Hybrid attitude control in steering maneuver using ARC Hil setup

This paper presents the design of an active roll controller for a vehicle and an experimental study using an electric actuating roll control system. Firstly, based on a three degrees of freedom linear vehicle model, the controller is designed using lateral acceleration and rollrate feedback. In order to investigate the feasibility of an active control system, experimental work is carried out using a hardware-in-the-loop (Hil) setup which has been constructed using the devised electric actuating system and the full vehicle model including tire characteristics. The performance is evaluated by an experiment using the Hil setup in which steering maneuvers are carried out. Finally, in order to enhance the control performance in a transient region, the hybrid control strategy is proposed and evaluated.     

Robust adaptive backstepping sliding mode control for motion mode decoupling of two‐axle vehicles with active kinetic dynamic suspension systems

A mode decoupling control strategy is proposed for the active Kinetic Dynamic Suspension Systems (KDSS) with electrohydrostatic actuator (EHA) to improve the roll and warp mode performances. A matrix transfer method is employed to derive the modes of body and wheel station motions for full vehicle with active KDSS. The additional mode stiffness produced by the active KDSS is obtained and quantitatively described with the typical physical parameters. A new hierarchical feedback control strategy is proposed for the active KDSS to improve the roll and warp motion performances and simultaneously accounting for nonlinear dynamics of the actuators with hydraulic uncertainties. H∞ static output‐feedback control is employed to obtain the desirable mode forces, and a new projection‐based adaptive backstepping sliding mode tracking controller is designed for EHA to deal with address the nonlinearity and parameters uncertainty. This controller is used to realize the desirable pressure difference of EHA required from the target mode forces. Numerical simulations are presented to compare the roll and warp performances between the active KDSS, conventional spring‐damper suspension, and suspension with antiroll bar under typical excitation conditions. The evaluation indices are normalized and compared with radar chart. The obtained results illustrate that the proposed active KDSS with proposed controller does not produce additional warp motion for vehicle body, and has achieved more reasonable tire force distribution among wheel stations, the roll stability, road holding, and significantly improved ride comfort simultaneously.     

Study on vehicle active suspension system control method based on homogeneous domination approach

In an active suspension system, there is an actuator mounted between the sprung mass and the unsprung mass to change the stiffness and damp of the suspension for ride comfort and handling stability. Because the active suspension control system is an under‐actuated system, the control problem of the active suspension is challenging but interesting. In order to solve this issue, a novel vehicle active suspension control method based on homogeneous domination approach is proposed in this paper. Firstly, a groundhook control model is constructed according to the general active suspension dynamic model. In order to deal with the additional terms of the control system which are harmful for convergence, a homogeneous domination approach is used to construct an active suspension homogeneous controller (ASHC). A useful technical theorem is proposed in the stability analysis to show that the proposed ASHC can guarantee the states of the active suspension system being stabilized. Compared with the SMC method and without any controller (passive suspension), the simulation results indicate that the proposed ASHC is effective.     

基于电流变阻尼器的履带式车辆悬架振动控制

提出一种基于电流变阻尼器的半主动悬架系统,建立了某履带式车辆悬架的1/4车体动力学模型,在此基础上给出了悬架系统的运动方程和状态方程,分析了某种剪切模式电流变阻尼器的阻尼力并作为悬架系统半主动控制的制动器.将随机最优控制理论应用到车辆悬架的控制中,以车身加速度、悬架动行程和轮胎动位移的加权二次型最小为控制性能指标,设计了线性二次型高斯(LQG)控制器,通过被动悬架与LQG控制悬架的仿真比较,在轮胎动位移基本相同的情况下,LQG控制能有效的降低车身加速度,充分利用悬架的工作空间,提高车辆的舒适性和安全性.     

Controller design for vehicle stability enhancement

A Vehicle Dynamics Control (VDC) system is developed for tracking desired vehicle behavior. The cascade structure of control system consists of yaw moment major controller and wheel slip minor controller. The Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) theory is exploited for yaw moment controller and the sliding mode theory is applied for wheel slip controller design. The use of yaw moment control was investigated by regulating the wheel slip ratio for improving handling and stability of vehicle. The performance of the control system is evaluated under various emergency maneuvers and road conditions through pure computer simulations and Hardware In-the-Loop Simulation (HILS) system. The results indicate the proposed system can significantly improve vehicle stability for active safety.     

Path tracking controller design of four wheel independent steering automatic guided vehicle

This paper presents a new type of four wheel independent steering automatic guided vehicle (4WIS-AGV) for carrying heavy baggage and proposes a controller for the 4WIS-AGV to track reference trajectories. To do this task, the followings are done. Firstly, a 4WIS-AGV is designed and manufactured for experimental purpose. Secondly, a kinematic modeling for the 4WIS-AGV is introduced based on a single track vehicle model. Thirdly, based on the modeling, a controller is designed based on Backstepping method for the 4WIS-AGV to track reference trajectories. Fourthly, a control system is developed using industrial PC and AVR ATmega128 microcontrollers to implement the designed controller. Finally, simulations and experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness and performances of the proposed controller in tracking two types of reference trajectories: a trajectory with sharp edges for parallel steering maneuver and a circular trajectory for zero-sideslip maneuver. The results show that the proposed controller can make the 4WIS-AGV track the trajectory with sharp edges and the circular trajectory very well.     

车辆主动转向系统的鲁棒控制器设计研究

本文将H2/H∞鲁棒控制理论应用于电动助力转向系统的控制策略研究,在建立前轮转向理想跟踪模型基础上,提出一种基于H2/H∞模型跟踪技术的主动转向控制方法,并对设计的控制器进行仿真分析与对比.通过仿真分析,从理论上验证基于H2/H∞跟踪控制理论的转向控制器可以适用于汽车的EPS转向系统,能很好地跟随理想车辆转向模型,有利于提高车辆的主动安全和稳定性.     

Hazard-evaluation-oriented Moving Horizon Parallel Steering Control for Driver-Automation Collaboration During Automated Driving

Prompted by emerging developments in connected and automated vehicles, parallel steering control, one aspect of parallel driving, has become highly important for intelligent vehicles for easing the burden and ensuring the safety of human drivers. This paper presents a parallel steering control framework for an intelligent vehicle using moving horizon optimization. The framework considers lateral stability, collision avoidance and actuator saturation and describes them as constraints, which can blend the operation of a human driver and a parallel steering controller effectively. Moreover, the road hazard and the steering operation error are employed to evaluate the operational hazardous of an intelligent vehicle. Under the hazard evaluation, the intelligent vehicle will be mainly operated by the human driver when the vehicle operates in a safe and stable manner. The automated steering driving objective will play an active role and regulate the steering operations of the intelligent vehicle based on the hazard evaluation. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed hazard-evaluation-oriented moving horizon parallel steering control approach, various validations are conducted, and the results are compared with a parallel steering scheme that does not consider automated driving situations. The results illustrate that the proposed parallel steering controller achieves acceptable performance under both conventional conditions and hazardous conditions.      

车辆主动悬架模糊控制器的设计及其仿真分析

该文通过车辆悬架系统和路面输入模型的建立，应用模糊逻辑控制理论，进行了车辆主动悬架模糊控制器的设计，并在Matlab/Sirmulink环境中对此模糊控制器进行了仿真，把它与传统的被动悬架和用LQG控制器控制的主动悬架作了比较及性能分析，仿真结果证明了相对于其它两种悬架来说，具有模糊控制器作用的主动悬架在降低车身加速度、改善车辆的行驶平顺性和乘坐舒适性上有显著的效果。     

汽车转向/防抱死制动系统的无模型协同控制

汽车制动系统和转向系统相互之间存在着复杂的耦合关系,会对汽车行驶安全性和操纵稳定性造成极大的影响。为了动态补偿这种干扰影响,以无模型控制方法设计汽车整车防抱死制动控制器、整车前轮主动转向控制器及转向系统和制动系统的协同控制器,从理论上证明了设计的无模型控制系统的稳定性。最后,在MATLAB/Simulink平台上搭建了车辆模型和控制器,进行汽车转向制动控制的动态性能仿真。仿真结果表明其解决了汽车两个系统的耦合干扰,提高了汽车制动效能和转向稳定性。     

