Abstract
Increasing highway traffic congestion and high cost of ics. building new highways have brought out a renewed design of an Automated Highway System (AHS). Since safety is an important issue in the development of an AHS, fault-tolerant control in the brake system is vital. In this thesis, nonlinear failure detection filters are used for fault detection of sensors and actuators in a class of nonlinear systems. In this thesis, the effects of brake system failures in an AHS where the vehicle steering task (lateral control) and the braking/throttle tasks (longitudinal control) are considered. It is assumed that each vehicle is equipped with four individual brake actuators, one at each wheel. Detecting faults in a brake system and designing a fault tolerant brake control algorithm will be implemented and demonstrated by vehicle platoon simulations.
Hsien, Li-Wei (1998). Fault tolerant control of automatically controlled vehicles in response to brake system failures. Master's thesis, Texas A&M University. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /ETD -TAMU -1998 -THESIS -H74.