmission systems in order to guard against environmental pollution. Non-complia...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,257 Views
20 Pages

19 April 2025

This paper aims to solve the problems of poor mobility, passability, and stability in heavy-duty vehicles, and proposes an active suspension system control strategy based on position–force feedback optimal control to coordinately enhance vehicl...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
347 Views
30 Pages

11 September 2026

Long-afterglow self-luminous road marking coatings are promising for improving nighttime visibility, but their application is restricted by the poor water stability of SrAl2O4:Eu2+,Dy3+ phosphors and weak interfacial compatibility with polymer matric...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coatings for Road and Transportation Infrastructure: From Conventional Markings to Advanced Optical Functional Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,892 Views
24 Pages

16 June 2023

For improving the night recognition of road markings and enhancing the driving safety of asphalt pavements, single-factor optimization is used to investigate the effects of the component materials, including luminescent power, pigment, filler, and an...

(This article belongs to the Section Functional Polymer Coatings and Films)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,918 Views
35 Pages

The suspension system is a crucial part of an electric vehicle, which directly affects its handling performance, driving comfort, and driving safety. The dynamics of the 8-DoF full-vehicle suspension with seat active control are established based on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design, Modelling and Control Strategies for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,550 Views
27 Pages

Human–Seat–Vehicle Multibody Nonlinear Model of Biomechanical Response in Vehicle Vibration Environment

  • Margarita Prokopovič,
  • Kristina Čižiūnienė,
  • Jonas Matijošius,
  • Marijonas Bogdevičius and
  • Edgar Sokolovskij

24 June 2025

Especially in real-world circumstances with uneven road surfaces and impulsive shocks, nonlinear dynamic effects in vehicle systems can greatly skew biometric data utilized to track passenger and driver physiological states. By creating a thorough mu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Analysis and Research in the Field of Vehicle Traffic Safety, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
590 Views
15 Pages

The Influence of Run-Flat Tires on the Ride Comfort and Dynamic Behavior of the Vehicle

  • Constantin-Cosmin Danci,
  • Nicolae Burnete,
  • Adrian Todoruț,
  • Nicolae Cordoș and
  • Irina Duma

15 August 2026

Run-flat tires improve vehicle safety by maintaining mobility under air pressure loss, yet their higher vertical stiffness is widely perceived to reduce ride comfort. This work proposes a simulation-based approach for assessing the impact of tire con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations and Challenges in Automotive Mobility and Automation Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
853 Views
38 Pages

19 August 2026

Ride quality—encompassing vehicle comfort, vibration isolation, and noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH)—has become a key competitive differentiator in modern automobiles. This paper presents a comprehensive update to the foundational li...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Dynamics and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,693 Views
33 Pages

10 September 2025

The dynamic load caused by vehicle vibration due to an uneven pavement surface is a primary factor affecting the structural performance and service life of asphalt pavement. As the principles of vibration mechanics, in conjunction with the coherence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,240 Views
19 Pages

3 March 2021

This paper proposes a new switching adaptive fuzzy controller and applies it to vibration control of a vehicle seat suspension equipped with a semi-active magnetorheological (MR) damper. The proposed control system consists of three functioned filter...

(This article belongs to the Collection The Development and Application of Fuzzy Logic)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,889 Views
19 Pages

Modeling and Validation of a Passenger Car Tire Using Finite Element Analysis

  • Haniyeh Fathi,
  • Zeinab El-Sayegh,
  • Jing Ren and
  • Moustafa El-Gindy

9 February 2024

This paper focuses on the modeling and analysis of a four-groove passenger car tire, size 235/55R19, using finite element analysis. The Mooney–Rivlin material model is employed to define the hyperelastic behavior of the tire rubber compounds fo...

(This article belongs to the Topic Vehicle Dynamics and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,076 Views
16 Pages

16 May 2023

Nowadays, many scholars at home and abroad have studied the vibration of agricultural machinery, especially harvesting machinery. However, this research has lacked the analysis of vibration characteristics of harvesters under the condition of multi-v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Technology in Agricultural Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,597 Views
23 Pages

Effects of Pitch Stabilization Buffer on the Dynamic Performance of Frame-Type Landing Gear

  • Xiazheng Shi,
  • Anyuan Yu,
  • Hong Nie,
  • Ming Zhang,
  • Xiwen Gui,
  • Shaofei Yang,
  • Yuting Zheng and
  • Tianxing Liu

During the landing and taxiing process of aircraft, the frame-type landing gear (FTLG) usually generates large pitch vibrations under external excitation. Excessive vibration increases localized loads on the landing gear, which may lead to localized...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,308 Views
17 Pages

20 March 2024

The construction of lunar surface roads is conducive to improving the efficiency of lunar space transportation. The use of lunar in situ resources is the key to the construction of lunar bases. In order to explore the strength development of a simula...

(This article belongs to the Topic Geopolymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
194 Views
38 Pages

Design and Testing of a Folding Cotton Wide-Width Film-Mulching Seeder

  • Xuejun Zhang,
  • Huazhi Li,
  • Jinshan Yan,
  • Zenglu Shi and
  • Duijin Wang

10 October 2026

To address the problems of excessive transportation width, limited operational flexibility, and insufficient adaptability to uneven seedbed conditions of wide-width cotton film-mulching seeders, this study designed a horizontal-folding cotton wide-wi...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,256 Views
20 Pages

Simulation and Experimental Study on Bridge–Vehicle Impact Coupling Effect under Pavement Local Deterioration

  • Jiwei Zhong,
  • Jiyuan Wang,
  • Yuyin Jiang,
  • Ruichang Li,
  • Xiedong Zhang and
  • Yingqi Liu

With the rapid development of China’s transportation network, the demand for bridge construction is increasing, the traffic volume is increasing yearly, and the average vehicle speed and the frequency of overloaded vehicles crossing bridges are...

(This article belongs to the Topic Materials Science and Engineering in Vibrations and Seismicity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,540 Views
14 Pages

Quartz Crystal Microbalances for Space: Design and Testing of a 3D Printed Quasi-Kinematic Support

  • Diego Scaccabarozzi,
  • Bortolino Saggin,
  • Marianna Magni,
  • Marco Giovanni Corti,
  • Pietro Valnegri,
  • Ernesto Palomba,
  • Andrea Longobardo,
  • Fabrizio Dirri and
  • Emiliano Zampetti

Outgassing or thruster’s generated contaminants are critical for optical surfaces and optical payloads because scientific measurements and, in general, the performances can be degraded or jeopardized by uncontrolled contamination. This is a wel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Small Satellite Technology)

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