Intelligent Control and Parameter Calculation of Highway Truck Escape Ramp

Abstract

To reduce the probability of secondary accidents caused by the direction deviation, body rollover, and excessive deceleration of runaway vehicles during braking on a truck escape ramp (TER), the safety of the occupants and the vehicles must be ensured. Based on the momentum theorem, an intelligent control method for a TER is proposed. In the method, a slope aggregate with a small rolling resistance coefficient is used on the original escape lane, and the information acquisition, braking device control, and braking modules are established. Through these modules, the operation parameters and control parameters of the out-of-control vehicle are obtained in advance, to control the operation state of the runaway vehicle. Achieve the purpose of reducing the braking effect of the slope bed aggregate and ensuring maximum utilization of the braking ramp. Finally, the proposed control method is simulated on the MATLAB/Simulink simulation platform. The results show that the control method can realize safe braking of an out-of-control vehicle at various speeds and different mass conditions, and it can play a highly significant role in the braking of high-speed and heavy-duty vehicles.

Keywords

• truck escape ramp
• momentum theorem
• whole vehicle body function
• intelligent control process
• control parameter