Analysis and Optimisation of a New Differential Steering Concept (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783832555788)

The emergence of electric drives opens up new opportunities in vehicle design. For example, powerful in-wheel motors pro -vide unprecedented flexibility in chassis design and are suitable for distributed drive solutions, although implying non-trivial vehicle dynamics control problems. This work aims at a new differential steering concept relying only on passive steering linkages where the necessary steering moment about the kingpins is generated by traction force differences produced by in-wheel motors. For the analysis of the proposed steering concept, a tailored multi-body system model is introduced along with the associated steering control system. In addition, this work explores the general applicability of such a new steering concept by using multi-objective optimisation. For this purpose, various design objectives and constraints are defined with respect to the dynamic, steady-state and low-speed steering performance of the vehicle. The resulting behaviour of the proposed steering concept is investigated by various simulation experiments demonstrating a comparable steering performance to that of conventional passenger cars.

Author: Marton Kuslits
ISBN-10: 3832555781
ISBN-13: 9783832555788
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2022
Pages: 147
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs