Active Steering Force Feedback for Commercial Heavy Vehicles

​Research Motivating Problem:
To meet the traffic safety goals for 2020 with safe commercial heavy vehicles, future active steering systems introduced in such vehicles must provide an intuitive and informative steering force feedback to the driver about the vehicle combination’s stability envelope, blended with safe driving in traffic by guidance in lane, obstacle avoidance, and during automated emergency braking.

Envisioned product/solution:

• Novel functionality
  

Research questions:
Hypothesis: informative but not limiting constraints are preferred for steering force feedback for commercial heavy vehicles.

Deliverables:

• Verification and demonstration of the Novel functionality
• Competence captured in publications, inventions/patents and theses and in one person
• 1 VehDyn PhD graduated

• Bengt J H Jacobson

  Full Professor in Vehicle Dynamics and leader of Vehicle Dynamics group

  Bengt Jacobson graduated with PhD (1993) in machine elements at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, studying the dynamics of gear shifting in power-shifting transmissions. He continued...
• Leo Laine

  Adjunct professor
• Kristoffer K D Tagesson

  Industrial graduate student

  Kristoffer Tagesson has been a Phd student since 2012. He is employed at Volvo Group Trucks Technology, VGTT. His research interests are related to active steering functions on heavy vehicles and how...