Integrated control of in-wheel motor electric vehicles using a triple-step nonlinear method

Abstract To improve the vehicle stability of an electric vehicle with four in-wheel motors, an integrated control scheme with active front wheel steering and direct yaw moment is proposed using a triple-step nonlinear method. The method handles the nonlinear tire characteristics explicitly and actualizes a decoupling control for the considered two-input two-output nonlinear system, in the sense that the closed-loop error dynamics evolve independently. The design procedure is formalized as a triple-step deduction, and the derived controller consists of three parts: steady-state-like control, feedforward control considering reference variations, and state-dependent error feedback control. Finally, the designed controller is evaluated in a realistic seven DOF vehicle model and results are satisfying.

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