Robust Control System Design for an Uncertain Nonlinear System Using Minimax LQG Design Method

A systematic approach to design a nonlinear controller using minimax linear quadratic Gaussian regulator (LQG) control is proposed for a class of multi‐input multi‐output nonlinear uncertain systems. In this approach, a robust feedback linearization method and a notion of uncertain diffeomorphism are used to obtain an uncertain linearized model for the corresponding uncertain nonlinear system. A robust minimax LQG controller is then proposed for reference command tracking and stabilization of the nonlinear system in the presence of uncertain parameters. The uncertainties are assumed to satisfy a certain integral quadratic constraint condition. In this method, conventional feedback linearization is used to cancel nominal nonlinear terms and the uncertain nonlinear terms are linearized in a robust way. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, a minimax LQG‐based robust controller is designed for a nonlinear uncertain model of an air‐breathing hypersonic flight vehicle (AHFV) with flexibility and input coupling. Here, the problem of constructing a guaranteed cost controller which minimizes a guaranteed cost bound has been considered and the tracking of velocity and altitude is achieved under inertial and aerodynamic uncertainties.     

车辆主动悬架优化设计与仿真分析

基于混合粒子群优化（Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization,HPSO）算法设计了一种以降低车身加速度（BA）,悬架动行程（SWS）和轮胎动位移（DTD）为目标的车辆主动悬架线性最优控制器。建立了2自由度1/4车辆主动悬架动力学模型,运用混合粒子群优化算法对LQG控制器的权值矩阵进行优化求解,在Matlab/Simulink环境下,对不同工况下的车辆悬架进行了仿真分析。仿真结果表明,经过混合粒子群算法优化后的主动悬架在行驶平顺性和操纵稳定性上有所改善,并且优化后主动悬架性能指标BA,SWS和DTD的均方根值最大分别减少了22.56%,44.27%和19.75%。     

基于模糊控制策略的车辆主动悬架研究

建立了车辆整车7自由度模型的主动悬架控制的系统状态方程模型,设计了两种模糊控制策略,方法一针对整车模型,采用一种控制方法,方法二针对整车模型的运动方式,设计不同的模糊控制器,垂直振动模糊控制器,俯仰振动模糊控制器,侧倾振动模糊控制器和逻辑控制器,仿真结果表明,所设计的模糊控制器对提高车辆的舒适性与操纵稳定性有较好的效果.     

考虑车辆横向主动安全的智能驾驶员模型

结合智能车面临的横向安全问题, 设计了一种具有横向安全性的智能驾驶员模型. 该系统由转向控制、速度控制和决策规划三个模块组成. 该系统的主要作用包括: 一是通过在转向控制中加入主要约束提高车辆在转向过程中的横向稳定性, 减小车辆发生侧滑、侧倾、侧偏等风险; 二是在换道场景下, 决策规划单元合理分析交通环境中的车间距并计算出驶入临近车道的速度和轨迹, 使智能车实现安全换道. CarSim/Simulink仿真结果表明, 该智能驾驶员系统提高了车辆行驶的横向安全性.     

Novel Optimal Design Approach for Output‐Feedback H∞ Control of Vehicle Active Seat‐Suspension System

In this paper, the output‐feedback control problem of a vehicle active seat‐suspension system is investigated. A novel optimal design approach for an output‐feedback H_∞ controller is proposed. The main objective of the controller is to minimize the seat vertical acceleration to improve vehicle ride comfort. First, the human body and the seat are considered in the modeling of a vehicle active suspension system, which makes the model more precise. Other constraints, such as tire deflection, suspension deflection and actuator saturation, are also considered. Then the output‐feedback control strategy is adopted since some state variables, such as body acceleration and body deflection, are unavailable. A concise and effective approach for an output‐feedback H_∞ optimal control is presented. The desired controller is obtained by solving the corresponding linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) and by the calculation of equations proposed in this paper. Finally, a numerical example is presented to show the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed controller design approach.     

