@incollection{ArrietaCastroRillWeber, author = {Arrieta Castro, Abel and Rill, Georg and Weber, Hans I.}, title = {Development of a Robust Integrated Control System to Improve the Stability of Road Vehicles}, series = {Multibody Mechatronic Systems}, volume = {54}, booktitle = {Multibody Mechatronic Systems}, editor = {Carvalho, Jo{\~a}o Carlos Mendes and Martins, Daniel and Simoni, Roberto and Simas, Henrique}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-67566-4}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-67567-1_48}, pages = {506 -- 516}, abstract = {Nowadays, new technologies are pushing the road vehicle limits further. Promising applications, e.g., self-driving cars, require a suitable control system that can maintain the vehicle's stability in critical scenarios. In most of current cars, the control systems actuates independently, meaning there is not a coordination or data sharing between them. This approach can produce a conflict between these standalone controllers and thus, no improvements on the vehicle's stability are achieved or even a worse scenario can be generated. In order to overcome these problems, an integrated approach is developed in this work. This integration, defined in this work as Integrated Control (IC), is done by an intelligence coordination of all standalone controllers inside the vehicle, i.e., Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS), Electronic Stability Program (ESP) and Four-Wheel Steering System (4WS). The ABS model was built using Fuzzy logic, for which only three rules were necessary to get a good performance. To design the ESP and the 4WS, the simple handling vehicle model was used as a reference behavior. The IC was designed using the hierarchical approach with two layers, i.e., the upper and lower layer. The upper one, observes the side slip angle and depends of its value the upper layer triggers the ESP or the 4WS. Finally, in order to prove the improvements of the IC system over the non-integrated approach, a full-size vehicle model was used to perform simulation in run-off-road and μ-split scenarios.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{ArrietaCastroChavesRilletal., author = {Arrieta Castro, Abel and Chaves, Rafael B. and Rill, Georg and Weber, Hans I.}, title = {Use of Integrated Control to Enhance the Safety of Vehicles in Run-Off-Road Scenarios}, series = {Proceedings of DINAME 2017 : Selected Papers of the XVII International Symposium on Dynamic Problems of Mechanics}, booktitle = {Proceedings of DINAME 2017 : Selected Papers of the XVII International Symposium on Dynamic Problems of Mechanics}, editor = {Fleury, