Daniel Görges's research while affiliated with RPTU - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau and other places

Publications (78)

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5G ultra-reliable low-latency communication (uRLLC) requires extremely low latency and high reliability to serve safety-critical user ends (UEs) and applications. To fulfill those requirements, many uRLLC-related tasks are simplified for Quality of Service (QoS) analysis. Commonly Poisson or Bernoulli distributions are assumed for the incoming traf...
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In this paper, an investigation of different IoU loss functions and a spatial attention mechanism within anchor- free object detectors is presented. Two anchor-free dense predictor models are studied: FASF and FCOS models. The models are tested on two different datasets: the benchmark COCO dataset and a small dataset called OPEDD. The results show...
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In this paper, a robust adaptive vibration control method for gantry crane system is proposed considering unknown parameters brought by unknown payload, cable length and tension. The control objective is to transport the cargo to the desired position while suppressing the vibration of the cable in the presence of unknown parameters. For this purpos...
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Pose estimation is a computer vision task used to estimate a skeleton of dynamic systems to predict future movements. Most of the research in this direction is based on a supervised learning approach which requires a massive amount of labeled datasets. In this paper, a self-supervised three-stage model based on a contrastive learning approach is in...
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Path tracking controllers are an important part when developing self-driving vehicles. When designing such a controller for a single-track vehicle, a major challenge is that the vehicle not only has to follow a predefined path but has to be stabilized at the same time. Especially if the vehicle has slow steering dynamics (e.g. τ > 1.5s) and the pat...
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Path tracking controllers are an important part when developing self-driving vehicles. When designing such a controller for a single-track vehicle, a major challenge is that the vehicle not only has to follow a predefined path but has to be stabilized at the same time. Especially if the vehicle has slow steering dynamics (e.g. τ > 1.5s) and the pat...
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Robust tracking of piece‐wise constant reference signals for constrained systems with parametric plant uncertainty and additive disturbances is addressed in this paper. The parametric uncertainty is decreased online by set‐membership estimation and a nominal model is updated for improving set‐point tracking. The online estimated parametric uncertai...
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div class="section abstract"> In recent years, the automotive industry has shifted from purely combustion engine-driven vehicles towards hybridization due to the introduction of CO<sub>2</sub> emission legislation. Hybrid powertrains also represent an important pillar and starting point in the journey towards zero-emission and full electrification....
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Although the literature is rich in numerous approaches for driver modeling, it has been lately discovered that relatively few investigations have been done in replicating driving behaviors using unsupervised driver clustering techniques. This paper suggests a novel driver categorization approach and uses a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) to repli...
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In der industriellen und akademischen Forschung ist eine Vielzahl verschiedener Konzepte für Fahrsimulatoren zu finden. Das Spektrum reicht dabei von statischen „Low-End-Simulatoren“ bis zu sehr komplexen „High-End- Simulatoren“ mit hoher Dynamik und z.T. mehr als sechs Freiheitsgraden. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird ein Fahrsimulator mit 6 Freiheits...
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In a typical car-following scenario, target vehicle speed fluctuations act as an external disturbance to the host vehicle and in turn affect its energy consumption. To control a host vehicle in an energy-efficient manner using model predictive control (MPC), and moreover, enhance the performance of an ecological adaptive cruise control (EACC) strat...
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In a typical car-following scenario, target vehicle speed fluctuations act as an external disturbance to the host vehicle and in turn affect its energy consumption. To control a host vehicle in an energy-efficient manner using model predictive control (MPC), and moreover, enhance the performance of an ecological adaptive cruise control (EACC) strat...
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This paper deals with a traction control system (TCS) for combine harvesters. Off-road vehicles typically have a lower traction efficiency compared to on-road vehicles. The rising demand for high-power agricultural machines leads to a significant need for higher traction efficiency to reduce power loss. A TCS can help to increase the traction effic...
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In this paper, the boundary feedback control problem for the Euler–Bernoulli beam with unknown time-varying distributed load and boundary disturbance is investigated. Based on the Lagrangian–Hamiltonian mechanics, the model of the beam is derived as a partial differential equation. To suppress the external disturbance, two disturbance rejection con...
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div class="section abstract"> For electric vehicles the ability for regenerative braking reduces the use of friction brakes. Particularly on the rear axle of vehicles with reduced dynamic requirements such as urban vehicles, this can offer a potential for downsizing or, in extreme cases, even the elimination of the friction brakes on the rear axle....
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This paper addresses the stabilization problem of an Euler–Bernoulli beam system subject to an unknown time-varying distributed load and boundary disturbance. Based on Lagrangian–Hamiltonian mechanics, the model of the beam system is derived as a partial differential equation. Based on Lyapunov functions, a sliding surface is designed, on which the...
