This study investigates the improvement of off-road vehicle lateral stability by integrated control of active rear steering (ARS) and rear differential braking (RDB) and how the performance of such systems compares on smooth and rough roads. The ARS and RDB controllers comprise a sliding mode controller (SMC) for which critical design choices are the SMC reference model, SMC gain and integration rule. Findings include that the kinematic model reference error is preferred over the phase plane location error on both terrains, the SMC gain is terrain dependent, and the rear axle slip angle is the preferred integration rule over the stability index (SI) on both terrains. The study also found that RDB, and to a lesser degree ARS, tends to improve on the baseline vehicle path-following ability for a double lane change (DLC) manoeuvre on both terrains, but RDB has a larger loss of speed compared to ARS. The Rear axle slip angle was found to be a terrain-dependent tuneable integration rule to combine ARS and RDB, and this resulted in a control system that has the good path-following ability of RDB but the low loss of speed associated with ARS after tuning.
Investigating off-road vehicle lateral stability with integrated chassis control
VEHICLE SYSTEM DYNAMICS
S. J. SCHOLTZ AND H. A. HAMERSMA
Vehicle System Dynamics ; 62 , 11 ; 2974-2995
2024-11-01
22 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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