分布式汽车驱动力能量效率优化分配控制

充分利用分布式驱动汽车信息源多的特点,根据扩展卡尔曼滤波算法（EKF）建立观测器对车轮侧向力进行在线估计。通过改进的车辆线性二自由度模型制定系统控制目标,依据车轮侧向力观测值设计了基于滑模变结构控制的直接横摆力矩控制器。全轮驱动力综合优化分配策略同时考虑了轮胎负荷率与驱动电机效率,完成了对车轮稳定性与能量效率的耦合控制。通过Carsim-Matlab/Simulink的仿真表明,整个系统实现了对车轮侧向力的准确估计,提高了目标直接横摆力矩计算的准确性。驱动力综合优化分配在提高车辆路面附着余量的同时也提高了各驱动电机的综合效率,进一步提高了车辆的能量利用效率。     

基于参数估计的半挂汽车列车稳定性控制研究

车辆参数估计是半挂汽车列车稳定性控制研究的关键,通过递推最小二乘法（RLS）估计整车质量和轮胎侧偏刚度,进而获取挂车横摆转动惯量,将估计的车辆参数应用于稳定性控制系统,修正控制系统参数.基于商用车动力学仿真软件TruckSim建立了某半挂汽车列车的非线性整车仿真模型,在Matlab/Simulink中设计建立了稳定性控制逻辑和参考响应模型,通过TruckSim-Simulink的联合仿真对控制方案进行了验证分析.结果表明,基于名义参数设计的控制系统受载重变化的影响较大,而带有参数估计的控制系统由于能够对控制参数进行修正,可以较好地适应载运工况的变化,受载运工况的影响较小.     

车辆直接横摆力矩的预测控制研究

针对车辆高速过弯时发生的侧滑问题,将预测控制运用于汽车ESP控制系统中,以2自由度车辆模型为预测内部模型,以车辆直接横摆力矩为输出作用于车轮来控制整车的行驶状态。结合Matlab/Simulink建立的七自由度整车模型以及轮胎模型对所设计的ESP控制器进行分析调整。实验结果表明,预测控制器能很好地控制汽车的横摆角速度和限制质心侧偏角,提高了汽车的稳定性和安全性。     

四轮独立驱动电动汽车转向稳定控制

四轮驱动电动汽车在中高速转向行驶过程中,轮胎的非线性特性会使得汽车出现大摆动、侧滑、过度或不足转向等安全问题.针对可能出现的问题,提出了四轮驱动电动汽车转向稳定分层控制策略.上层横摆稳定控制器采用基于图表的滑模控制算法规划出使车辆转向稳定的附加横摆力矩.下层转矩优化分配控制器采用模型预测控制方法实现4个轮胎的转矩分配,...     

一种新型的轮胎力级联估计方法

为了增强车辆主动安全性和底盘的集成控制,根据干扰输入观测器理论,基于简化的车轮动力学模型设计估计器,对每个轮胎纵向力进行估计.此外,基于"自行车"模型,利用车辆动力学,在纵向轮胎力估计值的基础上估计轮胎侧向力.涉及到的车载传感器测量值包括发动机扭矩和转速、轮缸压力、车轮角速度、方向盘转角、侧向加速度和横摆角速度.为验证轮胎力级联估计方法的有效性,应用高保真的车辆动力学软件ve DYNA进行了仿真研究,并与扩展卡尔曼滤波(extended Kalman filter,EKF)方法作对比分析.实验结果表明,轮胎力级联估计方法能够获得车辆轮胎力的估计效果.     

基于转矩分配的电动汽车横摆稳定性控制

四轮驱动电动汽车在行驶过程中,行驶姿态与轨迹仅靠差速控制难以准确跟踪司机指令,路面变化及轮胎非线性会使汽车出现过大摆动、侧滑、过度或不足转向等不稳定问题。针对可能出现的问题,分析了横摆角速度与车辆稳定性的表征关系,提出了基于转矩分配的直接横摆控制策略,轮毂电机均采用直接转矩控制（DTC）,实现高动态牵引,并在稳定性分析...     

