Mechanical Engineering
Vol. 34 No. 06 (2019): Proceedings of the Faculty of Technical Sciences
OPTIMAL CONTROL METHODS FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF RACE CAR PERFORMANCE
Abstract
An optimal control lap time simulation method is developed. The vehicle model used is a kinematic single track model. The problem is solved with the direct collocation method. An example lap time minimisation study with simultaneous parameter optmization is performed..
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