Professor Zhihong Man

Swinburne University of Technology

Further study of lateral dynamics of road vehicles

Abstract: 
In this talk, the lateral dynamics of road vehicles (LDRVs) is further studied from the view point of vehicle informatics. It is seen that the LDRVs is first decoupled in s-domain and the vehicle slip angle is proved to be directly observed or extracted from the yaw rate measurements. A new framework of parameter estimation methodology with the steady state information of yaw rate is then proposed, to accurately estimate the parameters of LDRVs in any fundamental period of sinusoidal steering angle input. Our new findings in this work will play a very important role of developing next generation of state estimation, parameter identification, soft-sensing, stability control and fault diagnosis of intelligent road vehicles. The simulation results are demonstrated to show the advantages and effectiveness of the new research results for LDRVs.

Biography:
 
   Zhihong received his B.E. degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, in 1982,  M.Sc degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1987, and PhD degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1994. From 1994 to 1996, Zhihong was the Lecturer in the Department of Computer and Communication Engineering at Edith Cowan University, Australia. From 1996 to 2001, he was the Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering at The University of Tasmania, Australia. From 2002 to 2007, he was the Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2007 to 2008, he was with Monash University Sunway Campus, served as the Professor and Head of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering and the Chair of the Monash Sunway Campus Research Committee. Zhihong is currently the Professor of Engineering in the School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
   Zhihong’s research interests are in nonlinear control, signal processing, robotics, neural networks, engineering optimization and vehicle dynamics & control. He has published more than 300 research papers in refereed international journals and refereed international conferences proceedings, and his research results have widely cited more than 18600 times by the researchers from many countries. Since 1994, Zhihong has been involved in many international conferences in control, robotics, signal processing, neural networks and industrial electronics as the General Chair, Program Committee Chair, Track Chair, Session Chair, and the International Advisory Committee and Technical Committees member.