Towards neutral steer and sideslip reduction for four-wheeled electric vehicles
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Abstract
This paper proposes an approach to achieving both neutral steer and sideslip reduction for four-wheeled electric vehicles. The control problem is reduced to constructing a servo system tracking appropriate reference input, where the tracking is realized in the framework of H ∞ control. To deal with time-varying vehicle velocity for practical purpose, a gain scheduling strategy is developed to obtain the controller, where the lower and upper bounds of the velocity are used to obtain a polytopic range for the parameters in the system coefficient matrices. A numerical example is given to show validity of the proposed approach.
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four-wheeled electric vehicles neutral steer sideslip reduction servo system H∞ control gain scheduling linear matrix inequality (LMI)Preview
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