Evaluation and testing of electronic stability control systems in automotive vehicles, in the real
environment confronts with cost and safety concerns leading to an overdue prototyping of the
actual system. This work addressees the implementation of a scaled test bed for
automotive experiments, based on 1:5 scaled model car especially designed for rapid system
prototyping. A single gyroscope electronic stability control scheme has been formatted, post -
process simulated and evaluated on the test bed. The improvement on the vehicle’s stability is
noticeable.
The custom developed model car acting as experimental platform is fully equipped with sensors,
actuators, a controller to collect data and a Linux based computer system to process data. By using
a scaled model car we introduce realistic simulation dynamics and disturbances. The reference
model for stabilization is based upon the dynamics of the Bicycle Model. The Stability Control
System issues commands to individual vehicle’s brakes in order to reduce the error between the
actual and desired response of the car

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Microprocessor and Hardware Lab.

Open Source Experimental Platform for Automotive Experiments

Diomidis Katzourakis, Student Member, IEEE
Yannis Papaefstathiou, Member, IEEE
Michalis Lagoudakis, Member, IEEE

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