Chassis Coordinated Control for Full X-by-Wire Vehicles-A Review

An X-by-wire chassis can improve the kinematic characteristics of human-vehicle closed-loop system and thus active safety especially under emergency scenarios via enabling chassis coordinated control.This paper aims to provide a complete and systematic survey on chassis coordinated control methods for full X-by-wire vehicles,with the primary goal of summarizing recent reserch advancements and stimulating innovative thoughts.Driving condition identification including driver’s operation intention,critical vehicle states and road adhesion condition and integrated control of X-by-wire chassis subsystems constitute the main framework of a chassis coordinated control scheme.Under steering and braking maneuvers,different driving condition identification methods are described in this paper.These are the trigger conditions and the basis for the implementation of chassis coordinated control.For the vehicles equipped with steering-by-wire,braking-by-wire and/or wire-controlled-suspension systems,state-of-the-art chassis coordinated control methods are reviewed including the coordination of any two or three chassis subsystems.Finally,the development trends are discussed.

A modified structure internal model robust control method for the integration of active front steering and direct yaw moment control

Taking into account the nonlinearity of vehicle dynamics and the variations of vehicle parameters,the integrated control strategy for active front steering(AFS)and direct yaw control(DYC)that can maintain the performance and robustness is a key issue to be researched.Currently,the H∞method is widely applied to the integrated control of chassis dynamics,but it always sacrifices the performance in order to enhance the stability.The modified structure internal model robust control(MSIMC)obtained by modifying internal model control(IMC)structure is proposed for the integrated control of AFS and DYC to surmount the conflict between performance and robustness.Double lane change(DLC)simulation is developed to compare the performance and the stability of the MSIMC strategy,the PID controller based on the reference vehicle model and the H∞controller.Simulation results show that the PID controller may oscillate and go into instability in severe driving conditions because of large variations of tire parameters,the H∞controller sacrifices the performance in order to enhance the stability,and only the MSIMC controller can both ensure the robustness and the high performance of the integrated control of AFS and DYC.