Vehicle stability control system for enhancing steerabilty,lateral stability,and roll stability

The Vehicle stability control system is an active safety system designed to prevent accidents from occurring and to stabilize dynamic maneuvers of a vehicle by generating an artificial yaw moment using differential brakes. In this paper, in order to enhance vehicle steerability, lateral stability, and roll stability, each reference yaw rate is designed and combined into a target yaw rate depending on the driving situation. A yaw rate controller is designed to track the target yaw rate based on sliding mode control theory. To generate the total yaw moment required from the proposed yaw rate controller, each brake pressure is properly distributed with effective control wheel decision. Estimators are developed to identify the roll angle and body sideslip angle of a vehicle based on the simplified roll dynamics model and parameter adaptation approach. The performance of the proposed vehicle stability control system and estimation algorithms is verified with simulation results and experimental results.     

汽车行驶状态参数的估计

介绍Sage-Husa自适应卡尔曼滤波算法和滤波估计流程,建立二自由度汽车模型,在模型中加入系统噪声和测量噪声,建立系统状态方程和观测方程。利用自适应卡尔曼滤波算法,对汽车质心侧偏角和横摆角速度进行估计,并进行转向盘转角正弦输入仿真分析,仿真结果表明两者的真实值和估计值吻合良好。利用自适应卡尔曼滤波算法对汽车行驶状态参数进行估计可以降低汽车的成本,是一种行之有效且具有工程应用价值的方法。     

船舶大舵角转向时艏摇与横摇的耦合仿真研究

摘要：为进一步研究船舶在大幅度转向时艏摇和横摇的耦合机制,在非线性船舶运动数学模型的基础上,进行了不同情形下的操纵仿真试验。试验结果显示在大舵角转向时,船舶的艏摇和横摇运动存在较强的耦合作用,横摇幅度和艏摇幅度存在正相关性。指出大幅度的横摇使艏摇出现相位滞后和偏离基准航向的现象;在横摇过大的情况下,大幅度动舵和加速操纵将导致稳性迅速消失和航向打横。     

基于滑膜变结构车辆稳定性控制的仿真研究

采用Magic Formula轮胎模型,运用MATLAB/Simulink软件建立了参考模型和二自由度非线性汽车模型;针对汽车ESP系统的非线性、时变的特点,基于滑模变结构控制理论,设计了以横摆角速度为控制变量的稳定性控制器;在湿滑路面上进行了转向行驶以及移线行驶工况控制效果的仿真分析.研究表明:所设计的控制器能够很好地控制车辆的横摆角速度和质心侧偏角,提高了车辆的稳定性.     

船舶低速横甩机理研究

本文利用非线性振动理论研究了参数激励频率和波浪的强迫激励频率相同且等于艏摇固有频率2倍时的船舶1/2亚谐共振运动,揭示了船舶在低速航行、遭遇频率相对较高时,积累艏摇运动导致横甩发生的机理.     

Active yaw damper for the improvement of railway vehicle stability and curving performances: simulations and experimental results

To further increase passenger train comfort and handling performances, a mechatronic approach to the design of railway vehicles is necessary. In fact, active systems on board a railway vehicle allow to push design barriers beyond those encountered with just passive systems. The article deals with the development of an electro-mechanical actuator to improve the running behaviour of a railway vehicle, both in straight track and curve. The main components of the active system are a brushless motor and a mechanical transmission, used to apply a longitudinal force between the carbody and the bogie of the vehicle. The actuator is operated in force control. Different control strategies were developed for straight track running, where the aim is to increase the vehicle critical speed, and for curve negotiation, where the goal is to reduce the maximum values of track shift forces. A mathematical model of the railway vehicle incorporating the active control device has been developed and used to optimise control strategies and hardware set-up of the active device and to estimate the increase in operating performances with respect to a conventional passive vehicle. The active control device has then been mounted on an ETR470 railway vehicle, and its performances have been evaluated during in-line tests in both straight and curved tracks.     

Rear wheel torque vectoring model predictive control with velocity regulation for electric vehicles

In this paper we propose a constrained optimal control architecture for combined velocity, yaw and sideslip regulation for stabilisation of the vehicle near the limit of lateral acceleration using the rear axle electric torque vectoring configuration of an electric vehicle. A nonlinear vehicle and tyre model are used to find reference steady-state cornering conditions and design two model predictive control (MPC) strategies of different levels of fidelity: one that uses a linearised version of the full vehicle model with the rear wheels' torques as the input, and another one that neglects the wheel dynamics and uses the rear wheels' slips as the input instead. After analysing the relative trade-offs between performance and computational effort, we compare the two MPC strategies against each other and against an unconstrained optimal control strategy in Simulink and Carsim environment.     

Analysis of bifurcation and stability for a tractor semi-trailer in planar motion

This paper is intended for bifurcation analysis of a nonlinear tractor semi-trailer vehicle model in planar motion and for investigating its stability under constant running conditions. Bifurcation analysis shows that bifurcation diagrams of a tractor semi-trailer are quite different from those of a single-unit vehicle. Some instability phenomena of the vehicle system such as jackknifing, sideslip, and spinning are explained by correlating them with the behaviour in the neighbourhood of unstable fixed points based on analysis of eigenvectors, phase trajectories, and status of lateral tyre force saturation. It is also found that yaw planar instability of a tractor semi-trailer is caused by lateral tyre force saturation of the tractor's rear axles and/or the trailer's axles. Moreover, the stability region in the state space is demarcated, and a stability index for evaluating size of the stability region in a feasible domain is proposed. Yaw stability under constant driving conditions is analysed by using the proposed stability index.     

用于汽车制动稳定性的主动横摆力矩Fuzzy-PID控制

利用主动横摆力矩控制汽车制动稳定性,确立了控制目标和控制策略,建立了基于车道偏移距离的Fuzzy-PID控制模型和轮胎神经网络辨识模型,设计了Fuzzy-PID控制器并利用模糊推理方法对PID控制器的3个参数进行在线自适应调整.仿真与试验结果表明,利用主动横摆力矩Fuzzy-PID控制方法,能减少汽车在对开路面制动时的侧滑和激转等危险,使汽车在制动偏驶后能快速恢复正确行驶车道,且Fuzzy-PID方法比PID控制方法具有更好的控制效果.