Optimal control and stability of four-wheeled vehicles

Thesis

Two vehicular optimal control problems are visited. The first relates to the minimum lap time problem, which is of interest in racing and the second the minimum fuel problem, which is of great importance in commercial road vehicles. Historically, minimum lap time problems were considered impractical due to their slow solution times compared with the quasi-steady static (QSS) simulations. However, with increasing computational power and advancement of numerical algorithms, such problems hav...

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Authors: Masouleh, M

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Fuel minimisation; Stability; Flywheels; Suspension; Optimal Control; Sum of Squares; Pseudo-spectral; Parameter Optimisaiton; Vehicle dynamics; 3D routing; Minimum lap time; Hybrid Vehicles; Lyapunov stability; Formula One
• Subjects: Control Engineering; Stablity; Optimal Control; Motor vehicles--Dynamics