Automatic Anti-Lock Brake System for Anti-Rollover Control of Autonomous Heavy-Duty Truck

Automatic Anti-Lock Brake System for Anti-Rollover Control of Autonomous Heavy-Duty Truck

In recent years, there are more and more rollover accidents about autonomous heavy-duty trucks or autonomous heavy-duty forklifts in intelligent airports or seaports. These accidents lead to the hot research field about the prevention of rollovers in advance for autonomous vehicles, especially for autonomous heavy-duty trucks or forklifts. This paper develops an automatic Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) as one way to stabilize autonomous vehicles. Through monitoring both vehicle's and wheel's speeds, this proposed ABS helps the autonomous vehicles keep stability control even when the wheels halt or slip on the road. This paper adopts TruckSim to model the vehicle safety dynamics and MATLAB/Simulink to simulate the vehicle stability control. Experimental results show that the elaborate automatic ABS proposed by this paper can smoothly keep the vehicle stable and tractive even under dangerous road conditions of a sharp corner or hairpin turn.