Road grade estimation for look-ahead vehicle control using multiple measurement runs

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1328-1341

  Sahlholm, Per ^a,b   Henrik Johansson Karl, K ^b  

^a SCANIA CV AB   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Automotive system identification and modeling; General automobile road environment strategies; Global positioning systems; Kalman filters; Road traffic; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149357225     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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