Design Approach for the Vehicle's Steering Linkage Fitted on Rigid Axle

Abstract

The steering system of a vehicle consists of two subsystems: the steering linkage, which correlates the steering angles of all the steerable road-wheels, and the actuation subsystem, which connects the driver's steering-wheel with one mobile element of the steering linkage. In the case of the vehicles with rigid steering axles, the most used steering linkage is a simple mechanism, composed of four bars (one being the base) connected with four joints. However, the design of the steering linkage isn't an easy task, mainly because the wanted correlation function is difficult to specify and because the packaging restrictions are very important. The present paper shows a possible approach to define the optimization function and the dimensions of the correlation steering mechanism.

Mobile Robot Path Tracking Using Slip Estimation for Kinematics Information

“…In order to reduce the disadvantages of the two types of sensor, the sensor fusion is used and in this case it is called inertial navigation system (INS). Some works are in literature as Preda, et al [4], introduced the methodologies to use common GPS receiver, it had potential and convenience to install in test vehicle with limitation only the line of slight from navigation satellites. The vehicle kinematics was estimated from GPS trajectory It is proved to be sufficient for vehicle kinematic measurements especially real-road environments.…”