Application of vehicle lateral control - automated snowblower

Author

Tan, Han-Shue ; Bu, Fanping ; Nelson, David

Author_Institution

California PATH, California Uni., Richmond, CA

fYear

2006

fDate

14-16 June 2006

Abstract

This paper describes the development process and the field test results of an automated snowblower, focusing on one of the more difficult snow removal operations: blowing snow off the freeway along side a guardrail without touching the guardrail. The development process includes transforming this automated operation into a control problem, modeling snowblower, design control algorithms, and instrument a 20-ton snowblower with sensors and an actuator. The initial field tests were successfully conducted with embedded magnetic markers along guardrails installed on the shoulders of Interstate-80 in the Sierra Mountain region close to Donner Summit in California, USA, 2005

Keywords

control system synthesis; position control; road vehicles; actuator; automated snowblower; control design; embedded magnetic markers; highway maintenance; lane guidance; linear matrix inequality optimization; sensors; snow removal operations; snowblower modeling; vehicle lateral control; Automatic control; Automatic testing; Global Positioning System; Machine vision; Magnetic heads; Navigation; Prototypes; Road transportation; Snow; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 2006

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0209-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0209-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.2006.1656612

Filename

1656612