Title: Minimisation of power loss of a fully-driven wheeled transport vehicle

Authors: S.B. Shukhman, V.I. Solovyev

Addresses: NAMI-Service, Avtomotornaya ul., 4a, Moscow 125438, Russia. ' NAMI-Service, Avtomotornaya ul., 4a, Moscow 125438, Russia

Abstract: In recent years, systems to control vehicle dynamics took a wide expansion. They make it possible to improve essentially the main operational characteristics of autonomous vehicle. Wheel drive systems take the important place among such systems. These systems allow to control the wheel drive torques and thus to control vehicle dynamics. In this paper, the law of vehicle optimal wheel torque distribution is considered. When doing so, the minimum of capacity losses is obtained. The criterion of minimising the capacity losses is offered as well. A technique, described in the paper, makes it possible to apply above-mentioned law and criterion to all-wheel drive vehicle with any number of wheels. The experimental and calculated characteristics of parameters, which describe the rolling of elastic wheel and all-wheel drive vehicle movement, are supplemented.

Keywords: all-wheel drive vehicle; torque distribution; power loss minimisation; vehicle dynamics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJVAS.2003.004375

International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems, 2003 Vol.1 No.3/4, pp.316 - 323

Published online: 10 May 2004 *

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