汽车轮速传感器仿真方法

轮速传感器测量汽车轮速信号,用于制动、发动机及变速箱等众多系统控制,是汽车最关键的部件之一。新车型开发阶段,为了对汽车制动防抱死系统(ABS)及早有效的开发验证,需要对轮速传感器进行仿真模拟。文章针对最常用的主动式轮速传感器进行测试与分析,通过设计信号调理电路,成功搭建了ABS硬件在环仿真平台,既简化了汽车开发阶段的验证与测试,又节省了开发成本。     

On the sway stability improvement of car–caravan systems by articulated connections

The present analysis is addressed to some promising connection arrangements between the towing vehicles and the towed trailers, where the two units are linked by four-bar isosceles trapeziums in place of the conventional pintle hitch. Two types of instability, of the divergent type or the oscillating type, may be analysed by the Routh–Hurwitz criterion or by the direct analysis of the characteristic equation. The constant term of this equation vanishes at the divergent instability threshold (zero of a real root), whereas the equation splits into two lower degree algebraic ‘sub-equations’ when the oscillating instability arises (pair of pure imaginary roots). A large field of geometrical configurations of the four-bar linkage may be quickly tested by numerical search procedures, including those where the sidebars of the linkage converge towards the inside of the drawing car and shift the relative centre of rotation forward, and those converging backward towards the trailer. Maps of the critical velocity as a function of the geometrical or physical parameters may be easily traced. They clearly show the favourable influence of the forward four-bar connection in general and the benefits achievable comparing with the conventional coupling. Actually, it is conceivable to increase the critical speed by optimising the four-bar design depending on the weight distribution on the axles and on the other geometrical and physical properties. Moreover, this type of connection may produce significant corrections to the under-steering or over-steering conduct of the articulated vehicle. The off-tracking and the manoeuvrability along curved paths are also studied, showing the benefits or the drawbacks of the four-bar linkage for the various configurations.     

Measurement and mathematical model of a driver's intermittent compensatory steering control

The compensatory (feedback) component of a human driver's steering control is examined. In particular, the effect of the cognitive process is studied. Model predictive control theory is used to implement models of intermittency in cognitive processing. Experiments using a fixed-base driving simulator with periodic occlusion of the visual display are used to reveal the nature of the driver's steering behaviour. An intermittent serial-ballistic control strategy is found to match the measured behaviour better than intermittent zero-order hold or continuous control. The findings may enable some insight to driver-vehicle interaction and vehicle handling qualities.     

Design and validation of a robust active trailer steering system for multi-trailer articulated heavy vehicles

ABSTRACT

Multi-trailer articulated heavy vehicles (MTAHVs) are increasingly used around the world due to their economic and environmental benefits. However, MTAHVs exhibit poor maneuverability and low lateral stability, which may lead to fatal traffic accidents. Given the safety risks, it is necessary to solve the steering and stability problems of MTAHVs before they are safely mass deployed on our roads. To this end, active trailer steering (ATS) based on the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) technique has been explored. The LQR-based ATS demonstrates improved maneuverability and enhanced lateral stability. In the ATS design, the vehicle and operating parameters are assumed constant. Thus, it is natural to question the robustness of the ATS in presence of vehicle and operating parameter uncertainties. To address the problem, this paper proposes a robust ATS system. The robust ATS controller is designed using a linear matrix inequality (LMI) based LQR method. In the design, both vehicle and steering actuator parameter uncertainties are considered; to enhance the robustness of the ATS, the weighting matrices of the proposed controller are optimized. The robust controller is applied to an A-Train Double, one type of MTAHV. The effectiveness of the robust ATS is demonstrated using numerical and hardware-in-the-loop real-time simulations.     

Stability control of 4WS vehicles using robust IMC techniques

A robust nonparametric approach to vehicle stability control by means of a four-wheel steer by wire system is introduced. Both yaw rate and sideslip angle feedbacks are used in order to effectively take into account safety as well as handling performances. Reference courses for yaw rate and sideslip angle are computed on the basis of the vehicle speed and the handwheel angle imposed by the driver. An output multiplicative model set is used to describe the uncertainty arising from a wide range of vehicle operating situations. The effects of saturation of the control variables (i.e. front and rear steering angles) are taken into account by adopting enhanced internal model control methodologies in the design of the feedback controller. Actuator dynamics are considered in the controller design. Improvements on understeer characteristics, stability in demanding conditions such as turning on low friction surfaces, damping properties in impulsive manoeuvres, and improved handling in closed loop (i.e. with driver feedback) manoeuvres are shown through extensive simulation results performed on an accurate 14 degrees of freedom nonlinear model, which proved to give good modelling results as compared with collected experimental data.     

汽车乘员约束系统快速求解与评价程序开发应用

针对汽车乘员约束系统参数匹配与优化设计仿真分析过程中需要多次手动修改计算模型源文件和处理计算结果文件等影响分析效率的问题,应用DELPHI程序设计平台和FORTRAN语句开发了针对MADYMO软件的自动循环求解程序和基于C-NCAP正面碰撞试验规程的计算结果快速评价程序模块。通过使用该两款程序进行某A级轿车乘员约束系统参数的优化设计,证明了两个程序模块的有效性和实用性。     

电动汽车真空助力制动系统的匹配计算与研究

以某微型汽车为例,建立了其真空助力制动系统的数学模型,对燃油汽车改装为电动汽车后的制动系统真空助力匹配进行了计算分析,从而为电动汽车真空助力系统中真空罐、真空助力器、真空泵的选型和匹配提供了理论依据.通过试验验证可知,本文的真空罐及真空泵阀值选择合理,电动真空泵工作时间为4～6 s.     

车内噪声品质偏好性主客观评价及相关性分析

以5种轿车典型运行工况下后排乘员耳旁噪声样本为评价对象,利用自适应分组成对比较法对车内噪声品质进行了偏好性主观评价试验。计算了各样本的主要心理声学参数,通过相关分析和线性多元回归分析,建立了以响度和尖锐度描述车内噪声品质偏好性结果的数学模型。通过各组间的关联样本将各组评价结果进行反演构建,得到的总体样本评价结果与传统成对比较法评价结果一致性好,且节省了50%的评价时间。     

大尺度水下综合试验模型拖曳运动特性研究

大尺度水下综合试验模型采用拖缆实现加、减速过程,为了保证其运行稳定性和安全性,基于简化的刚体-弹性体振动模型,分析水下拖曳航行体系统的特性,给出合适的拖缆预紧力;并分析试验模型运动特性,给出保证试验过程中的运动稳定性和安全性的操舵限制条件。     

基于MSWF的初始投影向量估计方法研究

分析了初始期望信号存在误码差时,信号经两级维纳滤波得到的估计值,给出了估计初始投影向量的方法。该方法可以不利用接收信号的先验信息,经过两级维纳滤波后构造初始投影向量,从而进行信号子空间的估计,降低了初始期望信号存在误差时对多级维纳滤波的影响,提高了子空间估计的精度。