A significant challenge in electric vehicles with multiple motors is how to control the individual drivetrains in order to achieve measurable benefits in terms of vehicle cornering response, compared to conventional stability control systems actuating the friction brakes. This paper presents a direct yaw moment controller based on the combination of feedforward and feedback contributions for continuous yaw rate control. When the estimated sideslip exceeds a pre-defined threshold, a sideslip-based yaw moment contribution is activated. All yaw moment contributions are entirely tunable through model-based approaches, for reduced vehicle testing time. The purpose of the controller is to continuously modify the vehicle understeer characteristic in quasi-static conditions and increase yaw and sideslip damping during transients. Skid-pad, step-steer and sweep steer tests are carried out with a front-wheel-drive fully electric vehicle demonstrator with two independent drivetrains. The experimental test results of the electric motor-based actuation of the direct yaw moment controller are compared with those deriving from the friction brake-based actuation of the same algorithm, which is a major contribution of this paper. The novel results show that continuous direct yaw moment control allows significant “on-demand” changes of the vehicle response in cornering conditions and to enhance active vehicle safety during extreme driving maneuvers.


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    Title :

    Direct yaw moment control actuated through electric drivetrains and friction brakes: Theoretical design and experimental assessment



    Published in:

    Mechatronics ; 26 ; 1-15


    Publication date :

    2015


    Size :

    15 Seiten, 51 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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