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Accurate estimates of the dynamical states of bicycles are crucial for many advanced rider assistance systems. However, systems that can provide an exact estimate of the system states (especially the system orientations) are often expensive and therefore cannot be used in mass production. In this work, a method is presented that estimates the dynam...
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This work proposes an eco-driving assistance system (EDAS) based on model predictive control (MPC) with a primary objective to improve the driver's driving style in an energy-efficient manner. To improve the efficiency of an EDAS, a learning-based approach to model the driver behavior from urban driving data collected using a dynamic driving simula...
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Regenerative braking reduces the use of friction brakes for electric vehicles. This can offer a potential for downsizing or, in extreme cases, even elimination of the friction brakes particularly on the rear axle of vehicles with reduced dynamic requirements. However, the elimination of wheel individual rear axle brakes makes wheel individual brake...
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Current electric vehicles (EVs) already perform most braking maneuvers by recuperation using the electric powertrain. In order to generate additional benefits regarding cost, weight, brake dust emission and design freedom, there might be the option to omit the brake system and solely brake by recuperation. The potential elimination or downsizing of...
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Vehicles with at least one electric motor and an electric energy supply system for vehicle propulsion are subsumed under the term Electric Vehicle (EV). Focusing on EVs for road use having one or more electric motors and a battery, which is charged from the power grid, this article gives an overview of the technical aspects of the EV concept. The E...
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This paper proposes an ecological adaptive cruise control (EACC) concept with the primary goal to minimize the fuel consumption in a city bus with an internal combustion engine (ICE). A hybrid model predictive control (HMPC) is implemented in this work to control both continuous and discrete-time variables. Moreover, a multi-objective optimization...
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The problem of event-triggered control for discrete-time piecewise-affine systems subject to input saturation and bounded disturbance is investigated in this paper. An LMI-based event-triggered controller is designed to guarantee the local asymptotic stability by introducing auxiliary feedback matrices to handle input saturation. In addition, the r...
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In model predictive control, the control action is found at each sampling time by solving an online optimization problem. Computationally, this step is very demanding, especially if compared to the evaluation of traditional control laws. This has limited the application of model predictive control to systems with slow dynamics for many years. Recen...
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In this paper a novel integrated adaptive dynamic programming method with an advantage function is developed to solve model-free optimal control problems and improve the control performance. The advantage function is utilized to evaluate the cost resulting from the action (control variables) which does not follow the optimal control policy. The Q f...
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In this paper the trajectory planning problem for unicycle robots is studied. This problem is particularly difficult to solve online due to its inherently nonlinear and nonconvex structure. The first aim of the paper is to overcome these difficulties using model predictive control (MPC) when a single robot is considered. Several requirements must b...
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Many control problems contain time-varying or parameter-varying dynamics. With model predictive control (MPC), it is possible to include known plant variations into the controller for improving control performance. Unfortunately, perfect knowledge of the plant is rarely available and the accurateness of models may change over time and operating poi...
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Fast Model Predictive Control (Fast MPC) is a set of techniques which aim at reducing the complexity of solving receding horizon control optimization problems. One method consists in exploiting the structure induced by the system dynamics. This drastically reduces the complexity of the problem from cubic to linear dependence on the horizon length....
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Bicycle forks are prone to bending, introducing a flexible structure between front wheel and vehicle body. This has substantial influence on brake control, not only by altering the system dynamics but also causing serious estimation problems. These consist in considerable measurement errors in the incremental wheel speed and longitudinal tyre veloc...
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The design of effective energy interfaces for electric vehicles needs an integrated perspective on the technical and psychological factors that together establish real-world vehicle energy efficiency. The objective of the present research was to provide a transdisciplinary synthesis of key factors for the design of energy interfaces for battery ele...
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In parallel hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), the power split between the engine and the electric motor as well as the gear shift in the gearbox determines the overall energy efficiency. In this paper an adaptive energy management strategy with velocity forecast is proposed to optimize the fuel consumption in parallel HEVs, which is formulated into...
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This paper addresses the integration of the energy management and the shift control in parallel hybrid electric vehicles with dual-clutch transmission to reduce the fuel consumption, decrease the pollutant emissions, and improve the driving comfort simultaneously. Dynamic programming with a varying weighting factor in the cost function is proposed...
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The problem of event-triggered control is investigated for discrete-time piecewise affine systems subject to input saturation. Linear matrix inequality (LMI) based on local stability criterion is formed by introducing a nonlinear dead-zone function which represent saturation characteristics. Unique state feedback control gains can be obtained by so...
