Jackknife Control on Tractor Semi-Trailer during Emergency Braking

Autor: Shu Wen Zhou, Guang Yao Zhao, Si Qi Zhang
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Advanced Materials Research. :1303-1306
ISSN: 1662-8985
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.299-300.1303
Popis: Emergency braking on a low coefficient of friction or split-mu road surface, the semi-trailer may push the tractor from behind until it spins round and faces backwards, and a jackknife accident occurs. In this paper, the tractor semi-trailer kinematics was analyzed and a 3-dof of tractor semi-trailer model was used to design a state observer to estimate the articulation angle. To avoid a jackknife, the four-channel ABS which can produce maximum braking force will be switch to three-channel ABS according the estimated articulation angle. The virtual prototyping simulation results show that the jackknife control system can improve the tractor semi-trailer lateral stability under emergency braking and shorten the stop distance dramatically on split-mu road surface at high speed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE