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Influence of active steering with adaptive control law on a metro rail vehicle wheel wear and dynamic performance

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An active steering bogie is designed to for yaw control of the wheel-sets to align the wheels with the track direction during curve negotiation. Existing control laws for active steering are developed by assuming new wheels and rails, and known vehicle and track layout, but do not include the vehicle speed as an input variable. As wheels wear and vehicle speed varies, such static control law may not be optimal. In this paper, the time-varying cant surplus/ deficiency information are adapted into a modified active steering control law. Multi-body simulation results show reduced wheel wear, and increase in passenger comfort, operating speed and wheel life due to the proposed adaptive steering control law.

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The research of Bhabasankar Samanta is funded by CSIR fellowship grant No. 09/081(1302)/2017-EMR-I. The authors acknowledge support from of Centre for Railway Research (CRR), IIT Kharagpur.

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    Smitirupa Pradhan, Bhabasankar Samanta & Arun Kumar Samantaray

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Smitirupa Pradhan received B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from BPUT, Bhubaneswar in 2004, and M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2012 and 2018, respectively. Her research interests are modeling, simulation, control and vehicle dynamics.

Bhabasankar Samanta received B.Tech. degree in mechanical engineering from BPUT, Bhubaneswar in 2012. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. degree at IIT Kharagpur since in 2016. His research interests are railway vehicle dynamics, rail-wheel interaction, fault diagnosis and signal processing.

Arun Kumar Samantaray received B.Sc. (Engg.) degree in mechanical engineering from CET, Bhubaneswar in 1989, and M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from IIT Kharagpur in 1991 and 1996, respectively. He did post-doctoral research at Polytech’ Lille from 2001 to 2004. Currently, he is a Full Professor at IIT Kharagpur. His research interests are systems and control, vehicle dynamics, robotics, and non-linear mechanics.

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Pradhan, S., Samanta, B. & Samantaray, A.K. Influence of active steering with adaptive control law on a metro rail vehicle wheel wear and dynamic performance. J Mech Sci Technol 34, 1415–1428 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-020-0304-3

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