Title :
Wheel load transfer in high-speed unmanned vehicles
Author_Institution :
United States Mil. Acad., West Point, NY, USA
Abstract :
A low-cost unmanned vehicle design is presented as a tool to explore autonomous high-speed performance. The vehicle is based on a 1/10 scale radio control model four-wheel-drive truck. The transfer of vertical loads from wheel-to-wheel is proposed as a parameter to control drifting. A means of estimating wheel loading from suspension displacement is presented.
Keywords :
military vehicles; remotely operated vehicles; wheels; control drifting; high-speed unmanned vehicles; scale control model four-wheel-drive truck; suspension displacement; vertical loads transfer; wheel load transfer; wheel loading estimation; Humans; Manufacturing; Military computing; Mobile robots; Protection; Radio control; Remotely operated vehicles; Sonar navigation; Vehicle driving; Wheels;
Conference_Titel :
Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, 2009. TePRA 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Woburn, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4991-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4992-7
DOI :
10.1109/TEPRA.2009.5339629
