scholarly journals A cooperative control strategy for yaw rate and sideslip angle control combining torque vectoring with rear wheel steering

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
M. Vignati ◽  
E. Sabbioni
2014 ◽  
Vol 709 ◽  
pp. 267-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Sheng Tan ◽  
Huan Shen ◽  
Man Hong Huang ◽  
Si Ran Zhang

In order to obtain the ideal steering performance, an active rear wheel steering (ARS) controller, based on the variable transmission ratio control strategy, is developed in this paper. ARS controller using sliding mode technique is designed to follow the desired yaw rate which is calculated by the ideal variable transmission ratio. Simulation result shows that, the proposed control strategy both obtains desired steering performance and provides the obvious benefits for the human driver.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 8143
Author(s):  
Junnian Wang ◽  
Siwen Lv ◽  
Nana Sun ◽  
Shoulin Gao ◽  
Wen Sun ◽  
...  

The anxiety of driving range and inconvenience of battery recharging has placed high requirements on the energy efficiency of electric vehicles. To reduce driving-wheel slip energy consumption while cornering, a torque vectoring control strategy for a rear-wheel independent-drive (RWID) electric vehicle is proposed. First, the longitudinal linear stiffness of each driving wheel is estimated by using the approach of recursive least squares. Then, an initial differential torque is calculated for reducing their overall tire slippage energy dissipation. However, before the differential torque is applied to the two side of driving wheels, an acceleration slip regulation (ASR) is introduced into the overall control strategy to avoid entering into the tire adhesion saturation region resulting in excessive slip. Finally, the simulations of typical manoeuvring conditions are performed to verify the veracity of the estimated tire longitudinal linear stiffness and effectiveness of the torque vectoring control strategy. As a result, the proposed torque vectoring control leads to the largest reduction of around 17% slip power consumption for the situations carried out above.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janaína R. Amaral ◽  
Harald Göllinger ◽  
Thiago A. Fiorentin

This paper presents a preliminary study on the use of reinforcement learning to control the torque vectoring of a small rear wheel driven electric race car in order to improve vehicle handling and vehicle stability. The reinforcement learning algorithm used is Neural Fitted Q Iteration and the sampling of experiences is based on simulations of the vehicle behavior using the software CarMaker. The cost function is based on the position of the states on the phase-plane of sideslip angle and sideslip angular velocity. The resulting controller is able to improve the vehicle handling and stability with a significant reduction in vehicle sideslip angle.


2014 ◽  
Vol 701-702 ◽  
pp. 799-802
Author(s):  
Ping Xia Zhang ◽  
Li Gao ◽  
Yong Qiang Zhu

Because there are several axles in multi-axle vehicle, steering controlling is very complex. It is proposed to use the front wheel steering angle and D as input controlling variables, and to realize centroid sideslip angle control. A five-axle vehicle model was built with ADAMS software, and the control strategy was built with Simulink software. The steering angle step response simulations were processed, such as only font wheels steering, fixed D value steering, and different sideslip angle control strategy. It is found that for only font wheels steering test, variable sideslip angle control strategy could make the overshoot of yaw rate reduce from 98% to 10%, convergence time reduce to 57%.


Electronics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Vignati ◽  
Edoardo Sabbioni ◽  
Federico Cheli

When dealing with electric vehicles, different powertrain layouts can be exploited. Among them, the most interesting one in terms of vehicle lateral dynamics is represented by the one with independent electric motors: two or four electric motors. This allows torque-vectoring control strategies to be applied for increasing vehicle lateral performance and stability. In this paper, a novel control strategy based on torque-vectoring is used to design a drifting control that helps the driver in controlling the vehicle in such a condition. Drift is a particular cornering condition in which high values of sideslip angle are obtained and maintained during the turn. The controller is applied to a rear-wheel drive race car prototype with two independent electric motors on the rear axle. The controller relies only on lateral acceleration, yaw rate, and vehicle speed measurement. This makes it independent from state estimators, which can affect its performance and robustness.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 1526
Author(s):  
Fengjiao Zhang ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Jingyu Hu ◽  
Guodong Yin ◽  
Song Chen ◽  
...  

The performance of vehicle active safety systems relies on accurate vehicle state information. Estimation of vehicle state based on onboard sensors has been popular in research due to technical and cost constraints. Although many experts and scholars have made a lot of research efforts for vehicle state estimation, studies that simultaneously consider the effects of noise uncertainty and model parameter perturbation have rarely been reported. In this paper, a comprehensive scheme using dual Extended H-infinity Kalman Filter (EH∞KF) is proposed to estimate vehicle speed, yaw rate, and sideslip angle. A three-degree-of-freedom vehicle dynamics model is first established. Based on the model, the first EH∞KF estimator is used to identify the mass of the vehicle. Simultaneously, the second EH∞KF estimator uses the result of the first estimator to predict the vehicle speed, yaw rate, and sideslip angle. Finally, simulation tests are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The test results indicate that the proposed method has higher estimation accuracy than the extended Kalman filter.


Author(s):  
Francesco Braghin ◽  
Edoardo Sabbioni ◽  
Gabriele Sironi ◽  
Michele Vignati

In last decades hybrid and electric vehicles have been one of the main object of study for automotive industry. Among the different layout of the electric power-train, four in-wheel motors appear to be one of the most attractive. This configuration in fact has several advantages in terms of inner room increase and mass distribution. Furthermore the possibility of independently distribute braking and driving torques on the wheels allows to generate a yaw moment able to improve vehicle handling (torque vectoring). In this paper a torque vectoring control strategy for an electric vehicle with four in-wheel motors is presented. The control strategy is constituted of a steady-state contribution to enhance vehicle handling performances and a transient contribution to increase vehicle lateral stability during limit manoeuvres. Performances of the control logic are evaluated by means of numerical simulations of open and closed loop manoeuvres. Robustness to friction coefficient changes is analysed.


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