Abel Arrieta Castro

Vehicle Dynamics Engineer

Biography

I’m a Mechatronic Engineer graduated at the National University of Engineering (UNI) of Peru. I got my Master and Doctor degree at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). In addition, I spent nearly one year at the Labor Mehrkörpersimulation within the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg (OTH Regensburg) in Germany. Here, I worked as research assistant dealing with vehicle and tire dynamics, and control systems. Using this personal site, I would like to share my current research, publications in congress and journals as well as some posts about road vehicles, suspension systems, active safety system (e.g. ABS, ESP and 4WS), tire dynamics and self-driving cars.

Interests

Vehicle Dynamics
Active Safety Systems
Multibody Dynamics
Self-Driving Cars
Machine Learning

Education

D.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, 2017

PUC-Rio & OTH Regensburg
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, 2013

PUC-Rio
B.Sc. in Mechatronic Engineering, 2010

UNI-Peru

Selected Publications

Development of a robust integrated control system to improve the stability of road vehicles

Nowadays, new technologies are pushing the road vehicle limits further. Promising applications, e.g., self-driving cars, require a suitable control system that can maintain the vehicle's stability in critical scenarios. In most of current cars, the control systems actuates independently, meaning there is not a coordination or data sharing between them. This approach can produce a conflict between these standalone controllers and thus, no improvements on the vehicle's stability are achieved or even a worse scenario can be generated. In order to overcome these problems, an integrated approach is developed in this work. This integration, defined in this work as Integrated Control (IC), is done by an intelligence coordination of all standalone controllers inside the vehicle, i.e., Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS), Electronic Stability Program (ESP) and Four-Wheel Steering System (4WS). The ABS model was built using Fuzzy logic, for which only three rules were necessary to get a good performance. To design the ESP and the 4WS, the simple handling vehicle model was used as a reference behavior. The IC was designed using the hierarchical approach with two layers, i.e., the upper and lower layer. The upper one, observes the side slip angle and depends of its value the upper layer triggers the ESP or the 4WS. Finally, in order to prove the improvements of the IC system over the non-integrated approach, a full-size vehicle model was used to perform simulation in run-off-road and mu-split scenarios.

Abel Arrieta Castro, Hans I. Weber, Georg Rill

In MuSMe 2017

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Recent Publications

The Influence of Axle Kinematics on Vehicle Dynamics
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Development of a robust integrated control system to improve the stability of road vehicles
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Use of integrated control to enhance the safety of vehicles in run-off-road scenarios
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Designing an integrated vehicle control based on a hierarchical architecture to improve the performance of ground vehicles
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A method to estimate parameters of longitudinal and lateral dynamics of ground vehicles
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Estimation of dynamic parameters of ground vehicles based on genetic algorithms
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Virtual Test Axle Kinematics
The virtual test axle kinematics in python.
PyCar: The virtual test car in Python
The virtual test car in python.

Contact

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abel DOT arrietac AT gmail DOT com
Lima, Peru.