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Hashish, Ahmed (author)This thesis covers the implementation of Event-Triggering Control (ETC) on Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC). CACC has the potential to increase road capacity, by having safe vehicle following with small intervehicle distance (less than 1 second), to increase traffic flow by eliminating shockwave effects, such that string-stable...master thesis 2018
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Westerhof, Bernhard (author)Research in the motorcycle industry is lagging behind research in the automotive industry. Especially with respect to safety, more research is needed, since motorcycles are overrepresented in the number of road casualties and injuries. Important tools in vehicle research are vehicle simulators. The use of motorcycle simulators enables...master thesis 2018
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Bekkers, Rik (author)Lateral acceleration is a key aspect of the vehicle response perceived by the driver. Assistance systems such as Active Rear Steering (ARS) or Torque Vectoring (TV) are developed to modify the lateral acceleration response such that the vehicle has an improved stability and an extended linear handling region. With this extended linear handling...master thesis 2018
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den Hartog, Daniel (author)Self-driving vehicles are the future of automotive engineering. Systems that take over control from the driver are developed to be able to interact with the conditions of the road and other obstacles. To develop these systems, developers use vehicle models to simulate the behaviour of the moving vehicle. The systems developed using these models...master thesis 2018
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Drop, F.M. (author), Pool, D.M. (author), van Paassen, M.M. (author), Mulder, Max (author), Bulthoff, Heinrich H. (author)The human controller (HC) in manual control of a dynamical system often follows a visible and predictable reference path (target). The HC can adopt a control strategy combining closed-loop feedback and an open-loop feedforward response. The effects of the target signal waveform shape and the system dynamics on the human feedforward dynamics...journal article 2018
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Jagga, Dhruv (author)Extensive advancements in the field of mobility and safety in transportation in last few decades<br/>have acted as a catalyst for the expansion of automobile industry. The research for the evolution<br/>of new technologies, vehicle safety regulations and specifications and the market requirements<br/>has given this progress a greater push. The...master thesis 2017
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Schwarting, Wilko (author), Alonso Mora, J. (author), Paull, Liam (author), Karaman, Sertac (author), Rus, Daniela (author)High-end vehicles are already equipped with safety systems, such as assistive braking and automatic lane following, enhancing vehicle safety. Yet, these current solutions can only help in low-complexity driving situations. In this paper, we introduce a parallel autonomy, or shared control, framework that computes safe trajectories for an...journal article 2017
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Kamel, Mina (author), Alonso Mora, J. (author), Siegwart, Roland (author), Nieto, Juan (author)When several Multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) share the same airspace, reliable and robust collision avoidance is required. In this paper we address the problem of multi-MAV reactive collision avoidance. We employ a model-based controller to simultaneously track a reference trajectory and avoid collisions. Moreover, to achieve a higher...conference paper 2017
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Pool, E.A.I. (author), Kooij, J.F.P. (author), Gavrila, D. (author)We learn motion models for cyclist path prediction on real-world tracks obtained from a moving vehicle, and propose to exploit the local road topology to obtain better predictive distributions. The tracks are extracted from the Tsinghua-Daimler Cyclist Benchmark for cyclist detection, and corrected for vehicle egomotion. Tracks are then...conference paper 2017
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Matamoros Cid, I. (author), van Paassen, M.M. (author), Pool, D.M. (author)Maximum unnoticeable added dynamics (MUAD) envelopes have been largely used to assess the adequacy of low-order equivalent systems (LOES) in handling qualities assessment and simulator validation. However, research has shown that more thorough verification of the adequacy of this method is required. This paper studies the influence of the...conference paper 2017
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Kunnappillil Madhusudhanan, A. (author)In assessing and controlling vehicle dynamics, tyre forces are the most important variables as they are the only point of interaction with the road. Estimating tyre forces is difficult because of their nonlinear characteristics. Therefore, most of the lateral vehicle dynamics controllers and estimators in the literature use a tyre model that...doctoral thesis 2016
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Burgelman, N. (author)One of the major costs incurred by railway companies is the maintenance of turnouts.This situation occurs because the large dynamic forces between the wheels of a train and the rails of a turnout cause excessive wear, rolling contact fatigue and rapid degradation of other components. A thorough understanding of the dynamic interaction between a...doctoral thesis 2016
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Kaustubh, M. (author), Willemsen, DMC (author), Mazo, M. (author)Proponents of autonomous driving pursue driverless technologies, whereas others foresee a gradual transition where there will be automated driving systems that share the control of the vehicle with the driver. With such advances it becomes pertinent that the developed automated systems need to be safe. One crucial aspect of safety is to prove...conference paper 2016
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Fokker, A.D. (author)Recent trends in the automobile industry focus towards enhancing the operating efficiency of the road vehicle. One can achieve this by a combination of increasing the powertrain efficiency, reducing the weight and increasing the aerodynamic performance. The scope of this study is on the latter, i. e. enhancing the aerodynamic performance. Most...master thesis 2015
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Struijk, M. (author)Four Wheel Drive (4WD) vehicles are almost as old as the automobile itself, however for more than half a century the main use case of a 4WD system was to improve traction on off-road terrains. The advancement in technology over the recent decades resulted in more advanced and light weight solutions shifting the focus more towards sports cars and...master thesis 2015
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Idriz, A.F. (author)According to the statistics, driver error is the main reason for the road accidents: this has motivated an intensive research on intelligent vehicles equipped with automated driving technology, active safety and driver-assistance systems so as to enhance the safety of drivers, facilitate vehicle controllability and stability, and improve driving...master thesis 2015
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Van Ginkel, J.N. (author)Electronic stability control (ESC) has been shown to reduce the accident rate in a number of situations. Therefore, it is important to keep improving ESC and other control systems. One way to do this is by improving the available information on the state of the vehicle and its environment. The tire-road friction coefficient µ is particularly...master thesis 2014
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De Mooij, G.L.T. (author)The RooT is an electric scooter designed to create a new user experience that enhances the advantages of electric mobility: it is quiet, clean and intuitive. It moves with you like a “flying carpet”. In the previous projects, the RooT concept has already been developed until a first prototype. This first prototype was still a very primitive...master thesis 2012
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Gerard, M.P. (author)Mobility and traffic safety is a major concern in the society today. Many accidents take place because the vehicle is not following the trajectory that the driver desires. To avoid such accidents, an increasing number of active safety systems are introduced in modern vehicles. Still, most of the time, those systems are designed independently,...doctoral thesis 2011