Advancement of Vehicle Dynamics Control with Monitoring the Tire Rolling Environment

One of the most important challenges for electronic stability control (ESC) systems is the identification and monitoring of tire rolling environment, especially actual tire-road friction parameters. The presented research considers an advanced variant of the ESC system deducing the mentioned factors based on intelligent methods as fuzzy sets.

The paper includes:

• Overview of key issues in prototyping the algorithms of Electronic Stability Control.
• Case study for vehicle model.
• Procedures for monitoring of tire rolling environment: theoretical backgrounds, computing methods, fuzzy input and output variables, fuzzy inference systems, interface with ESC algorithm.
• Case study for ESC control algorithm.
• Examples of simulation using Hardware-in-the-Loop procedures.

The proposed approach can be widely used for the next-generation of ESC devices having the close integration with Intelligent Transport Systems.