Development of a novel sensorless longitudinal road gradient estimation method based on vehicle CAN bus data

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 375-386

  Mangan, Stephen ^a,b   Wang, Jihong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Energetix Group plc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estimation; Road vehicle control; Road vehicle identification; System modeling; Wall climbing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEM APPLICATIONS; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SENSORS;

CONTROLLER AREA NETWORK (CAN); INCLINOMETER SENSOR; ROAD GRADIENT INFORMATION; ROAD VEHICLE CONTROL; ROAD VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION; ROAD-GRADIENT ESTIMATION METHOD; SENSORLESS ESTIMATION;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34347382744     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2007.897286     Document Type: Article

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