Month: November 2025

Participants from the Vehicle Dynamics Group at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, completed a one-month secondment with Dr. Valentin Ivanov and Mr. Zhenqian Li in the Smart Vehicle Systems group, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany.

During this secondment, participants established interfacing methods for a prototype multi-actuated drive-by-wire electric vehicle (PIXKIT3) to facilitate control of the steering, braking, and driving systems. A MATLAB/Simulink Simscape model of the vehicle was developed to support future control system and algorithm testing. Additionally, a camera-based side-slip angle sensor and an IMU-based vehicle attitude sensor were developed and subsequently tested on the vehicle.

Dr Cor-Jacques Kat from the Vehicle Dynamics Group at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, recently completed a one-month secondment with Dr Barys Shyrokau in the Section of Intelligent Vehicles, Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

During this secondment, experiments were conducted on the Delft Advanced Vehicle Simulator (DAVSi) with human participants. The aim of the tests was to investigate how signal sequencing influences the applicability of available difference thresholds, which are intended to be used in the control strategies.

During this secondment Dr Kat also had a one-day visit to another project partner – Tenneco in Sint-Truiden, Belgium.