Advanced autonomous vehicle design for severe environments / / edited by Vladimir V. Vantsevich and Michael V. Blundell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460735903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : , : IOS Press : , : Published in cooperation with NATO Emerging Security Challenges Division, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-61499-576-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Collana: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series. Sub-Series D: Information and Communication Security, , 1879-8292 ; ; Volume 44
• Disciplina: 388.312
• Soggetti: Autonomous vehicles; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Title Page""; ""Preface""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Vehicle Dynamics and System Design - History and Future Directions""; ""Historic Aspects and Future Research Directions in Vehicle Dynamics and System Design""; ""Past, Present and Future of Control Theory Applied to Autonomous Agents""; ""Chapter 2. Severe Environmental Conditions and Situations""; ""Experimental and Modeling Terramechanics Studies""; ""Terrorist Threats, Agile Vehicle Trajectory Deviation and Critical Reposition in Interaction with Environment""; ""Chapter 3. Vehicle Agility Fundamentals and Applications in Severe Driving Conditions""""Agility in Vehicle Dynamics and Relaxation Time Constants""; ""Modeling of Agile Stochastic Terrain Friction/Resistance Properties in Correletion with Terrian Geometry""; ""Fundamentals of Agile Terrain Mobility Evaluation of Unmanned Ground Vehicles""; ""Chapter 4. Vehicle Mobility and Energy Efficiency""; ""Wheel - Vehicle - Step Obstacle Interaction""; ""Estimation of Soil Damage""; ""Vehicle Terrain Mobility Enhancement and Minimization of Energy Consumption""; ""A Method of a Wheel Power Distribution and Its Application to ; Vehicles""""Chapter 5. Inverse Vehicle Dynamics and Operational Fusion of Vehicle System Dynamics""; ""Inverse Dynamics Problems in Vehicle Applications""; ""Passive and Active Operational Fusion of Vehicle System Dynamics (Coupled and Interactive Dynamics)""; ""Chapter 6. Mathematical and Computational Techniques and Software Products""; ""Treatment of Uncertainties in Multibody Dynamic Systems Using a Generalized Polynomial Chaos Approach; Case Study on a Full Vehicle""; ""Application of the Generalized Polynomial Chaos to the LQR Control Problem with Uncertain Parameters in the Formulation""""Multibody Dynamics Techniques for Real-Time Parameter Estimation""; ""The Use of Multibody Systems in Vehicle Modelling Simulation""; ""Chapter 7.""; ""New Methods and Techniques in Online Control and Learning""; ""Introduction on Reinforcement Learning, and Game Theory""; ""Optimal Control""; ""Optimal Control with Saturations""; ""Event-Triggered Optimal Control""; ""H-Infinity Control and Zero Sum Games""; ""Multi-Player Non-Zero Sum Games""; ""Graphical Games""; ""Conclusion and Future Work""""Chapter 8.""; ""Mechatronics of Vehicle Control and Self-Powered Systems""; ""Introduction to Mechatronics""; ""Mechatronic Systems: Dynamic Models and Physical Component Topology""; ""Control Performance in Agile Vehicles and Cyber Physical Systems""; ""Self-Powered Dynamic Systems for Energy Efficiency""; ""Mechatronic Design""; ""Chapter 9. Tyre Modelling in Vehicle Dynamics""; ""An Introduction to Tire Modelling""; ""Tire Force and Moment Characteristics""; ""Tire Modelling""; ""Chapter 10. Vehicle Design and Analysis for Ride, Handling and Durability""; ""The Role of the Suspension System""