Citation

Ding X, Mikaric S, He Y. Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Pt. D J. Automobile Eng. 2013; 227(5): 643-655.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0954407012461223

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper presents the design for an active trailer-steering system of multi-trailer articulated heavy vehicles using driver-software-in-the-loop real-time simulations. A linear yaw-plane multi-trailer articulated heavy-vehicle model is generated to derive an optimal active trailer-steering controller. Then, the controller is reconstructed in LabVIEW and integrated with a vehicle model for a tractor- double-trailer combination developed in TruckSim. The driver-software-in-the-loop real-time simulations are conducted on a vehicle simulator. The driver-software-in-the-loop real-time simulations indicate that the active trailer-steering controller can effectively improve the low-speed manoeuvrability and high-speed stability of the multi-trailer articulated heavy vehicle when testing using a low-speed 360° roundabout path-following manoeuvre and a high-speed single-lane-change manoeuvre respectively. The investigation based on the driver-software-in-the-loop real-time simulations paves the way to future development of electronic control units for the active trailer-steering system using driver-hardware-in-the-loop real-time simulations.

Language: en