A Terramechanics-based Dynamic Model for Motion Control of Unmanned Tracked Vehicles
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Existing terramechanics-based dynamic models for tracked vehicles (TRVs) are widely used in dynamics analysis. However, these models are incompatible with model-based controller design due to their high complexity and computational costs. This study presents a novel and simplified terramechanics-based dynamic model for TRVs that can be used in optimization-based real-time motion controller design. To this end, we approximated the track-ground interactions with an averaged term of the track-ground shear stresses to make the model computationally efficient and linearizable. By introducing the concepts of slip ratio and slip angle in the field of wheeled vehicles, the terramechanics-based dynamic model was finally simplified into a compact and practical single-track dynamic model reducing the demand for precise slip ratio measurements. The single-track model enables us to design an efficient motion control scheme by considering lateral and longitudinal dynamics separately. Finally, the proposed dynamic model was verified and validated under various road conditions using a real TRV. Additionally, the performance of different models was compared in simulation as an example to demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms the existing ones in TRV path-following tasks.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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