Everything about Trailer

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: TrailerA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Robust Trajectory Tracking Control of an Autonomous Tractor-Trailer Considering Model Parameter Uncertainties and DisturbancesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Trixie Belden and the Red Trailer MysteryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A robust stabilization problem of fuzzy control systems and its application to backing up control of a truck-trailerCited 621 times
5. Go sideways: Trailer (vehicle)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Dolly (trailer)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A robust stabilization problem of fuzzy control systems and its application to backing up control of a truck-trailer

  K. Tanaka, M. Sano · 1994 · IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems · 621 citations

• Adaptive fuzzy systems for backing up a truck-and-trailer

  S.-G. Kong, B. Kosko · 1992 · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks · 222 citations

• Heat release rates from heavy goods vehicle trailer fires in tunnels

  Haukur Ingason, Anders Lönnermark · 2005 · Fire Safety Journal · 213 citations

• A tabu search method for the truck and trailer routing problem

  I-Ming Chao · 2002 · Computers & Operations Research · 207 citations

• Dissipativity-Based Sampled-Data Fuzzy Control Design and its Application to Truck-Trailer System

  Zheng-Guang Wu, Peng Shi, Hongye Su · 2015 · IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems · 202 citations

• Trajectory generation for the N-trailer problem using Goursat normal form

  D. Tilbury, R.M. Murray, S. Shankar Sastry · 1995 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 192 citations

• The use of a dynamic truck–trailer drive-by system to monitor bridge damping

  Jennifer Keenahan, Eugene J OBrien, Patrick J McGetrick · 2013 · Structural Health Monitoring · 180 citations

• Hydrogen refueling station compression and storage optimization with tube-trailer deliveries

  Krishna Reddi, Amgad Elgowainy, Erika Sutherland · 2014 · International Journal of Hydrogen Energy · 167 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Robust Trajectory Tracking Control of an Autonomous Tractor-Trailer Considering Model Parameter Uncertainties and Disturbances

  En Lu, Jialin Xue, Tiaotiao Chen · 2023 · Agriculture · 123 citations

• Adaptive Constrained Formation-Tracking Control for a Tractor-Trailer Mobile Robot Team With Multiple Constraints

  Xu Jin, Shi-Lu Dai, Jianjun Liang · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 82 citations

• Quantized Sampled-Data Control Tactic for T-S Fuzzy NCS Under Stochastic Cyber-Attacks and Its Application to Truck-Trailer System

  Xiao Cai, Kaibo Shi, Kun She · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology · 73 citations

• A Review on Vehicle-Trailer State and Parameter Estimation

  Amin Habibnejad Korayem, Amir Khajepour, Baris Fidan · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems · 70 citations

• Improving path-tracking performance of an articulated tractor-trailer system using a non-linear kinematic model

  M. Murillo, G. Sánchez, N. Deniz · 2022 · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · 53 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Trixie Belden and the Red Trailer MysteryJulie Campbell, Julie Campbell · 1950
• TrailersM. M. Smith · 1982
• TrucksKen Robbins · 1999
• 📕Goods vehicle plating & testing standard lists. Trailers 1968 & 1969Great Britain. Ministry of Transport. · 1970
• CaravansAndrew Jenkinson · 1998
• The caravanner's handbookJohn Marchmont · 1991
• Airstream LivingBruce Littlefield · 2005
• Truck driver TomMonica Wellington · 2007

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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