Design of high maneuverability vehicle with a stable controlled load-carrying platform for transporting rescues on disorderly ground

Abstract

A disaster, such a heavy rain or an earth quake, breaks many roads. People, which are suffered a damage, needs rescue however transport and rescue trucks cannot move on a disorderly ground because the truck's load shifted by inclination of the load-platform. This study designs a high maneuverability vehicle with a balance control of a load-carrying platform. The proposed vehicle can transport the rescues and the injury people on the disorderly ground. This study detected a delay time in regard of controlling the motion of the load-carrying platform. Generalized Minimum Variance Control, which is one of the predictive control, is applied to the control system.