Memorias de investigación
Research Publications in journals:
Control Design for an Articulated Truck With Autonomous Driving in an Electrified Highway
Year:2018

Research Areas
  • Mechanical engineering,
  • Means of transport,
  • Vehicle

Information
Abstract
The basis of an electrified highway or eHighway is an intelligent current collector combined with a hybrid drive system, where the eHighway trucks collect power from the overhead cables. The first prototype for these vehicles has been developed by Siemens, but these vehicles need drivers. This paper presents a conceptual model that is an evolution of this approach, proposing a fully electrical vehicle with autonomous driving. This idea has been analyzed through simulations by using a model composed by an articulated truck and its electrical powertrain system, including a control system as well, based the on the model predictive control (MPC), widely used in autonomous vehicles. The vehicle model consists of a 2D model with 10 degrees of freedom, corresponding to the longitudinal and lateral displacements of the tractor, the tractor yaw angle, the semi-trailer yaw angle, and the rotations of the six equivalent wheels. Besides, an electric powertrain system, batteries, and a regenerative brake have been integrated into the model. Several simulation cases have been developed corresponding to an adaptive cruise control, a trajectory tracking, and an overtaking maneuver. The aim of these simulations is also to obtain the minimum size of the battery and its autonomy for an overtaking maneuver, since it is necessary to disconnect the truck from the overhead contact line during this maneuver. The simulations show the viability of this conceptual proposal, obtaining results similar to those expected.
International
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JCR
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Title
IEEE Xplore
ISBN
2169-3536
Impact factor JCR
3,557
Impact info
Eigenfactor 0.0186 Article Influence Score 1.098
Volume
6
10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2875904
Journal number
From page
60171
To page
60186
Month
NOVIEMBRE
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Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Departamento: Ingeniería Mecánica