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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11465-012-0316-5

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Towards neutral steer and sideslip reduction for four-wheeled electric vehicles

  • Guisheng ZHAI , 1 ,
  • Masayuki NAKA 2 ,
  • Tomoaki KOBAYASHI 2 ,
  • Joe IMAE 2
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  • 1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Saitama 337–8570, Japan
  • 2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka 599–8531, Japan

Received date: 17 Dec 2011

Accepted date: 30 Dec 2011

Published date: 05 Mar 2012

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
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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.

Key words： four-wheeled electric vehicles; neutral steer; sideslip reduction; servo system; ℋ∞ control; gain scheduling; linear matrix inequality (LMI)

Cite this article

Guisheng ZHAI , Masayuki NAKA , Tomoaki KOBAYASHI , Joe IMAE . Towards neutral steer and sideslip reduction for four-wheeled electric vehicles[J]. Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 2012 , 7(1) : 16 -22 . DOI: 10.1007/s11465-012-0316-5

Acknowledgements

This research has been supported in part by the Japan Ministry of Education, Sciences and Culture under Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 21560471.

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