Hardware-in-the-loop simulation of automatic steering control for double lane change and sine steer manoeuvres

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Hishamuddin Jamaluddin ◽  
Em Poh Ping ◽  
Khisbullah Hudha
Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (22) ◽  
pp. 7691
Author(s):  
Zheng Wang ◽  
Satoshi Suga ◽  
Edric John Cruz Nacpil ◽  
Bo Yang ◽  
Kimihiko Nakano

Driver distraction is a well-known cause for traffic collisions worldwide. Studies have indicated that shared steering control, which actively provides haptic guidance torque on the steering wheel, effectively improves the performance of distracted drivers. Recently, adaptive shared steering control based on the forearm muscle activity of the driver has been developed, although its effect on distracted driver behavior remains unclear. To this end, a high-fidelity driving simulator experiment was conducted involving 18 participants performing double lane change tasks. The experimental conditions comprised two driver states: attentive and distracted. Under each condition, evaluations were performed on three types of haptic guidance: none (manual), fixed authority, and adaptive authority based on feedback from the forearm surface electromyography of the driver. Evaluation results indicated that, for both attentive and distracted drivers, haptic guidance with adaptive authority yielded lower driver workload and reduced lane departure risk than manual driving and fixed authority. Moreover, there was a tendency for distracted drivers to reduce grip strength on the steering wheel to follow the haptic guidance with fixed authority, resulting in a relatively shorter double lane change duration.


Actuators ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Hongbo Wang ◽  
Shihan Xu ◽  
Longze Deng

Traffic accidents are often caused by improper lane changes. Although the safety of lane-changing has attracted extensive attention in the vehicle and traffic fields, there are few studies considering the lateral comfort of vehicle users in lane-changing decision-making. Lane-changing decision-making by single-step dynamic game with incomplete information and path planning based on Bézier curve are proposed in this paper to coordinate vehicle lane-changing performance from safety payoff, velocity payoff, and comfort payoff. First, the lane-changing safety distance which is improved by collecting lane-changing data through simulated driving, and lane-changing time obtained by Bézier curve path planning are introduced into the game payoff, so that the selection of the lane-changing start time considers the vehicle safety, power performance and passenger comfort of the lane-changing process. Second, the lane-changing path without collision to the forward vehicle is obtained through the constrained Bézier curve, and the Bézier curve is further constrained to obtain a smoother lane-changing path. The path tracking sliding mode controller of front wheel angle compensation by radical basis function neural network is designed. Finally, the model in the loop simulation and the hardware in the loop experiment are carried out to verify the advantages of the proposed method. The results of three lane-changing conditions designed in the hardware in the loop experiment show that the vehicle safety, power performance, and passenger comfort of the vehicle controlled by the proposed method are better than that of human drivers in discretionary lane change and mandatory lane change scenarios.


Author(s):  
Duane T. McRuer ◽  
R. Wade Allen ◽  
David H. Weir ◽  
Richard H. Klein

The dynamic control properties of drivers and driver/vehicle systems in steering operations have been widely investigated. This paper presents a short review of the combined compensatory, pursuit, and precognitive features needed to describe the total properties of the driver as a controller. Specific combinations of these features are associated with particular driving maneuvers. Some recent results are presented to confirm previous hypotheses and more completely quantify the models. The driver-organized system structure for regulation control is reviewed with emphasis on the loops closed and adjustments made by the driver in compensating for vehicle dynamic changes. Pursuit structures are given which describe steering control with preview and as one explanation for lane change maneuvers. Precognitive behavior is then presented as the most skilled mode utilized in rapid lane changes and other well-practiced maneuvers including obstacle avoidance. For all three categories of control, full-scale or simulator data are presented as indications of model verification.


2021 ◽  
Vol 143 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Icaro Bezerra Viana ◽  
Husain Kanchwala ◽  
Kenan Ahiska ◽  
Nabil Aouf

Abstract This work considers the cooperative trajectory-planning problem along a double lane change scenario for autonomous driving. In this paper, we develop two frameworks to solve this problem based on distributed model predictive control (MPC). The first approach solves a single nonlinear MPC problem. The general idea is to introduce a collision cost function in the optimization problem at the planning task to achieve a smooth and bounded collision function, and thus to prevent the need to implement tight hard constraints. The second method uses a hierarchical scheme with two main units: a trajectory-planning layer based on mixed-integer quadratic program (MIQP) computes an on-line collision-free trajectory using simplified motion dynamics, and a tracking controller unit to follow the trajectory from the higher level using the nonlinear vehicle model. Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) sharing their planned trajectories lay the foundation of the cooperative behavior. In the tests and evaluation of the proposed methodologies, matlab-carsim cosimulation is utilized. carsim provides the high-fidelity model for the multibody vehicle dynamics. matlab-carsim conjoint simulation experiments compare both approaches for a cooperative double lane change maneuver of two vehicles moving along a one-way three-lane road with obstacles.


1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (02) ◽  
pp. 205-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Taggart

An unusual combination of circumstances occurring during an Atlantic crossing of a highspeed containership created a situation where the rudder, acting in response to automatic steering control demands, caused excessive ship rolling. Further investigation revealed the existence of an unstable condition due to a combination of asymmetrical hydrodynamic and mechanical characteristics and the interrelationship of ship motion and control actuation. Similar response has been noted on other high-speed vessels and is a cause for major concern in future containership operations. The elements involved in creating these conditions have been examined in detail and a plausible explanation has been evolved as to how they can combine to produce the observed results. With an understanding of the causes of this anomalous behavior it is possible to devise means for preventing its occurrence in future designs.


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