Control of Variable-Geometry Vehicle Suspensions

Balázs Németh has been a senior research fellow of the Systems and Control Laboratory (SCL) in the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI) since 2007. He received his Ph.D. degree in Transportation Sciences from Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in 2013. He is an honorary associate professor of BME, and he lectures in B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. courses on control system theory and vehicle control. He has published 102 journal papers, 4 books, and 107 papers in conference proceedings. His main research areas are analysis and synthesis of autonomous vehicle control systems, energy-optimal control of road vehicles, integration of learning and control methods, and ethics of autonomous vehicle systems.

Péter Gáspár received both M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in 1985 and 1997, respectively, and his D.Sc. degree in Control from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) in 2007. Since 2022 he has been a full member of the MTA. He is head of the Systems and Control Laboratory (SCL) in the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI) and is also a full professor at the Department of Control for Transportation and Vehicle Systems, BME. He is a member of IFAC Technical Committees on both Automotive Control and Transportation Systems. He is a co-author of 4 monographs on systems and control theory and vehicle control and the co-author of 7 university textbooks. He has published 226 journal papers, 5 book chapters, and 310 papers in conference proceedings with more than 2250 citations. His research interests include linear and nonlinear systems, robust control, system identification, and machine learning methods. His research and industrial works have involved mechanical systems, vehicle structures, and vehicle dynamics and control.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I Variable Geometry Suspension for Wheel Tilting Control.- Chapter 2:  LPV-based modeling of variable geometry suspension.- Chapter 3: LPV-based control of variable geometry suspension.- Chapter 4: SOS-based modeling, analysis and control.- Part II Independent Steering with Variable Geometry Suspension.- Chapter 5: Modeling variable geometry suspension system.- Chapter 6: Hierarchical control design method for vehicle suspensions.- Chapter 7: Coordinated control strategy for variable geometry suspension.- Chapter 8: Control implementation on suspension testbed.- Part III Guaranteed Suspension Control with Learning Methods.- Chapter 9: Data-driven framework for variable geometry suspension control.- Chapter 10: Guaranteeing performance requirements for suspensions via robust LPV framework.- Chapter 11: Control design for Variable Geometry Suspension with learning methods.- Index.