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Area of Science:

  • Control Engineering
  • Automotive Systems
  • Dynamic Systems Analysis

Background:

  • Automatic steering systems are crucial for vehicle safety and efficiency.
  • Time delays and external disturbances can significantly impact system stability.
  • Existing methods may not fully address the complexities of time-delayed steering control.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a systematic method for stability analysis of automatic steering systems with time delays.
  • To investigate the impact of increasing time delays on system stability.
  • To determine the critical time delay for maintaining stability.

Main Methods:

  • Modeling the automatic steering system with a Proportional-Derivative (PD) control algorithm.
  • Deriving time-delay dynamic models.
  • Utilizing the generalized Sturm criterion method for stability analysis.
  • Performing numerical simulations to validate results.

Main Results:

  • The study successfully calculated the time-delay stability interval and critical time delay.
  • The proposed method accurately determines the critical time delay.
  • Simulations confirmed system stability and accuracy under time-delayed conditions and external disturbances.

Conclusions:

  • The developed systematic method provides a robust approach to analyzing automatic steering system stability.
  • Understanding and calculating critical time delays is essential for reliable system performance.
  • The findings contribute to the design of safer and more stable autonomous driving systems.