ABSTRACT
In recent years, there has been a great interest worldwide in the development of
Autonomous Ground Vehicle System (AGVS) technologies due to their potential in
civil and military applications.
This paper presents an effective algorithm to control the speed of a tracked vehicle.
This is part of a larger control system that converts a manual driving vehicle into a
remotely one. To achieve this goal an electronically controlled module is proposed,
realized and implemented on the fuel pedal. The necessary sensors and actuators
have been added to the conventional vehicle. These sensors and actuators have
been selected according to the design diagram of vehicle control system and system
calculations where the LabVIEW software is used as base environment for
implementation of the system controller as well as the development of the control
algorithm.
For investigation of the implemented fuel pedal control system, a dynamic model is
developed and the simulation results were found to agree to a great extent with the
real test results.