车辆稳定控制中的合力计算与分配

控制地面作用于车辆的纵侧向合力与横摆转矩并将其分配到4个车轮,是车辆平面运动稳定控制的方法之一.路面的附着极限决定了合力与横摆转矩的可行域,是该方法的约束条件.本文分析了轮胎的受力特点,在摩擦椭圆理论的基础上,给出了简化的纵侧向力耦合关系.利用非线性规划方法和大量的数值计算,解决纵向合力与横摆转矩可行域的实时估计问题.构造了一种控制结构,外环控制器计算可行的纵向合力与横摆转矩;内环控制器首先将纵向合力优化分配到4个车轮,然后通过调节前轮转角使横摆转矩跟踪期望值.仿真结果表明,采用本文提出的方法对车辆进行控制,能够实现横摆角速度的快速准确跟踪,并使车辆具有良好的操纵稳定性.     

基于滑模观测器的汽车轮胎力级联估计方法

提出了一种新型的基于滑模观测器理论的汽车轮胎力级联估计方法．首先基于单轮滚动动力学模型,以车轮转动角速度及驱动力矩作为输入,针对每个车轮的纵向轮胎力设计了纵向轮胎力滑模观测器．又采用了简化的车辆2自由度模型,以纵向轮胎力估计值、 前轮转角、 侧向加速度及横摆角速度作为输入,分别设计了前、 后轴侧向轮胎力滑模观测器．最后,为验证所设计的观测器的有效性,应用高保真车辆动力学软件veDYNA进行了仿真研究,并与扩展卡尔曼滤波（extendedKalman filter,EKF）方法进行了对比分析．实验结果表明,基于滑模观测器的车辆轮胎力级联估计方法具有更高的准确性．     

四轮轮毂电动汽车横摆角速度自抗扰控制

汽车的横摆角速度对汽车稳定性和安全性有较大影响,针对汽车行驶控制时的抗干扰能力,目前还没有特别有效的汽车横摆角速度控制策略;创新性设计了基于自抗扰控制理论的用于四轮轮毂电动汽车横摆角速度的高性能控制策略;首先分析了汽车横摆角速度控制的动态模型,并通过数学变换,将其转换为二阶自抗扰控制器被控对象的标准形式;再设计双层控制结构,包括直接横摆力矩制定层和转矩分配层;在直接横摆力矩制定层,利用二阶自抗扰控制器计算出控制汽车横摆角速度所需的附加横摆力矩;在转矩分配层,设计了转矩分配算法,利用附加横摆力矩得到4个车轮的指令转矩,进而控制电动汽车横摆角速度;最后,通过Matlab/Simulink和汽车动力学仿真软件CarSim联合仿真验证了所设计控制策略的有效性。     

高速4WID-4WIS自主车路径跟踪控制

高速4WID-4WIS自主车采用独立悬挂结构,所有车轮均可独市驱动、制动和转向.对自主车路径跟踪问题进行几何和运动学上的描述,结合Burckhardt非线性轮胎模型建立自主车作路径跟踪运动时的2阶动力学模型,提出自主车进行路径跟踪的协调控制体系结构,利用白抗扰控制方法设计路径跟踪系统纵向速度、侧向位移和横摆角运动3个动...     

Disturbance Observer Based Control for Four Wheel Steering Vehicles With Model Reference

This paper presents a disturbance observer based control strategy for four wheel steering systems in order to improve vehicle handling stability. By combination of feedforward control and feedback control, the front and rear wheel steering angles are controlled simultaneously to follow both the desired sideslip angle and the yaw rate of the reference vehicle model. A nonlinear three degree-of-freedom four wheel steering vehicle model containing lateral, yaw and roll motions is built up, which also takes the dynamic effects of crosswind into consideration. The disturbance observer based control method is provided to cope with ignored nonlinear dynamics and to handle exogenous disturbances. Finally, a simulation experiment is carried out, which shows that the proposed four wheel steering vehicle can guarantee handling stability and present strong robustness against external disturbances.      

