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Applications of Computational Optimal Control to Vehicle Dynamics

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Modern vehicle dynamic control systems are based on new types of actuators, such as active steering and active differentials, in order to improve the overall handling performance including stability, responsiveness, and agility. Numerical techniques of off-line optimization of vehicle dynamics control variables can conveniently be used to facilitate decisions on optimal actuator configurations and provide guidance for design of realistic, on-line controllers. This chapter overviews the previous authors’ results of assessment of various vehicle dynamics actuator configurations based on application of a back propagation through time (BPTT) conjugate gradient optimization algorithm. It is then focused on detailed optimization of active front and rear steering control variables for various maneuvers and design specifications, where a nonlinear programming-based optimization tool is used.

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  1. Automotive Control Group at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Joško Deur, Mirko Corić & Josip Kasać

  2. Department of Automotive Engineering, Cranfield University, Milton Keynes, UK

    Francis Assadian

  3. Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, USA

    Davor Hrovat

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  1. Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems, Johannes Kepler, University Linz, Linz, Austria

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  2. Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Ilya Kolmanovsky

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Maarten Steinbuch

  4. Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

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Deur, J., Corić, M., Kasać, J., Assadian, F., Hrovat, D. (2014). Applications of Computational Optimal Control to Vehicle Dynamics. In: Waschl, H., Kolmanovsky, I., Steinbuch, M., del Re, L. (eds) Optimization and Optimal Control in Automotive Systems. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 455. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05371-4_8

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