MODERN CONTROL THEORY APPLIED TO VEHICLE DYNAMICS. STATE-OF-ART REPORT

Abstract

This paper gives a state-of-art report of the controlled vehicle dynamical research that has been conducted at the Technical University of Budapest and the Computer and Au- tomation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The investigations into the application of the newest results of the modern control and identification theories are con- ducted on several fields: primary (wheel) suspension control, secondary vibration isolation (seat), steering systems, control of the hitch forces and torques at articulated vehicles, and stability enhancement control svstems. There are some other fields addressed here as well, which are related to the interface between the vehicle and the environment (IHVS) and the investigations into the on-board vehicle electronics.