Yaw Moment Control Strategy for Four Wheel Side Driven EV

When four wheel side driven EV travals in steering or changes lanes in high speed, the vehicle is easy to side-slip or flick due to the difference of wheel hub motor and a direct effect of vehicle nonlinear factors on vehicle yaw motion, which would affect vehicle handling and stability seriously. To solve this problem, a joint control strategy, combined with the linear programming algorithm and improved sliding mode algorithm, which combines the exponential reaching law and saturation function was proposed. Firstly, the vehicle dynamics model and the reference model according with the structure and driving characteristics of four wheel side driven EV were set up. Then, introduced the basic method of the improved sliding mode variable structure control and complete the sliding mode variable structure controller design basic on vehicle sideslip angle and yaw velocity.The controller accomplish optimal allocation of vehicle braking force through a linear programming algorithm, according to yaw moment produced by the vehicle motion state. Single lane driving simulation results show that the proposed control strategy can not only control vehicle sideslip angle and yaw velocity well, but also accomplish good controlling of the vehicle yaw moment, so as to significantly improve the handling and stability of vehicle.     

Integrated vehicle dynamics management for distributed‐drive electric vehicles with active front steering using adaptive neural approaches against unknown nonlinearity

This paper proposes a new integrated vehicle dynamics management for enhancing the yaw stability and wheel slip regulation of the distributed‐drive electric vehicle with active front steering. To cope with the unknown nonlinear tire dynamics with uncertain disturbances in integrated control problem of vehicle dynamics, a neuro‐adaptive predictive control is therefore proposed for multiobjective coordination of constrained systems with unknown nonlinearity. Unknown nonlinearity with unmodeled dynamics is modeled using a random projection neural network via adaptive machine learning, where a new adaptation law is designed in premise of Lyapunov stability. Given the computational efficiency, a neurodynamic method is extended to solve the constrained programming problem with unknown nonlinearity. To test the performance of the proposed control method, simulations were conducted using a validated vehicle model. Simulation results show that the proposed neuro‐adaptive predictive controller outperforms the classical model predictive controller in tracking nominal wheel slip ratio, desired vehicle yaw rate and sideslip angle, showing its significance in vehicle yaw stability enhancement and wheels slip regulation.     

An MPC-based manoeuvre stability controller for full drive-by-wire vehicles

Aiming at the actuator time delay caused by the drive-by-wire technology, a novel manoeuvre stability controller based on model predictive control is proposed for full drive-by-wire vehicles. Firstly, the future vehicle dynamics are predicted by a two-degree-of-freedom vehicle model with input delay. Secondly, in order to prevent the vehicle from destabilizing due to excessive side slip angles, the determined ideal yaw rate and side slip angle are tracked simultaneously by optimizing the front wheel angle and additional yaw moment. Moreover, in order to improve the trajectory tracking ability, a side slip angle constraint determined by phase plane stability boundaries is added to the cost function. The results of Matlab and veDYNA co-simulation show that the regulated yaw rate can track the reference value well and the side slip angle decreases. Meanwhile, the trajectory tracking ability is improved obviously by compensating the time delay.     

An intelligent approach to the lateral forces usage in controlling the vehicle yaw rate

A direct yaw moment control system (DYC) is designed to improve the handling and stability of a four‐wheel‐drive electric vehicle. The main task of this paper is to use the lateral forces in the process of optimally controlling vehicle stability. This is performed by defining a variable optimum region for the slip ratio of each wheel. A hierarchical structure is selected to design the control system. The higher‐level control system controls the yaw rate of the vehicle based on the fuzzy logic technique. The lower‐level control system, installed in each wheel, maintains the slip ratio of the same wheel within an optimum region using the fuzzy logic technique. This optimum region for each wheel is continuously modified based on the impact of the lateral force on the generated control yaw moment and the friction coefficient of the road. Therefore, an algorithm for estimation of the friction coefficient is proposed. Computer simulations are carried out to investigate the effectiveness of the proposed method. This is accomplished by comparison of the results of control methods with a fixed slip ratio region and the results of the proposed method with a variable slip ratio region in some maneuvers. The robustness of the proposed controller against hard braking and noise contamination, as well as the effect of steering wheel angle amplitude, is verified. The simulation results show that the influence of the proposed method on enhancing vehicle performance is significant. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

高速铁道车辆悬挂系统参数化建模、优化与仿真分析

为了协调高速铁道车辆的运动稳定性与曲线通过性能之间的矛盾,本文采用多目标优化方法对一种高速铁道车辆的关键悬挂参数进行了优化处理.采用多体动力学技术建立了某型高速铁道车辆62个自由度的动力学模型,模型考虑了轮轨接触几何非线性、轮轨蠕滑非线性和阻尼非线性等.采用ADAMS-Matlab联合仿真对车辆悬挂系统进行参数化改造,使弹簧刚度和阻尼系数均可调.采用基于遗传算法的多目标优化方法对悬挂参数进行优化,使车辆模型能同时满足3种动力学指标.对比优化前后模型的动力学性能可以发现:模型的运动稳定性和曲线通过性能得到显著提高,虽然运行平稳性有小幅降低,但仍能保持在优良的工作状态.     

