Quasi steady-state aerodynamic model development for race vehicle simulations

Presented in this paper is a procedure to develop a high fidelity quasi steady-state aerodynamic model for use in race car vehicle dynamic simulations. Developed to fit quasi steady-state wind tunnel data, the aerodynamic model is regressed against three independent variables: front ground clearance, rear ride height, and yaw angle. An initial dual range model is presented and then further refined to reduce the model complexity while maintaining a high level of predictive accuracy. The model complexity reduction decreases the required amount of wind tunnel data thereby reducing wind tunnel testing time and cost. The quasi steady-state aerodynamic model for the pitch moment degree of freedom is systematically developed in this paper. This same procedure can be extended to the other five aerodynamic degrees of freedom to develop a complete six degree of freedom quasi steady-state aerodynamic model for any vehicle.     

Design and validation of a slender guideway for Maglev vehicle by simulation and experiment

Normally, Maglev (magnetic levitation) vehicles run on elevated guideways. The elevated guideway must satisfy various load conditions of the vehicle, and has to be designed to ensure ride quality, while ensuring that the levitation stability of the vehicle is not affected by the deflection of the guideway. However, because the elevated guideways of Maglev vehicles in South Korea and other countries fabricated so far have been based on over-conservative design criteria, the size of the structures has increased. Further, from the cost perspective, they are unfavourable when compared with other light rail transits such as monorail, rubber wheel, and steel wheel automatic guided transit. Therefore, a slender guideway that does have an adverse effect on the levitation stability of the vehicle is required through optimisation of design criteria. In this study, to predict the effect of various design parameters of the guideway on the dynamic behaviour of the vehicle, simulations were carried out using a dynamics model similar to the actual vehicle and guideway, and a limiting value of deflection ratio of the slender guideway to ensure levitation control is proposed. A guideway that meets the requirement as per the proposed limit for deflection ratio was designed and fabricated, and through a driving test of the vehicle, the validity of the slender guideway was verified. From the results, it was confirmed that although some increase in airgap and cabin acceleration was observed with the proposed slender guideway when compared with the conventional guideway, there was no notable adverse effect on the levitation stability and ride quality of the vehicle. Therefore, it can be inferred that the results of this study will become the basis for establishing design criteria for slender guideways of Maglev vehicles in future.     

A comprehensive study on the stability analysis of vehicle dynamics with pure/combined-slip tyre models

In this paper, a vehicle's lateral dynamic model is developed based on the pure and the combined-slip LuGre tyre models. Conventional vehicle's lateral dynamic methods derive handling models utilising linear tyres and pure-slip assumptions. The current article proposes a general lateral dynamic model, which takes the linear and nonlinear behaviours of the tyre into account using the pure and combined-slip assumptions separately. The developed methodology also incorporates various normal loads at each corner and provides a proper tyre–vehicle platform for control and estimation applications. Steady-state and transient LuGre models are also used in the model development and their responses are compared in different driving scenarios. Considering the fact that the vehicle dynamics is time-varying, the stability of the suggested time-varying model is investigated using an affine quadratic stability approach, and a novel approach to define the critical longitudinal speed is suggested and compared with that of conventional lateral stability methods. Simulations have been conducted and the results are used to validate the proposed method.     

Robust control and actuator dynamics compensation for railway vehicles

A robust controller is designed for active steering of a high speed train bogie with solid axle wheel sets to reduce track irregularity effects on the vehicle’s dynamics and improve stability and curving performance. A half-car railway vehicle model with seven degrees of freedom equipped with practical accelerometers and angular velocity sensors is considered for the H_∞ control design. The controller is robust against the wheel/rail contact parameter variations. Field measurement data are used as the track irregularities in simulations. The control force is applied to the vehicle model via ball-screw electromechanical actuators. To compensate the actuator dynamics, the time delay is identified online and is used in a second-order polynomial extrapolation carried out to predict and modify the control command to the actuator. The performance of the proposed controller and actuator dynamics compensation technique are examined on a one-car railway vehicle model with realistic structural parameters and nonlinear wheel and rail profiles. The results showed that for the case of nonlinear wheel and rail profiles significant improvements in the active control performance can be achieved using the proposed compensation technique.     

表面排水条件对饱水沥青路面动力响应的影响分析

首先建立动态荷载作用下,饱和状态沥青路面轴对称瞬态动力分析有限元模型,并给出有限元分析的荷载条件、边界条件和材料参数;而后分析表面排水和表面不排水两种条件下的竖向位移、竖向应力、水平应力、剪应力和孔隙水压力沿深度方向的分布和时程变化,以确定表面排水条件对饱和状态沥青路面动力响应的影响。结果表明,与表面排水条件相比,表面不排水状况对位移场影响不大,而对应力场影响较大;后者在轮胎边缘外侧产生了较大的竖向拉应力,同时产生了更大的正孔隙水压力,使得路面结构处于更加不利的受力状态。     

仿人形机器人运动的自适应控制

用Danevit-Hartenberg坐标变换法推导了仿人机器人的动力学与运动学方程,建立了仿人机器人的广义雅可比矩阵.设计了自适应控制器,以保证该仿人机器人系统的渐近稳定.给出了该机器人在做高难度舞蹈动作时各关节的运动轨迹以及仿真截图.结果验证了该方法的可行性和有效性.     

汽车非线性悬架的混沌研究

采用基于实测数据建立的非线性悬架模型,分析了汽车悬架中的非线性弹簧力和阻尼力,对非线性悬架系统的混沌运动进行了研究.在单频正弦路面、拟周期路面以及随机路面激励情况下,仿真计算得到了系统的响应.分析各激励下系统的相轨迹、庞加莱(Poincaré)截面、时间历程曲线、功率谱图及李亚谱诺夫(Lyapunov)指数图,结果表明非线性悬架系统中存在混沌现象.     

钢筋混凝土结构锈胀裂缝的计算机模拟

根据钢筋混凝土锈胀动力学原理,推导出锈蚀钢筋周围混凝土锈胀位移场的表达式。并用基于虚拟裂缝模型（ＦＭ）的非线性有限元方法,建立了钢筋混凝土结构的锈胀裂缝开裂过程的分析模型,利用编制的程序,对钢筋混凝土构件的锈裂过程进行了计算机模拟,结果表明,该模型为获得了锈胀开裂条件以及锈蚀量与锈胀裂缝宽度之间的定量关系提供了可能。     

Controlling Strange Attractor in Dynamics

A nonlinear system which exhibits a strange attractor is considered, with the goal of illustrating how to control the chaotic dynamical system and to obtain a desired attracting periodic orbit by the OGY control algorithm.