Journal
IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages 2369-2379Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2017.2749002
Keywords
Directional stability; fuzzy scheduling; integrated braking and steering; optimal nonlinear control; stopping distance; vehicle control
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The safe hard braking of a turned vehicle requires short stopping distance while maintaining the vehicle in the path. To achieve the first aim, a wheel slip controller is designed to calculate the maximum braking force of each wheel according to the tire/road conditions. For the second aim, a new optimal multivariable controller for integrated active front steering and direct yaw moment control is analytically developed to control the vehicle directional stability directly. Since the required stabilizing external yaw moment has to be produced by reducing the maximum achievable braking forces of one side wheels, it leads to increase the stopping distance and should be kept as low as possible. In an effective way to manage the integrated control inputs, a fuzzy logic is defined to determine the weight factor of each control input in the integrated optimal control law. This logic is defined using the stability index obtained by the phase plane analysis of nonlinear vehicle model. Therefore, the proposed controller can be tuned automatically for different driving conditions. The simulation results carried out using a validated vehicle model demonstrate that the integrated control system has a better performance compared with stand-alone braking and steering systems to attain the desired purposes.
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