To improve vehicle handling performance, a variable steering ratio characteristic for steer-by-wire system is designed. The steering ratio is adjusted by a compensating coefficient according to vehicle longitudinal speed and steering wheel angle. To evaluate the performance of vehicle with variable steering ratio, simulations are conducted based on an objective evaluation index, which consists of quadratic cost functions of vehicle lateral deviation, steering angular speed, vehicle lateral acceleration and roll angle. By using the optimized data from the simulation results, a Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy neural network is designed for the steering ratio control. In order to test and validate the proposed controller, a series of comparison experiments are conducted on a closed-loop driver-vehicle system, including lemniscate curve test and double lane-change test. The results demonstrate that compared with a conventional steering system with fixed steering ratio, the proposed system can not only improve steering agility at low speed and steering stability at high speed, but also reduce driver’s workload in critical driving conditions.


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    Title :

    Variable steering ratio control of steer-by-wire vehicle to improve handling performance


    Contributors:
    Wu, Xiaodong (author) / Li, Wenqi (author)


    Publication date :

    2020-02-01


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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