This master´s thesis is focused on chosen dynamic parameters of a sport vehicle represented by student formula Dragon 7 and comparison of these parameters with conventional vehicles represented by two exemplars of ŠKODA Superb III. Driving tests used for the comparison are simulating the real driving situations from the roads in order to possibly use those for the road accident analysis in the future. All the measurements were taken under lower adhesion conditions which might help solving of the road accidents under such conditions in the future. There is also a description of vehicle driving systems and components which have an influence on the vehicle´s driving dynamics incorporated in the thesis.

This diploma thesis focuses on effects of active vehicle safety on the prevention of traffic accidents. In the introductory section, the term of active safety is defined and divided into four categories. In next four chapters, the particular elements of active safety are described in more detail and some selected elements are described in depth. Chapter seven includes a questionnaire; it enquires opinions of people about some of the elements of active safety. Practical road tests were conducted as part of this work. Theirs description and evaluation are in the last chapters.

n this work is processed a summary of selected driving parameters of vehicles, methods of measuring and use in the automotive industry or related branch especially. This work is focused on driving tests of vehicles and measurement driving parameters of vehicles. As part of this work was done measurements parameters of vehicles driving in various driving regimes and subsequent analyse of obtained data. The result of this work is determination methodology division driving regimes and evaluation the impact of driving regimes on to ride a car in a directional curve.

This diploma thesis deals with the possibilities of determining the influence of electronic stability systems on the chassis of the vehicle driving dynamics. In the introductory section is made theoretical analysis of road vehicle dynamics. Further description is made of some stabilization systems and situations and how to solve them by using these systems. Chapter 6.2.1 describes the methodology of practical experiment, which can determine influence of the stability system of the vehicle chassis on driving dynamics. The next chapter describes an experiment conducted and interpreted the measured values. The penultimate chapter is a simulation of this experiment using simulation software Virtual Crash. The last chapter is an evaluation of the experiment and compares the results with simulation programs using the same input conditions. The conclusion summarizes the results of this work.

Real-Time Rollover prevention of Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) is very paramount to its reliability and survivability mostly when operating on unknown and rough terrains like mines or other planets.Therefore this research presents the method of real-time rollover prevention of UGVs making use of Adaptive control techniques based on Recursive least Squares (RLS) estimation of unknown parameters, in order to enable the UGVs to adapt to unknown hush terrains thereby increasing their reliability and survivability. The adaptation is achieved by using indirect adaptive control technique where the controller parameters are computed in real time based on the online estimation of the plant’s (UGV) parameters (Rollover index and Roll Angle) and desired UGV’s performance in order to appropriately adjust the UGV speed and suspension actuators to counter-act the vehicle rollover. A great challenge of indirect adaptive control system is online parameter identification, where in this case the RLS based estimator is used to estimate the vehicles rollover index and Roll Angle from lateral acceleration measurements and height of the centre of gravity of the UGV. RLS is suitable for online parameter identification due to its nature of updating parameter estimate at each sample time. The performance of the adaptive control algorithms and techniques is evaluated using Matlab Simulink® system model with the UGV Model built using SimMechanics physical modelling platform and the whole system runs within Simulink environment to emulate real world application. The simulation results of the proposed adaptive control algorithm based on RLS estimation, show that the adaptive control algorithm does prevent or minimize the likely hood of vehicle rollover in real time. / Electrical and Mining Engineering / M. Tech. (Electrical Engineering)

This work is focused on the development of a thorough study about ISO standards focused on the vehicle dynamics, standardized tests of vehicle dynamics and measured variables that allow us to describe and model the behaviour of riding vehicles properly. In the Appendix A of the thesis, there is a list of all known ISO standards dealing with given topic. The standard ISO 15037-1 Road vehicles – Vehicle dynamics test methods, Part 1: General conditions for passenger cars is described in detail, including the forms for test reports and the Appendix C and D. In the thesis, there is also described a model of minimal needed measuring system that is still in good accordance with the standard ISO 15037-1 and fulfills all its requirements. Detailed description of all used sensors that are used to measure required variables is given, as well as a short description of all sensors that are used for measurement of other variables. After that, measurement abilities of the instrumentation of measuring system RIO used in ÚADI FSI Brno is compared and confronted with requirements given by the standard, to see, if all given criteria are properly fulfilled. Because of the fact that standard-given criteria are quite mild, while the equipment of the faculty is high-level technology, mostly made directly for measuring of dynamic parameters of the vehicles, including racing vehicles, the system is in full accordance with the standard ISO 15037-1.