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In this paper distributed adaptive linear quadratic control of discrete-time linear large-scale systems with unknown dynamics using distributed reinforcement learning is studied. Linear quadratic control based on dynamic programming (specifically policy iteration) and adaptive linear quadratic control based on reinforcement learning (especially Q l...
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A novel energy-optimal adaptive cruise control (EACC) function based on model predictive control (MPC) is developed for electric vehicles (EV). Through exploiting the surrounding traffic information, MPC based EACC plans an optimal speed trajectory for the controlled host car, in order to reduce its energy consumption and track its preceding car at...
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The control of the transmission system in vehicles is significant for the driving comfort. In order to design a controller for smooth shifting and comfortable driving, a dynamic model of a dual-clutch transmission is presented in this paper. A finite-time linear quadratic regulator is proposed for the optimal control of the two friction clutches in...
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In this paper a novel approach for energy-optimal adaptive cruise control (ACC) combining model predictive control (MPC) and dynamic programming (DP) is presented. The approach uses knowledge about a given route to precalculate a position-dependent energy-optimal speed trajectory using DP while taking information like speed limits, road slope, and...
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An easily moving and safe transportation is an indicator in any country in the world of economic growth and well-being. For the past 100 years, innovation within the automotive sector has brought major technological advances leading to safer, cleaner and more affordable vehicles. But for the most time since the inception of the moving assembly line...
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In this paper an output-based model predictive controller for linear time-invariant discrete-time networked control systems subject to constraints is studied. In the networked control system the control loop is closed over a communication network between sensor and controller as well as controller and actuator. An output-based controller using a Lu...
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In this paper relations between model predictive control and reinforcement learning are studied for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems with state and input constraints and a quadratic value function. The principles of model predictive control and reinforcement learning are reviewed in a tutorial manner. From model predictive control theory...
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Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) methods that are based on iterative optimization algorithms normally require a large number of communications between the controllers, especially when the number of subsystems is large. This can easily result in overloading the network which is normally shared between many different users. Therefore metho...
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This paper presents a simplified approach for energy-efficient adaptive cruise control based on model predictive control (MPC). The goal of the approach is to reduce the energy consumption of a controlled vehicle by using MPC to smoothen the velocity profile such that the acceleration and deceleration are minimized considering available environment...
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In this paper an approach for an energy-optimal adaptive cruise control based on model predictive control (MPC) is presented. The approach uses the knowledge of the given route to precalculate a position-dependent energy-optimal speed trajectory using dynamic programming while taking additional information like speed limits, road slope and travel t...
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The aim of this study is to quantize the effectiveness of actuating on bicycle braking dynamics with focus on critical rectilinear maneuvers, namely wheel-lock and nose-over. Those situations define the physical limits of rectilinear bicycle braking. The objective is to gain a profound understanding of the limits of unactuated vehicle dynamics by c...
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In this paper a stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) scheme for linear systems with additive disturbance is presented. The goal is to design a controller that minimizes the expected value of an objective function while guaranteeing mean-square exponential input-tostate stability (MSE-ISS) and constraints on the states and inputs. The SMPC is...
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Besides a fair distribution of limited resources among competing plants in a networked embedded control system (NECS) an efficient utilization of such scarce resources is crucial. Therefore, a novel event-based codesign concept for NECSs with limited communication bandwidth and computation capacity is presented in this paper. The codesign concept i...
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This paper considers event-triggering controller design for directly observable discrete-time linear systems subject to bounded disturbances. The main control objective is diminishing the influence aroused by the disturbances despite a reduction of the communication. Criteria are given to design feedback controllers in order to guarantee that syste...
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Political regulations to increase the fuel efficiency of vehicles are leading to hybrid electric vehicles offering more flexibility for operating the internal combustion engine and increasing the performance. In this paper an energy management for hybrid electric vehicles combining load point shifting based on optimization with regeneration and boo...
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On the one hand electric vehicles are seen as a key technology for an environmentally friendly and carbon neutral mobility, while on the other hand they impose new challenges on today's electric power grid. This paper deals with a combination of energy and parking management for a parking area with electric vehicles to reduce the impact of EVs on t...
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In this paper an eco-driving assistance system for reducing the energy consumption in electric vehcles is proposed. An accurate electric vehicle model is developed and an optimal control problem is formulated. The optimal control problem is solved based on dynamic programming. As a result an energy-optimal speed profile is obtained. This speed prof...
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Methods and configurations controlling a converter having controllable power semiconductors, compare actual and target state values to obtain control difference values for a control unit producing setting voltage values. Control electronics provide control signals according to setting voltage values and transmit them to power semiconductors. The co...
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This paper presents an energy management system for smart grids with electric vehicles based on pricing. Units are modeled as price-elastic units, price-inelastic units and electric vehicles. Prices are negotiated by the price-elastic units and the electric vehicles such that the total cost of all units is minimized while meeting power, energy and...
