Haptic control of steer-by-wire systems using parameter estimation of rack system lateral load model

This paper describes a haptic control of steer-by-wire systems for rendering the conventional steering system under various road conditions using parameter estimation of rack system lateral load model. To design the conventional steering system model, the dynamic model of a rack system has been developed as a mass-spring-damper system with a friction model. An online parameter estimation of the rack system was designed to consider the various road conditions in the haptic rendering. In a steering wheel system, which is a haptic device, a limit cycle, and instable behavior can occur due to the sampling rate and quantization. To prevent the limit cycle and instable behavior, a passivity analysis was conducted and constraint conditions of the rendering coefficient was derived. The haptic control algorithm is designed to render the conventional steering system without limit cycles using passivity conditions. The performance of the proposed controller was evaluated via both computer simulations and vehicle tests under various steering conditions. The results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm ensures haptic rendering performance on dry and wet asphalt conditions.

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