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APOD Abstract for presentation (Poster or Podium) with a Paper in the Conference Proceedings

New and Emerging Technologies

1664904 - Automatic feedback cruising control of the AEROMOVEL automated people mover

Tuesday, June 18, 2024
8:55 AM - 9:20 AM ET
Room: 220
Abstract: Aeromovel consists of a new concept of steel-wheel steel-rail Automated People Mover (APM). The operation procedure depends on a propulsion system based upon the use of pneumatic power systems that insufflate pressured air inside a duct where a rodless piston connected to the vehicle is driven. The traditional configuration of the Aeromovel, the power system is designed and adjusted for operating with open loop control strategies. In recent years, Aeromovel application have significantly expanded, resulting in new challenges to be overcome, especially that associated with different trajectories that the vehicles have to be perform due to geometric restriction imposed by existent airports architectural configurations. Aiming at overcoming these difficulties, a novel automatic driving strategy, based on feedback control, is being developed for the vehicle cruising control. This article deals with this new challenge and the design of the feedback control algorithms that are being developed, including simulation results achieved by simulation performed with a suitable physical model of the system.

Learning Objectives:

Attendees can expect to learn the following from this session:
  • demonstrate that closed loop control strategies can be applied to the Aeromovel system
  • present results of simulations that collaborate to demonstrate the feasibility of using the proposed feedback control strategies
  • present the results of simulations that allow the evaluation of the performance of the feedback control strategies proposed under different adverse vehicle trajectories