Extremum seeking control for truck drag reduction

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Papageorgiou, Georgios
Barden, Jason
Whidborne, James F.
Garry, Kevin P.

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Georgios Papageorgiou, Jason Barden, James F. Whidborne and Kevin P. Garry. Extremum seeking control for truck drag reduction. Proceedings of the 2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL 2018), 5-7 September, Sheffield

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The aerodynamic drag on a heavy truck tractor and semi-trailer combination can be reduced by means of a wind deflector installed on the roof of the tractor cab. The drag reduction is dependent upon the height and shape of the deflector. A variable height deflector has been constructed and tested in a wind-tunnel and on-road. In this paper, an extremum-seeking control scheme is proposed to adjust on-line the deflector height to minimize the aerodynamic drag. The effectiveness of the scheme is evaluated by simulation and its practicality is evaluated.

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