High Stability Lateral Guided Method for Articulated Vehicle Based on Sensor Steering Mechanism

This paper proposes SSM (Sensor Steering Mechanism) for a lateral guided vehicle with an articulated body. Authors demonstrated the simple lateral guiding method SSM for the front wheel steer type, the reverse phase four-wheel steer type and the rear wheel steer type vehicle. SSM presents the stable lateral guiding performance for automated vehicle which follows a straight and curved path created by guideway. The other hand, SSM is not established for articulated vehicles such as wheel loaders and dump trucks used in the mine and construction site. This paper leads SSM for an articulated vehicle with arbitrary position of articulation joint and develops an experimental robotic vehicle with proposed SSM. Simulated and experimental data show the advantages of proposed SSM.

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