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Implementation and Tests of Antilock Braking Algorithm for a heavy vehicle

  • Lee, Ki-Chang;Jeongwoo Jeon;Donha Hwang;Kim, Yongjoo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.67.4-67
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    • 2002
  • Antilock brake System (ABS) is a essential safety equipment for modern vehicles. It prevents wheels from being locked-up when emergency braking of a vehicle is required. So it can improves directional stability of the vehicle, shortens stopping distance. Heavy Vehicles such as trucks and buses use mainly pneumatic pressures for their braking systems, where pneumatic modulators control the flow rate of compressed air thus braking pressures in the wheels. In this paper, a antilock braking algorithm which is suitable for heavy vehicles was developed. This algorithm uses limit cycle of wheels and is implemented in the ABS ECU. The developed algorithm and ECU were tested in the labo..

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Failure Management Plan of the Rubber-Tired AGT Light Rail Vehicle (고무차륜 AGT 경량전철 차량의 고장관리 계획)

  • Kim Y.S.;Park S.H.;Lee A.H.;Han S.Y.
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.139-144
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    • 2003
  • This study was aimed to establish failure management plan of the rubber-tired AGT light rail vehicle for its safety case, which was developed according to the Korean standardized specifications for the light rail vehicle. Vehicular 9 failure modes anticipated during the system operation were considered, which are single malfunction of redundant equipment, malfunction of train radio, public address and air compressor, battery, main circuit NFB trip, on-board ATO control device malfunction, on-board ATP control device malfunction, fail of brake release, flat tire, train emergency door open.

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A Study on the design of ABS ECU for a commercial vehicle(BUS) and its control algorithm (상용차용 ABS의 ECU 설계 및 제어 알고리즘에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Ki-Chang;Kim, Moon-Sup;Jeon, Jung-Woo;Hwang, Don-Ha;Park, Doh-Young;Kim, Yong-Joo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2000.11d
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    • pp.612-614
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    • 2000
  • ABS(Anti-lock Braking System) is a device which prevents the lock-up of car wheels during emergency braking. It helps to maintain the steerability since the tire-road slip is controlled in an acceptable range. By maintaining the maximal frictional force during braking. ABS can reduce the braking distance. Recently, ABS is accepted as a standard equipment in vehicles, especially in commercial vehicles(bus and trucks). Commercial vehicles mostly use pneumatic pressure for braking. In this paper, ECU(Electronic Control Unit) for the anti-lock braking system of a commercial vehicle which is equipped with a full-air brake system and its control algorithms are presented.

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An Investigation of Performance Characteristics of A Biogas-Fueled Motorcycle Engine (바이오 가스 이륜차 기관의 성능 특성 연구)

  • Huynh, Thanh Cong;Chiem, Tran Lam;Vu, Thi Kim Chau
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.373-381
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    • 2012
  • To determine the performance characteristics of motorcycle engine using biogas for practical use, the intake system of a 110 cc motorcycle engine is properly modified to operate with biogas as a fuel. Biogas is a potentially renewable fuel for replacing gasoline in future, but it has high percentage of $CO_2$ that could lead to slow the burning rate of biogas-air mixture and cause instability in combustion. Thus, the performance characteristics of biogas-fueled motorcycle engines could be different from those of gasoline motorcycle engines. In this paper, the important parameters of performance characteristics (such as: power output, thermal efficiency, fuel consumption, exhaust emission,${\cdots}$) of biogas-fueled motorcycle engine are studied and estimated with change of engine speed and load. The obtained results when operating with biogas are used to compare with that of gasoline fuel under the same operating conditions. Engine speed in the experimental is changed from 1500 rpm (idle-mode) up to 3500 rpm by a step of 500 rpm. Engine load is changed from zero to maximum load with the help of an exciting voltage device from generator-type dynamometer. The experimental results show that the tested engine operated with richer biogas-air mixture than that of gasoline-air mixture under the same test conditions. Biogas-fueled engine gives a higher fuel consumption and lower thermal efficiency under the same power output. Brake thermal efficiency of biogas engine is found to be about 3% lower than gasoline-fueled motorcycle engine for whole range of speed. Exhaust emission of biogas-fueled motorcycle engine (such as: CO, HC) is found to be lower than the limitation level of the emission standards of Vietnam for motorcycle engines (CO <4.5% HC <1200 ppm).

