Proposal of Speed Control Method for Automobile Based on Video Analysis of Landing Motion of Seagulls

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a speed control method for automobiles based on the landing motion of seagulls. We assume that seagulls have flexible speed control capability because they can accurately land at the target position with smoothly decelerating. Therefore, if we can reproduce the landing motion of seagulls within the framework of general control method in the following steps, it can be expected to realize excellent speed control method for automobiles. In this study, we construct the control method based on the empirical data from the viewpoint of the inverse problem of optimal control. Then, we show the effectiveness of the proposed method as a control method of automobile decelerating and stopping compared with the existing method.