Acquisition and utilization of the lateral guidance information is crucial for steering a vehicle. However, this task becomes difficult when the visual information loses its clarity. Driving a snowplow during whiteout condition is one such example. In order to improve the safety and efficiency of the snow removal operation, a supplemental steering guidance display was proposed and instrumented in a Caltrans snowplow. The guidance information was calculated based on the magnetic markers embedded under the roadway. Operations were successfully conducted on a 6.25 km freeway over Donner Summit on Interstate 80 in California during the 1998-1999 winter season. The key to this success was a clever transformation of the display problem into a control problem. This paper describes the problem formulation and the solution concept for this steering guidance system.


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    Title :

    A steering guidance system for snowplow - an interesting control problem


    Contributors:
    Tan, Han-Shue (author) / Bougler, B. (author) / Kretz, P. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1999


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 7 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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