IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVE STEERING ON A MULTIPLE TRAILER LONG COMBINATION VEHICLE

In order to introduce longer heavy vehicles with multiple articulation joints between vehicle units into the UK and other European countries, rear steering of the vehicle units is required to allow for sufficient manoeuvrability. This paper details the development and testing of trailer steering controllers for forward and reverse travel of a B-double vehicle. Practical implementation of the controllers on the Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium's experimental Long Combination Vehicle (LCV) is outlined, and test results of the system's low speed forward and reversing performance are shown. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E219320.

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