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Robust Yaw Moment Control for Vehicle Handling and Stability

Journal Article
2009-01-0578
ISSN: 1946-3995, e-ISSN: 1946-4002
Published April 20, 2009 by SAE International in United States
Robust Yaw Moment Control for Vehicle Handling and Stability
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Citation: Du, H., Zhang, N., and Smith, W., "Robust Yaw Moment Control for Vehicle Handling and Stability," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars – Mech. Syst. 2(1):772-779, 2009, https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-0578.
Language: English

Abstract:

This paper presents a robust controller design method for improving vehicle lateral stability and handling performance. In particular, the practical load variation will be taken into account in the controller synthesis process such that the controller can keep the vehicle lateral stability and handling performance regardless of the load variation. Based on a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) lateral dynamics model, a model-based Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy control strategy is applied to design such a controller and the sufficient conditions for designing such a controller are given in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) which can be solved efficiently using currently available numerical software. Numerical simulations are used to validate the effectiveness of the proposed control approach.