Off-road Vehicle Dynamics

Off-road Vehicle Dynamics
Author: Hamid Taghavifar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 331942520X

This book deals with the analysis of off-road vehicle dynamics from kinetics and kinematics perspectives and the performance of vehicle traversing over rough and irregular terrain. The authors consider the wheel performance, soil-tire interactions and their interface, tractive performance of the vehicle, ride comfort, stability over maneuvering, transient and steady state conditions of the vehicle traversing, modeling the aforementioned aspects and optimization from energetic and vehicle mobility perspectives. This book brings novel figures for the transient dynamics and original wheel terrain dynamics at on-the-go condition.

The Future of Mobility

The Future of Mobility
Author: Liisa Ecola
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2015-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0833090356

Researchers developed two scenarios to envision the future of mobility in China in 2030. Economic growth, the presence of constraints on vehicle ownership and driving, and environmental conditions differentiate the scenarios. By making potential long-term mobility futures more vivid, the team sought to help decisionmakers at different levels of government and in the private sector better anticipate and prepare for change.

Autonomous Vehicles and Future Mobility

Autonomous Vehicles and Future Mobility
Author: Pierluigi Coppola
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0128176962

Autonomous Vehicles and Future Mobility presents novel methods for examining the long-term effects on individuals, society, and on the environment for a wide range of forthcoming transport scenarios, such as self-driving vehicles, workplace mobility plans, demand responsive transport analysis, mobility as a service, multi-source transport data provision, and door-to-door mobility. With the development and realization of new mobility options comes change in long-term travel behavior and transport policy. This book addresses these impacts, considering such key areas as the attitude of users towards new services, the consequences of introducing new mobility forms, the impacts of changing work related trips, and more. By examining and contextualizing innovative transport solutions in this rapidly evolving field, the book provides insights into the current implementation of these potentially sustainable solutions. It will serve as a resource of general guidelines and best practices for researchers, professionals and policymakers.

Armor

Armor
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 818
Release: 1960
Genre: Armored vehicles, Military
ISBN:

Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles

Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles
Author: Francisco Rovira Más
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2010-11-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1849964688

Rapid developments in electronics over the past two decades have induced a move from purely mechanical vehicles to mechatronics design. Recent advances in computing, sensors, and information technology are pushing mobile equipment design to incorporate higher levels of automation under the novel concept of intelligent vehicles. Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles introduces this concept, and provides an overview of recent applications and future approaches within this field. Several case studies present real examples of vehicles designed to navigate in off-road environments typically encountered by agriculture, forestry, and construction machines. The examples analyzed describe and illustrate key features for agricultural robotics, such as automatic steering, safeguarding, mapping, and precision agriculture applications. The eight chapters include numerous figures, each designed to improve the reader’s comprehension of subjects such as: • automatic steering systems; • navigation systems; • vehicle architecture; • image processing and vision; and • three-dimensional perception and localization. Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles will be of great interest to professional engineers and researchers in vehicle automation, robotics, and the application of artificial intelligence to mobile equipment; as well as to graduate students of mechanical, electrical, and agricultural engineering.

Terramechanics and Off-road Vehicles

Terramechanics and Off-road Vehicles
Author: Jo Yung Wong
Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier (distributor)
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1989
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Hardbound. The computer-aided methods presented in this book represent recent advances in the methodology for predicting and evaluating off-road vehicle performance. The mathematical models established for vehicle-terrain systems will enable the engineering practitioner to evaluate, on a rational basis, a wide range of options and to select an appropriate vehicle configuration for a given mission and environment. The models take into account all major design and operational parameters, as well as pertinent terrain characteristics.Applications of the computer-aided engineering methods to the parametric analysis of off-road vehicle design are demonstrated through examples.

Comments on Mobility Research

Comments on Mobility Research
Author: Sterling J. Knight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1964
Genre: All terrain vehicles
ISBN:

The scientific knowledge necessary for engineers to design mobility characteristics into a vehicle does not exist. In their attempts to fill this need, mobility engineers have failed to apply basic scientific methods and principles in a consistent manner. Some of the shortcomings evident in mobility research methods are pointed out. New knowledge obtained from mobility-oriented studies not in progress at the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station is presented to illustrate the importance of basic scientific studies.