LONGITUDINAL CONTROL OF AUTOMATED VEHICLES IN GUIDED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

A system model for a vehicle travelling on an automated mainline guideway under a synchronous moving-cell control philosophy is proposed. The model takes account of position, velocity and acceleration errors as well as the dynamics of the vehicle's propulsion system and the effects of stochastic input disturbances. It is assumed that not all the vehicle's states will be available for measurement and, in addition, any measured states will be corrupted by noise. It is further assumed that a sampled-data control system is to be employed. The dynamic behavior of the vehicle is initially described by a set of 1st-order, linear differential equations. The authors then develop the corresponding state-transition equation from which a state estimator and vehicle controller can be derived. The state estimator and controller are both optimal with respect to defined quadratic performance indices and, in addition, both are shown to be time-invariant and can be computed offline using simple recurrence relationships. The combined state-estimator and optimal-control law is shown to yield extremely good vehicle-response characteristics even with very noisy measurements and for large input disturbances.

• Corporate Authors:

  Institution of Electrical Engineers

  Savoy Place
  London WC2R 0BL, NY  England  10016-5997
• Authors:
  • Rumsey, Alan F
  • Powner, E T
• Conference:
  • Institution of Electrical Engineers, Proceedings
• Publication Date: 1974-11

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 1435-40
• Serial:
  • Volume: 121
  • Issue Number: 11

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated guideway transit; Command and control systems; Control systems; Mathematical models
• Old TRIS Terms: Automated guideway systems
• Subject Areas: Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00130888
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 7 1976 12:00AM