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Networked embedded control systems (NECSs) with uncertain but interval-bounded time-varying computation and transmission delays are addressed in this paper. They are modeled as discrete-time switched linear systems with norm-bounded uncertainty. Considering an infinite-horizon quadratic cost function as a performance measure, a novel control and sc...
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This technical note addresses optimal control and scheduling (controlled switching) of discrete-time switched linear systems. A receding-horizon control and scheduling (RHCS) problem is introduced and solved by dynamic programming, leading to a combinatorial optimization problem with exponential complexity. By relaxed dynamic programming, complexit...
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Stability and control issues of systems with uncertain and time-varying sampling period and time-delay are addressed in this paper. These arise, e.g., in embedded or networked control applications where limited computation or communication resources have to be scheduled. The uncertain and time-varying sampling period and time delay are transformed...
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This paper addresses stability and control issues of systems with uncertain and time-varying sampling period and time-delay. These arise e.g. in embedded or networked control applications where limited computation or communication resources have to be scheduled. The uncertain and time-varying sampling period and time delay are transformed into poly...
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In this paper a novel concept for active vibration control of storage and retrieval machines is presented. The storage and retrieval machine is modeled based on the Bernoulli-Euler beam theory, yielding an infinite-dimensional model, and the assumed modes method in order to obtain a finite-dimensional model. The resulting model is of low order, a f...

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... Moreover, a chance-constrained MPC-CBF algorithm for collision avoidance of moving obstacles under uncertainty is described in [25]. A novel integration of stochastic MPC with situation-aware dynamic risk assessment is developed in [26]. ...
... This issue can be naturally addressed with MPC for tracking formulations as the desired steady-state is jointly optimized in the MPC. Corresponding results for different data-driven and learning-based models can be found in [22], [42], [76], [79], [80]. ...
... As a result, with a slow lateral-dynamics controller, the path-tracking controller must be even slower. In (Gabriel et al., 2022) a lateral dynamics controller was presented, which is able to stabilize the bicycle and track a desired yaw rate of the bicycle. The closed loop has a time constant of τ ≈ 1.5 s, therefore the outer control loop must have a time constant of at least 4.5 s. ...
... Dynamic investigation analysis of FG plates with porosities was presented by Bourada et al. (2019) on the basis of sinusoidal shear deformation theory. Among pioneering studies on the mechanics of beam/plate shell structures are references (Ellali et al. 2022b;Ebrahimi and Farazmandnia 2018;Bouazza et al. 2017;Kumar et al. 2021;Esen et al. 2022;Bouazza and Benseddiq 2015;Tian et al. 2023;Wang et al. 2022;Hellal et al. 2021;Yaylacı et al. 2021;Kolahchi et al. 2022). ...
... In recent years, sliding mode control (SMC) has attracted a lot of focus on account of its robust behavior to system uncertainties and disturbances [23,24]. The adaptive disturbance rejection control (ADRC) and SMC have been compared in [25], and SMC has been used for many multi-agent systems [26][27][28]. ...
... The calculation of the velocity of the ride was based on distance measurements by a single-pulse incremental encoder. Bicycle dynamics were estimated with a constrained extended Kalman filter based on state estimation for bicycles [64]. ...
... J. Knaup The proposed problem formulation has connections to the literature of robust control and set-based methods, in particular, in the case that the disturbances are assumed to be sampled from a uniform distribution. The robust control literature primarily considers unknown, but deterministic disturbances which may enter the dynamics both multiplicatively or additively, similar to the proposed problem [13]- [17]. The difference being that set-based methods upper bound the reachable set of the state for all possible disturbance realizations, requiring the disturbances to be drawn from bounded sets (i.e., distributions with bounded support such as the uniform distribution) [18]. ...
... For an optimal control problem of nonlinear systems, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation is introduced to solve such problems, which is essentially a backward numerical process. The HJB equation can cause the notorious "curse of dimensionality": the exponential growth of the number of parameters to be learned in contrast to the size of any compact encoding [2]. In recent years, the advent of adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) algorithms has provided an effective optimization method, owing to its capability of self-learning and adaptivity [3]. ...
... Due to the current climate change issues humanity is facing, bicycles are becoming an increasingly popular mean of transportation for emissions reduction purposes [1,2]. Studies and academic research on bicycles have been developed and published, e.g., comparing bicycles cost with cars [3] or dealing with the role of bicycles in urban traffic [4]. ...
... where the mapping DLQG : S + × S ++ × R × R × × R × → R × × R is well-defined and characterized by the relations (4)- (6). Since we are particularly interested in the manipulation of the cost signals, we write ( , ) = DLQG( , , ) for simplicity. ...