Constraint Analysis for the Sizing of Roadable PAV Considering Domestic Environments (국내환경을 고려한 도로주행형 PAV 사이징을 위한 구속조건 해석)

  • Cha, Jae-Young;Hwang, Ho-Yon;Lim, Eun-Ha;Kim, Seok-Beom
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.111-122
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    • 2018
  • At present, the ground transportation system is saturated in many countries including Korea. To overcome this problem, many researches of developing a roadable personal air vehicle (PAV) are being carried out to alleviate traffic congestion and to accomplish door-to-door mobility through three-dimensional traffic system. In this study, the thrust-to-weight ratio, the wing loading, and the power-to-weight ratio that are major design parameters for the sizing of roadable PAVs were calculated under the constraints of ground roll, climb rate, maximum cruise speed, service ceiling, stall speed. Also, in the sizing process, the study was conducted to determine the design point using the graphs of thrust-to-weight ratio, wing loading, power-to-weight ratio, and brake horse power for the mission profiles considering domestic environments and the FAR PART 23 which is the GA class aircraft certification standard.

A Experimental Study on the Electronic Control Hysteresis Phenomenon of Lean Burn in Spark Ignition Engine (스파크 점화 엔진에서 희박연소의 전자제어 히스테리시스 현상에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 김응채;김판호;서병준;김치원;이치우
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.475-481
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    • 2004
  • Recently it is strongly required on lower fuel consumption. lower exhaust emission, higher engine performance. and social demands in a spark ignition gasoline engine. In this study. the experimental engine used at test. it has been modified the lean burn gasoline engine. and used the programmable engine management system, and connected the controller circuit which is designed for the engine control. At the parametric study of the engine experiment, it has been controlled with fuel injection, ignition timing. swirl mode, equivalence ratio engine dynamometer load and speed as the important factors governing the engine performance adaptively. It has been found the combustion characteristics to overcome the hysteresis phenomena between normal and lean air-fuel mixing ranges. by mean of the look-up table set up the mapping values. at the optimum conditions during the engine operation. As the result, it is found that the strength of the swirl flow with the variation of engine speed and load is effective on combustion characteristics to reduce the bandwidth of the hysteresis regions. The results show that mass fraction burned and heat release rate pattern with crank angle are reduced much rather, and brake specific fuel consumption is also reduced simultaneously.

Comparison of Combustion, Emissions and Efficiency Characteristics as Varying Spark Timings and Excess air ratios in an Ammonia-fueled Direct Injection Spark Ignition Engine (직접분사식 암모니아 전소 엔진에서 점화 시기와 공기과잉률의 변경에 따른 연소 및 배기, 효율 특성 비교)

  • Yonghun Jang;Cheolwoong Park;Yongrae Kim;Young Choi;Chanki Min;Seungwoo Lee;Hongkil Baek;Jeongwoo Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2023
  • Due to the development of the industrial revolution, regulations on exhaust emissions have been continuously strengthened to reduce the rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions. The use of environmentally friendly fuels is essential to meet these regulations. Hydrogen has been attracting attention as a future environmentally friendly fuel, but due to its material properties, it faces significant challenges in handling and storage. As an alternative, ammonia has been proposed. Ammonia can be easily liquefied at room temperature compared to hydrogen and has a high energy density. In order to examine the applicability of ammonia as an engine fuel, experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of changes in combustion control parameters in a direct injection ammonia combustion engine. The experiments were conducted by varying two variables: spark timing and excessive air ratio. Observations were made on combustion stability and the trends of exhaust emissions such as nitrogen oxides and unburned ammonia under the conditions of an engine speed of 1,500 rpm and medium to high loads (brake torque of 200 Nm). By optimizing the combustion control parameters, conditions for stable combustion even when using ammonia as the sole fuel were identified, and plans are underway to apply strategies for future expansion of the operating range.

