Research on Side Slip Angle Dynamic Boundary Control for Vehicle Stability Control Considering the Impact of Road Surface

With the introduction and development of Anti-lock Braking System in modern vehicles, remarkable progress in brake efficiency and brake stability has been achieved. However, it is a significant challenge to deal with the control law in certain critical situations, especially on split-μ road surface. In low vehicle velocity, as some standards and regulations specified, the stability in such situation is comparably easy to be achieved. But with the vehicle velocity increasing, the driver behavior contributes a large impact on the trajectory maintenance and easily causes sympathetic vibration of the vehicle because of the unexpected synchronization between the driver input and control law output, which could be very dangerous. This paper presents the research work in vehicle stability control when Anti-lock Braking System is activated at split-μ road surface. The principal contribution of this work is that the driver behavior is taken into account and the control law is tuned to adapt to this situation, which effectively maintains the stability of the vehicle without compromising the brake efficiency.

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Adaptive Vehicle Stability Control With Optimal Tire Force Allocation

Volume 11: Transportation Systems ◽

10.1115/imece2012-87560 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Mustafa Ali Arat ◽

Kanwar Bharat Singh ◽

Saied Taheri

Keyword(s):

Stability Control ◽

Crash Risk ◽

Slip Angle ◽

Vehicle Stability ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Tire Force ◽

Vehicle Stability Control ◽

Saturation Region ◽

Road Friction ◽

Tire Forces

Vehicle stability control systems have been receiving increasing attention, especially over the past decade, owing to the advances in on-board electronics that enables successful implementation of complex algorithms. Another major reason for their increasing popularity lies in their effectiveness. Considering the studies that expose supporting results for reducing crash risk or fatality, organizations such as E.U. and NHTSA are taking steps to mandate the use of such safety systems on vehicles. The current technology has advanced in many aspects, and undoubtedly has improved vehicle stability as mentioned above; however there are still many areas of potential improvements. Especially being able to utilize information about tire-vehicle states (tire forces, tire-slip angle, and tire-road friction) would be significant due to the key role tires play in providing directional stability and control. This paper presents an adaptive vehicle stability controller that makes use of tire force and slip-angle information from an online tire monitoring system. Solving the optimality problem for the tire force allocation ensures that the control system does not push the tires into the saturation region where neither the driver nor the controller commands are implemented properly. The proposed control algorithm is implemented using MATLAB/CarSim® software packages. The performance of the system is evaluated under an evasive double lane change maneuver on high and low friction surfaces. The results indicate that the system can successfully stabilize the vehicle as well as adapting to the changes in surface conditions.

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