Advances in Mechanical Engineering (Nov 2019)

Research on vehicle active steering control based on linear matrix inequality and hardware in the loop test scheme design and implement for active steering

  • Guangfei Xu,
  • Peisong Diao,
  • Xiangkun He,
  • Jian Wu,
  • Guosong Wang,
  • Chuanxu Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814019892108
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11

Abstract

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In the research process of automotive active steering control, due to the model uncertainty, road surface interference, sensor noise, and other influences, the control accuracy of the active steering system will be reduced, and the driver’s road sense will become worse. The traditional robust controller can solve the model uncertainty, pavement disturbance and sensor noise in the design process, but cannot consider the performance enough. Therefore, this article proposes an active steering control method based on linear matrix inequality. In this method, the model uncertainty, road interference, sensor noise, yaw velocity, and slip side angle tracking errors are all considered as constraint targets, respectively, so that the performance and robust stability of the active front steering system can be guaranteed. Finally, simulation and hardware in the loop experiment are implemented to verify the effect of active front steering system under the linear matrix inequality controller. The results show that the proposed control method can achieve better robust performance and robust stability.