A Study on Engine Performance at the Intake Air Compensation by Supercharging in the Low Speed Diesel-Atkinson Cycle (과급에 의한 흡입공기 보상 시 저속 디젤-아트킨슨사이클에서 엔진성능에 대한 연구)

  • Jang, Tae-Ik
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.35 no.8
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    • pp.1009-1015
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    • 2011
  • In this study, in the high expansion cycle was conduced by variable valve timing system composition to close intake valve late, and in the intake air reduction on the low compression was solved by supercharging pressure. In this wise, by constituting Diesel-Atkinson cycle, this study looked into a possibility of thermal efficiency improvement. As a result, there was improvement in thermal efficiency and output in a whole range of closing timing from ABDC $40^{\circ}$ to ABDC $80^{\circ}$. However, after ABDC $70^{\circ}$ of closing timing, the thermal efficiency increase was getting smaller. As the result of the study, the optimum intake valve closing timing was about ABDC $70^{\circ}$, high loading territory of engine was more effective than low loading territory, and engine operation in middle loading territory was stable. At this time, brake thermal efficiency was 12.5% higher than ordinary engine on average.

Effects of hydrogen-enriched LPG fuelled engine on exhaust emission and thermal efficiency (LPG 엔진에서 수소첨가에 따른 배기 성능과 열효율에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, jinho;Cho, unglae;Choi, gyeungho
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.169-176
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of study is to obtain low-emission and high-efficiency in LPG engine with hydrogen enrichment. The test engine was named heavy-duty variable compression ratio single cylinder engine (VCSCE). The fuel supply system provides LPG/hydrogen mixtures based on same heating value. Various sensors such as crank shaft position sensor (CPS) and hall sensor supply spark timing data to ignition controller. Displacement of VCSCE is $1858.2cm^3$. VCSCE was runned 1400rpm with compression ratio 8. Spark timing was set MBT without knocking. Relative air-fuel ratio(${\lambda}$) of this work was varied between 0.76 and 1.5. As a result, i) Maximum thermal efficiency occurred at ${\lambda}$ value 1.0. It was shown that thermal efficiency was increased approximately 5% with hydrogen enrichment at same ${\lambda}$ value. ii) Engine-out carbon monoxide (CO) emissions were decreased at a great rate under LPG/hydrogen mixture fuelling. iii) Total hydrocarbon (THC) emission was much exhausted in rich zone, same as CO. But THC was exhausted a little bit more in lean zone. iv) Finally, engine-out oxides of nitrogen (NOx) was increased with ${\lambda}$ value 1.0 zone at a greater rate with hydrogen enrichment due to high adiabatic flame temperature.

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Follow-Up Survey Fire Truck Deterioration (소방자동차 노후화에 따른 고장 발생원인 추적조사 연구)

  • Lee, Jang-Won;Kim, Eui-Tae;Rie, Dong-Ho
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.59-64
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    • 2015
  • This study analyzed results of the causes of failure in 1,022 fire trucks currently being used in South Korea (aerial ladder, aerial platform, pumper, and chemical fire trucks). The results show that 46% of aerial ladder trucks have defective in the elevator brake systems, 29% of aerial platform trucks have contamination in the hydraulic oil, 37% of pumpers have defective in the pneumatic cylinders of the air supply system, and 39% of chemical fire trucks have defective in the powder fire extinguishing systems. The principal reasons for malfunctions are deterioration of the apparatuses, and accumulated fatigue from repetitive use of certain components, such as pneumatic cylinders in the air supply system and wire rope jamming in rollers in the ladder apparatus. These manufacturing defects should be improved upon in the manufacturing process. As a result, the fire trucks, which are used for 5 years or more, need precise inspections in accordance with the Regulation on Fire Apparatus Maintenance. Fire apparatuses have a service life of 10 to 12 years or more. They need to be replaced or require life extension, and they should be kept in top shape with the best maintenance for public safety.