The effect of alterations in track and wheelbase on vehicle driving behaviour / by 424729 Bohm, F., Motor Industry Research Association (Great Britain)

Active Wheelbase Design for Narrow Track Vehicle Stability by Tan Jeffrey Too Chuan, Huang Yitsao, Yoshihiro Suda, Akira Mizuno, Munehisa Horiguchi

“…In this work, a new design concept named “Active Wheelbase” was proposed to improve the vehicle stability during cornering. …”
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A Virtual Instrument for Road Vehicle Classification Based on Piezoelectric Transducers by Bernardino González, Francisco J. Jiménez, José De Frutos

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Research on Aerodynamic Characteristics of Water-air Amphibious Solar Four-rotor by Ruan Yongjing, Wang Qi, Zou Sen, Chen Jinming

“…However, due to the existence of solar panels, the installation height and wheelbase of the rotor will affect the aerodynamic efficiency of the whole aircraft. …”
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A Novel Vehicle Classification Using Embedded Strain Gauge Sensors by Qi Wang, Chunguang Suo, Wenbin Zhang

“…According to the special arrangement of the sensors and the different time a vehicle arrived at the sensors one can estimate the vehicle’s speed accurately, corresponding to the estimated vehicle wheelbase and number of axles. Because of measurement errors and vehicle characteristics, there is a lot of overlap between vehicle wheelbase patterns. …”
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HFO-LADRC Lateral Motion Controller for Autonomous Road Sweeper by Dequan Zeng, Zhuoping Yu, Lu Xiong, Zhiqiang Fu, Zhuoren Li, Peizhi Zhang, Bo Leng, Fengwu Shan

“…Considering the obvious influence, wheelbase uncertainty, steering ratio uncertainty and Gaussian white noise disturbance were taken into account for the tests. …”
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A Deformable Configuration Planning Framework for a Parallel Wheel-Legged Robot Equipped with Lidar by Fei Guo, Shoukun Wang, Binkai Yue, Junzheng Wang

“…The wheel-legged hybrid robot (WLHR) is capable of adapting height and wheelbase configuration to traverse obstacles or rolling in confined space. …”
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Research of Curve Passing Performance of Track Car in Vehicle Group Chain Conveyor based on SIMPACK by Yang Li, Yaocheng Zhang, Zhaojian Yang, Xianglei Li

“…Track car with smaller wheelbase and articulated body can adapt to curved track. …”
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Quantitative Study of Load Stability of Quadrotor Based on Lyapunov Exponents by Tiantian Dong, Yonghong Zhang, Yunping Liu, Cheng Chen

“…The experiments demonstrate that changing the wheelbase and load mass improves flight motion stability, ensuring the reliability of the quadrotor flight system. …”
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Auto-Calibration Methods of Kinematic Parameters and Magnetometer Offset for the Localization of a Tracked Mobile Robot by Luciano Cantelli, Samuel Ligama, Giovanni Muscato, Davide Spina

“…The proposed algorithm estimates, by using an extended Kalman filter, the main kinematic parameters of the vehicles, such as the wheel radii and the wheelbase as well as the magnetometer offset. Several trials have been performed to validate the proposed strategy on a tracked electrical mobile robot. …”
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The Design and Simulation of a Quadruped Multi-mode Mobile Robot by Xinyue Yu, Chunyan Zhang, An Ping, Bing Ding, Jie Yang

“…When the robot is in walking mode， it can walk on ordinary flat road； when in obstacle crossing mode， you can climb over obstacles by raising the height of your legs； when in the semi folding mode， the wheelbase can be shortened through the folding of the platform for narrow road conditions. …”
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Determination of risk factors associated with severity level of motorcycle–passenger car crashes by Zainal Abidin, Ahmad Noor Syukri

“…Meanwhile the injury type model concludes that motorcycle wheelbase deformation and crash participant at fault status were significant to predict riders lower extremity injuries. …”
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Structural Analysis & Shape Optimization for a Control Arm of a Vehicle’s Suspension. by Abdul Rehman Ahmad, Mian Muhammad Asim Zahir

“…Additionally, the part is exposed to intense loads while performing its duty because the wheelbase is attached to the chassis on one end. To create sustainable and competitive products, component material and design selection is a crucial topic in the industry. …”
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Study on the Effect of Damping Asymmetry of the Vertical Suspension on the Railway Bogie Vibrations by Mădălina Dumitriu

“…To these, the geometric filtering effect due to the bogie wheelbase is added, which has a selective nature depending on velocity. …”
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Efficiency Enhancement Design Approach in the Side Wing of a FSAE Car Utilizing a Shutter-Like Fairing Structure by Xiaojing Qi, Yuxin Ou, Hance Zhang, Da Wang

“…Taking the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) cars as an example, side wing structure is frequently adopted for better grip in the mid-back of short wheelbase, open wheel race cars. This research designs a shutter-like fairing structure and utilizes it to weaken the vorticity and reinforce the pressure of side wing flow field. …”
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Rancang Bangun dan Uji Performansi Alat Penyiang Gulma pada Tanaman Kacang Tanah by Muhammad Dhafir, Andriani Lubis, Cut Zakiyya

“…The results showed that the dimensions of the weed clean device was 1332 mm long, connecting rods were made of pipe with a diameter of I inch, wide handlebars 732 mm diameter, wheel steering handlebars handheld was 48 mm, wheelbase was 150 mm steel, blade was made of steel plate 2 mm with a length of 250 mm and a width of 20 mm. …”
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A Novel Vision- and Radar-Based Line Tracking Assistance System for Drone Transmission Line Inspection by Wei Wang, Zhening Shen, Zhengran Zhou

“…The proposed inspection scheme is validated in settings with 10-kilovolt and 110-kilovolt transmission lines using a drone with a diagonal wheelbase of 0.275 m. The experimental process is available in the YouTube link provided. …”
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Load Effect of Automated Truck Platooning on Highway Bridges and Loading Strategy by Tianyang Ling, Lu Deng, Wei He, Haibing Wu, Jiayu Deng

“…Results show that the load effect of ATP on bridges increases with the increase in the gross vehicle mass and the truck platooning size but decreases with the increasing inter-truck spacing and the critical wheelbase. The Grade-I (best quality standard) highway bridges are generally capable of withstanding the ATP loads, while caution should be exercised for other bridges. …”
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Vehicle Load Spectrum and Fatigue Vehicle Model of a Long-Span Concrete-Filled Steel Tube (CFST) Arch Bridge Based on Measured Data of Weight-In-Motion System by Luming Deng, Yulin Deng

“…Therefore, according to the measured data, 10 representative models are proposed to facilitate the classification and screening of vehicle data. The wheelbase, mass, axle load, and overload data of the representative vehicle types were analysed, and the axle load distribution characteristics of vehicles in different lanes were studied. …”
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PPO-Based Attitude Controller Design for a Tilt Rotor UAV in Transition Process by Rui Yang, Changping Du, Yao Zheng, Huzhen Gao, Yuean Wu, Tianrui Fang

“…Our proposed reward function improves the attitude control performance and the designed RL controller has good adaptability to changes in the takeoff weight, the diagonal wheelbase and the tilt rate. This study highlights the effectiveness and potential of reinforcement learning for tilt-rotor UAV transition process attitude control. …”
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