The Impact of Automatic Control on Recent Developments in Transportation and Vehicle Systems
Troughout the field of transportation and vehicle systems control is gaining
importance. This report focuses on the current key problems engineers in this field are
facing and highlights some major recent accomplishments. The driving forces behind the
increasing use of control are the rising need for transportation services and the demand
for a higher safety level. While each domain takes specific approach to deal with these
demands, a general trend towards automatic co-pilots or even autopilots is visible. In
the automotive domain, this is aided by the design of drive by wire systems. In other
fields like marine or aerospace systems, the focus of research is on the swarming behavior
of multiple vessles. New sensors and networking will also enable more efficient traffic
flow control, which will allow for a better use of the resource network capacity. Another
trend in the vehicle systems sector is the modeling of nonlinear system behvaior, which is
starting to replace look-up tables in real time systems. A forecast on future trends is
given at the end of the report. Copyright © 2005 IFAC
Uwe Kiencke, Lars Nielsen, Robert Sutton, Klaus Schilling, Markos Papageorgiou and Hajime Asama
IFAC World Congress,
2005
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