The Future Race Car Driver.... Control ?

[Charles E Taylor]

I did search, but could find no reference to this interesting talk by Chris Gerdes.

http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_gerdes_t ... river.html

The driver as a Control Shaping.... Adaptive Control System?

I am curious. Does the driver "Drive the Car he has" or the "Car he Thinks he has" is the Driver an Active or Re-Active control system?

I have asked before elsewhere and would like to hear comments from here.



Chris Gerdes has an Interesting work space!




Charlie

[Jersey Tom]

I am curious. Does the driver "Drive the Car he has" or the "Car he Thinks he has" is the Driver an Active or Re-Active control system?

A control system can have both feed-forward and feed-back components operating together.

[Greg Locock]

At 6/10 a driver is pretty much open loop, with some feedback*. When he turns it up to 11/10 then I imagine things change rather a lot.

*This is why people hate rear axle roll steer. They dial up the right amount of SWA for a given corner and then the car lurches into the corner and they have to adjust the SWA again.