The precise dynamic control of autonomous driving tracked vehicles is very difficult to achieve due to its complexity and high delay, however, it is also one indispensable key performance. In the meantime, according to the characteristics of the complex off-road environment, terrain, and slope are unknown and change violently, which leads to unknown and time-varying steering resistance coefficient and increasing the control difficulty. This paper extracts two key motion variables of vehicle speed and steering angular velocity, decomposes the tracked vehicle motion control problem, designs a control strategy based on model reference adaptive control (MRAC), and thus achieves the adaptive closed-loop control performance. This control strategy predicts the motor load through the vehicle dynamics reference model determined by parameters and adjusts the motor output torque through the adaptive control law so that the actual vehicle speed and angular velocity follow the output of the MRAC reference model’s vehicle speed and angular velocity in real-time. The performance of this control strategy is verified by real vehicle tests in the off-road environment. Compared with the traditional speed closed-loop control strategy, the tracking performance is improved by 10%, and the off-road average speed is improved by 10%.


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    Title :

    Motion Control of Tracked Vehicles Based on MRAC


    Contributors:
    Fan, Jingjing (author) / Liu, Yingzhe (author) / Liu, Yi (author) / Li, Zhipeng (author)

    Conference:

    20th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals ; 2020 ; Xi’an, China (Conference Cancelled)


    Published in:

    CICTP 2020 ; 609-619


    Publication date :

    2020-12-09




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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