Mobile robot tracking of pre-planned paths

A method of mobile robot steering control around pre-planned paths is presented. The system can maneuver accurately at low speeds by deriving control parameters as functions of vehicle velocity. The peak demand on the steering controller is reduced, by distributing steering curvature changes evenly over the extent of a maneuver.     

Yaw stability control of articulated frame off-highway vehicles via displacement controlled steer-by-wire

Off-highway vehicles have not received the same level of scrutiny that their on-highway counterparts did relative to safety, comfort, fuel economy, and automation. Over the past few decades, various active chassis safety control systems, architectures, and schemes have been researched and developed to improve the stability and handling of on-highway vehicles, including articulated vehicles such as tractor–trailer applications. In this paper, the authors investigate a yaw stability control system for articulated frame steering off-highway vehicles via novel steer-by-wire technology that they have recently developed. A high-fidelity vehicle dynamics model is derived while keeping the yaw rate decoupled from the lateral acceleration, in order to separate the primary path-following task (driver) from the secondary disturbance–attenuation task (controller). The control algorithm is then designed such that the two tasks do not hamper one another, and that the automatic controller is quickly activated for a short period of time to counteract instabilities, and then smoothly relinquishes control back to the human operator. Simulation and experimental testing results are obtained to validate the vehicle dynamics model, the control algorithm design, and the new system's efficacy in counteracting yaw instabilities on low-friction surfaces using standard vehicle dynamic maneuvers.     

Vehicle Dynamics Modeling and Electronic Stability Program/ Active Front Steering Sliding Mode Integrated Control

Chassis integrated control can significantly improve vehicle handling stability and comfort. Because of the complexity of the problem, it has attracted significant research attention. We built a vehicle nonlinear dynamic model with multi‐degree freedom, including body movement, wheel movement, and electronically controlled hydraulic power steering system. We compared the magic formula tire model, Dugoff tire model, brush tire model, and LuGre dynamic friction tire model and steady model. The precision of the model was verified by a comparison between simulation results and the real vehicle test results. Then, based on the vehicle dynamics model, an AFS (active front steering) controller was designed based on sliding mode variable structure control, and an AFS and ESP (electronic stability program) integrated coordination controller was proposed. Finally, based on the nonlinear tire model and multi‐DOF (degree of freedom) vehicle model, sinusoidal and step steering angle input simulation analysis was proposed on different road friction coefficients. The results show that the vehicle has better response characteristics with coordinated control strategy when compared with AFS and ESP only control. The evidence suggests that the proposed integrated control system in this paper can improve vehicle stability and safety.     

非同轴两轮机器人自平衡与转向闭环控制

针对车速、车身侧倾角和前轮转角变化较大工况下的非同轴两轮机器人在基于前轮转角的自平衡控制中,因动力学模型准确性对自平衡控制带来的影响,设计了基于RBF神经网络模糊滑模控制的自平衡控制器,利用RBF神经网络的逼近特性,对动力学模型中非线性时变的不确定部分进行自适应逼近,从而提高动力学模型的准确性,并借助模糊规则削弱滑模控制中产生的系统抖振;以及因前轮转角用于自平衡控制中难以实现转向闭环控制,建立了基于纯跟踪法的轨迹跟踪控制器,并设计利用车身平衡时车身侧倾角与前轮转角的耦合关系,将转向闭环控制中的目标前轮转角替换为目标车身侧倾角,从而将自平衡控制器与轨迹跟踪控制器相结合,在保证车身平衡行驶的前提下,实现带有轨迹跟踪的转向闭环控制。实验结果表明,凭借动力学模型的较高准确性,RBF神经网络模糊滑模自平衡控制器具有鲁棒性好、超调量低和响应迅速的优点,并且利用车身平衡后车身侧倾角与前轮转角耦合关系,实现转向闭环控制是可行的,具有良好的轨迹跟踪效果。