Adaptive sliding mode control for 4-wheel SBW system with Ackerman geometry
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Changrui Liu1, Weichao Sun1, Jinhua Zhang1
1Research Institute of Intelligent Control and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
Abstract:
In this paper, the modeling of front wheels Steer-by-Wire (SBW) system is further developed into 4-wheel SBW (4WSBW) system for electric vehicles with Ackerman Geometry taken into consideration. Moreover, a novel adaptive integral terminal sliding mode control (AITSMC) scheme is presented to control the wheel steering angles in both single-wheel situation and four-wheel situation. Based on Lyapunov criterion, stability proof guarantees that the tracking error in closed-loop converges to zero in finite time. In comparison with Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) based control, terminal sliding mode control (TSMC) and adaptive TSMC (ATSMC), the proposed control scheme only requiring information of the inertia of the wheels and the motors possesses two major advantages. First, robustness and finite-time convergence are ensured without obtaining information of disturbances caused by road conditions and parameters of viscous friction. Second, tracking error is further suppressed with noise impact in feedback loop caused by sensors while maintaining fast convergence rate. The synthesized performance of the 4WSBW vehicles is significantly improved and numerical simulations are conducted on the dynamic model of the system to corroborate the merits of the proposed control scheme.
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