Relaxation of control over stock shares: not until 2006

Volkswagen in China is confronted with a serious of tough problems: its OEM parts are being used by one of the subsidiaries of SAIC without permission; FAW announced suddenly a close cooperation plan with Toyota; VW's market share as a whole in China is declining; because Chinese partners insist on more local procurement, the production cost has all along been high; VW's two partners in China have split the VW brands and done whatever they     

Nonlinear H∞ control for semi-active suspension

This paper describes the development of a damping control system for semi-active suspension which is based on nonlinear H_∞ control theory instead of conventional linear control theory. A two degrees of freedom system is used as the structure for the vehicle suspension model. Since the structure is bilinear, it's not easy to design the controller. We designed the controller based on the Hamilton-Jacobi inequality by solving a linear Riccati equation. We were able to verify by simulation that nonlinear H_∞ control theory made it possible to control vehicle vibration optimally and smoothly.     

Fault-tolerant yaw moment control with steer — and brake-by-wire devices

This paper presents an fault-tolerant yaw moment control for a vehicle with steer-by-wire (SBW) and brake-by-wire (BBW) devices. SBWs and BBWs can give active front steering (AFS) and electronic stability control (ESC) functions, respectively. Due to motor-driven devices, actuator and sensor faults are inherent in SBW and BBW, and can cause a critical damage to a vehicle. Simple direct yaw moment control is adopted to design a vehicle stability controller. To cope with actuator failure, weighted pseudo-inverse based control allocation (WPCA) with variable weights is proposed in yaw moment distribution procedure. Simulations on vehicle simulation software, CarSim®, show the proposed method is effective for fail safety.     

Run-off-road and recovery – state estimation and vehicle control strategies

Despite many advances in vehicle safety technology, traffic fatalities remain a devastating burden on society. With over two-thirds of all fatal single-vehicle crashes occurring off the roadway, run-off-road (ROR) crashes have become the focus of much roadway safety research. Current countermeasures, including roadway infrastructure modifications and some on-board vehicle safety systems, remain limited in their approach as they do not directly address the critical factor of driver behaviour. It has been shown that ROR crashes are often the result of poor driver performance leading up to the crash. In this study, the performance of two control algorithms, sliding control and linear quadratic control, was investigated for use in an autonomous ROR vehicle recovery system. The two controllers were simulated amongst a variety of ROR conditions where typical driver performance was inadequate to safely operate the vehicle. The sliding controller recovered the fastest within the nominal conditions but exhibited large variability in performance amongst the more extreme ROR scenarios. Despite some small sacrifices in lateral error and yaw rate, the linear quadratic controller demonstrated a higher level of consistency and stability amongst the various conditions examined. Overall, the linear quadratic controller recovered the vehicle 25% faster than the sliding controller while using 70% less steering, which combined with its robust performance, indicates its high potential as an autonomous ROR countermeasure.     

悬崖勒马:日本三菱公司起死回生(一)

2007年10月,三菱公司宣布,连续第七个月在全球的产量增加,销售和利润进一步上升,意义重大,超过了2007/2008全部财政年度的预期.随着数年的剧变,三菱公司发出了明显的信号,最近三年结构重组计划进展良好;不过在全球化的现代汽车工业中是否可行尚属未知.三菱公司的第二个中期计划,由于要到2008年3月才宣布,是否能在未来持续发展呢?     

悬崖勒马:日本三菱公司起死回生(二)

2007年10月,三菱公司宣布,连续第七个月在全球的产量增加,销售和利润进一步上升,意义重大,超过了2007/2008全部财政年度的预期.随着数年的剧变,三菱公司发出了明显的信号,最近三年结构重组计划进展良好;不过在全球化的现代汽车工业中是否可行尚属未知.三菱公司的第二个中期计划,由于要到2008年3月才宣布,是否能在未来持续发展呢?     

悬崖勒马:日本三菱公司起死回生(二)

2007年10月,三菱公司宣布,连续第七个月在全球的产量增加,销售和利润进一步上升,意义重大,超过了2007/2008全部财政年度的预期.随着数年的剧变,三菱公司发出了明显的信号,最近三年结构重组计划进展良好;不过在全球化的现代汽车工业中是否可行尚属未知.三菱公司的第二个中期计划,由于要到2008年3月才宣布,是否能在未来持续发展呢? ……     

Regulations for the control of auto financial companiesSupervision & Administration Committee on China''''s Banking Industry (hereinafter referred to as SACCBI)

These Regulations are formulated for the purpose of fulfilling the need of auto finance service development and regulating the actions of non-banking financial institutions in conducting auto finance business, in accordance with relevant laws and administrative rules and regulations.