Optimal Control of Autonomous Vehicles

A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Vehicle Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2024 | Viewed by 586

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The last few years witnessed tremendous progress in all areas of autonomous vehicle technology. However, even with unprecedented growth in computing power and algorithm, improvements are still sought to advance the field of control with emphasis in optimizing various aspects of vehicle performance, including drivability, safety critical function, energy efficiency, and environmental and societal impacts. This Special Issue aims to bring together researchers in industry and academics to present recent technological advancements or to provide comprehensive reviews or forward-looking visions and insights in the field of optimal control. Proposed topics include, but are not limited to

  • Autonomous vehicle optimal control;
  • Vehicle dynamics modeling and control;
  • Chassis control;
  • Vehicle safety control;
  • Autonomous vehicle path planning;
  • Energy-efficient connected and automated vehicles.

Dr. Jerry C. Ku
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • autonomous vehicles
  • optimal control
  • motion control
  • chassis control systems
  • vehicle dynamics control
  • safety control
  • path planning

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Article
Design of Active Suspension Controller for Ride Comfort Enhancement and Motion Sickness Mitigation
by Yonghwan Jeong and Seongjin Yim
Machines 2024, 12(4), 254; https://doi.org/10.3390/machines12040254 - 11 Apr 2024
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This paper presents a method for designing an active suspension controller for ride comfort enhancement and motion sickness mitigation. For this, it is necessary to design an active suspension controller, which aims to reduce the vertical acceleration and pitch rate of a sprung [...] Read more.
This paper presents a method for designing an active suspension controller for ride comfort enhancement and motion sickness mitigation. For this, it is necessary to design an active suspension controller, which aims to reduce the vertical acceleration and pitch rate of a sprung mass in a vehicle. A half-car vehicle model was selected. For the controller design, a static output feedback (SOF) control was selected instead of a full-state feedback control because it is hard to measure all state variables in real vehicles. With the available signals, three types of SOF controller were proposed. To determine the gains of the SOF controllers, a linear quadratic optimal control methodology and a simulation-based optimization method were adopted. To validate the proposed method, a simulation was carried out using vehicle simulation software. The simulation results show that the proposed method is quite effective for ride comfort enhancement and motion sickness mitigation. Full article
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