High Speed Control of Long Combination Heavy Commercial Vehicles within Safe Corridors

​Research Motivating Problem:

• Road transports to increase energy‐ and transport‐efficiency.
• Combinations longer than 18m/25m is not allowed today in EU/Sweden.
  

Envisioned product/solution, 2025:

• Semi‐Autonomous driver assistance functionalities for long vehicle combinations.
• Longitudinal and lateral vehicle dynamics. 0 to 90 km/h.

Research questions:

• How can the best “corridors” be represented, identified and chosen?
• How shall transitions be realised between autonomous driving and driver?

Deliverables:

• Developed functionality, verification and demonstration
• 1 VehDyn PhD graduated

• Peter Nilsson

  Guest researcher at Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Division of Vehicle Engineering and Autonomous Systems

  Guest researcher Volvo Group Trucks Technology Telephone: +46 31 3234752 E-mail: peter.q.nilsson@volvo.com
• Bengt J H Jacobson

  Full Professor in Vehicle Dynamics and leader of Vehicle Dynamics group at Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Division of Vehicle Engineering and Autonomous Systems

  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 at Mechanics and Maritime Sciences
• Mattias Wahde

  Full Professor at Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Division of Vehicle Engineering and Autonomous Systems
• Paolo Falcone

  Associate Professor, Electrical engineering

  Paolo Falcone is Associate Professor in the Mechatronics research group. His research focuses on constrained optimal control and verification methods, applied to autonomous and semi-autonomous mobile...