Hybrid MPC based Motion Cueing Algorithm for Driving Simulators

Driving simulators have been used in the automotive industry for many years now. They have been vastly employed for conducting tests in a safe, reproducible and controlled immersive virtual environment. The ability of the simulator to recreate the in-vehicle experience for the occupant is established through motion cueing algorithms. Such...

Regulations Aware Motion Planning for Autonomous Surface Vessels in Urban Canals

With a growing number of citizens and tourists, the scarce public space, roads, and public transport in Amsterdam are experiencing rising pressure. Instead of utilizing the conventional transportation routes, Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) could transport goods and people via the 165 canals present in Amsterdam. <br/>However, urban canals are...

MPC-based motion cueing algorithm for a 6 DOF driving simulator with actuator constraints

Driving simulators are widely used for understanding Human-Machine Interaction, driver behavior and driver training. The effectiveness of such simulators in this process depends largely on their ability to generate realistic motion cues. Though the conventional filter-based motion cueing strategies have provided reasonable results, these methods...

Safe and natural navigation in dynamic environments, learned from human behavior

Social Navigation is the task of robot motion planning in an environment shared with humans.This is an especially hard sub-problem of motion planning because the planner has to dealwith a dynamic, continuous and unpredictable environment. We present a local motionplanner, namely Neural Network Model Predictive Control, for autonomous ground...

Automated Docking of an Offshore Gangway: A Predictive Control Approach

Objects floating on or near the water surface (e.g. vessels, and floating wind-turbines) suffer from motions induced by waves of varying height, direction, and frequency. This not only causes unpleasantness for passengers and crew of ships but also it limits the accessibility to the offshore platforms. Bosch Rexroth with their partner Barge...

Guidance, Navigation and Control of Autonomous Vessels: An Implementation using a Control-Based Framework

This thesis report proposes a framework to implement Navigation, Guidance and Control (GNC) systems, that enable point-to-point autonomy for displacement vessels. A model-based control approach is chosen as the basis of the GNC systems. The resulting algorithms are implemented for verification in a 1:25 scale model of a Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD)...