Mechatronics - Future for Vehicles

Abstract

The article describes analysis of land vehicles development (tractors, automobiles etc). There are three main branches (aims) of modern vehicles development. Firstly, application of mechatronics modules and systems for designing nowadays vehicles are believed to be an up-to date constructing method. Thus a vehicle for future will be consists of different modules. Secondly, a new theory should be developed. The theory should describe designing/control principles of the modules and their interaction as part of the main system. Thirdly, the main control system of all the mechatronics modules should be developed. Due to the control system autonomous driving can be designed. BMSTU has been studying the issues described. For example a mechatronics-based locomotion module for vehicle is being developed. All wheel steering as one of the main functions of the mechatronics-based locomotion module is considered. The steering drive place in conceptual scheme of automated steering system, developed and tested by researches in BMSTU, is shown. Comparison between all wheel steering with an independent drive and all wheel steering with centralized drive are proposed. Thus we can conclude that the main tendency of modern vehicle designing is application and development mechatronic modules and systems. The next articles will describes further BMSTU research connected with the mechatronics-based locomotion module, its designing and modeling approach.