Ground vehicle stability controllers can be significantly improved through knowledge of the vehicle’s tire-ground normal force. This work demonstrates a proof-of-concept study of such an estimator. The method involves work from two previous methods that perform real-time estimation of the vehicle’s mass and horizontal CG position. Inclusion of the previous work provides the foundation for a comprehensive method that estimates the tire-ground normal load of a ground vehicle that is invariant with respect to the vehicle parameters.
Multi-actuated ground vehicle tyre force estimation through a coupled 1D simulation-estimation framework