考虑高速公路横向坡道转向行驶操纵稳定性的汽车轴距和轮距分析

为分析汽车轴距和轮距设计对操纵稳定性的影响,建立高速公路横向坡道转向行驶的汽车转向动力学模型,并在MATLAB/Simulink软件中建立相应的仿真模型.采用某型汽车设计轴距和轮距进行仿真,得到以不同速度在不同横向坡度道路上转向行驶时的横摆角速度、侧向加速度和质心侧偏角.根据该型汽车的转向特性和侧翻阈值评价其在高速公路...     

Controller design for vehicle stability enhancement

A Vehicle Dynamics Control (VDC) system is developed for tracking desired vehicle behavior. The cascade structure of control system consists of yaw moment major controller and wheel slip minor controller. The Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) theory is exploited for yaw moment controller and the sliding mode theory is applied for wheel slip controller design. The use of yaw moment control was investigated by regulating the wheel slip ratio for improving handling and stability of vehicle. The performance of the control system is evaluated under various emergency maneuvers and road conditions through pure computer simulations and Hardware In-the-Loop Simulation (HILS) system. The results indicate the proposed system can significantly improve vehicle stability for active safety.     

Nonlinear feedback control and trajectory tracking of vehicle

This paper mainly studies nonlinear feedback control applied to the nonlinear vehicle dynamics with varying velocity. The main objective of this study is the stabilisation of longitudinal, lateral and yaw angular vehicle velocities. To this end, a nonlinear vehicle model is developed which takes both the lateral and longitudinal vehicle dynamics into account. Based on this model, a method to build a nonlinear state feedback control is first designed by which the complexity of system structure can be simplified. The obtained system is then synthesised by the combined Lyapunov–LaSalle method. The simulation results show that the proposed control can improve stability and comfort of vehicle driving. Moreover, this paper presents a lemma which ensures the trajectory tracking and path-following problem for vehicle. It can also be exploited simultaneously to solve both the tracking and path-following control problems of the vehicle ride and driving stability. We also show how the results of the lemma can be applied to solve the path-following problem, in which the vehicle converges and follows a designed path. The effectiveness of the proposed lemma for trajectory tracking is clearly demonstrated by simulation results.     

Effect of tangent track buckle on vehicle derailment

In order to investigate the effect of a tangent track buckle on the dynamic derailment of a railway vehicle, a coupled vehicle/track dynamics model is developed, in which the vehicle is modeled as a 35 D.O.F. multibody system and the track is modeled as a 3-layer discrete elastic support model. Rails are assumed to be Timoshenko beams supported by discrete sleepers, and the effects of vertical and lateral motions and rolling of the rail on the wheel/rail creepages are taken into account. The sleepers are treated as Euler beams on elastic foundation for the vertical vibration, while as lumped masses in the lateral direction. A moving sleeper support model is developed to simulate the effect of the periodical discrete sleepers on the vehicle/track interaction. The vehicle and the track are coupled by wheel/rail contacts whereas the normal forces and the creep forces are calculated using the Hertzian contact theory and the nonlinear creep theory by Shen et al., respectively. The equations of motion of the coupled vehicle/track system are solved by means of an explicit integration method. A tangent track buckle is simulated with a cosine function, which describes the misalignment of the track with different lengths due to its buckling. In the analysis the effects of the buckle wavelength and amplitude and of the vehicle speed on the dynamic behavior of the coupled vehicle/track system are considered. The present paper analyzes in detail the conventional derailment coefficients which include the ratio of the wheel/rail lateral force to the vertical force, the wheel load reduction, and the new criteria indicating the wheel/rail contact point traces and the wheel rise with respect to the rail. These criteria are simultaneously used to evaluate the risk of derailment of the whole vehicle. The numerical results obtained indicate that the track misalignment caused by the buckle and the vehicle speed have a great influence on the whole vehicle running safety when the vehicle passes through the buckled tangent track.