This paper is concerned with the braking performance and the handling behavior of the tractor-semitrailer truck under optimal braking. Optimal control theory is used in order to deal with the problem and a combination of the steepest descent method and the Davidon Fletcher Powell method is used to solve it numerically. Results for some chosen braking maneuvers are obtained for a nonlinear truck model which has 14 degrees of freedom. These results show that, for the chosen maneuvers an idealized anti-skid braking is close to being optimal in the sense defined in this paper. Implementation of an idealized anti-skid braking on the tractor-semitrailer truck, however, may be not desirable.


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    Title :

    Optimal Control of the Tractor-Semitrailer Truck


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Vehicle System Dynamics ; 7 , 4 ; 203-231


    Publication date :

    1978-12-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown



    Optimal Control of the tractor-semitrailer truck

    Zanten,A.T.van / Krauter,A.I. / Bosch et al. | Automotive engineering | 1978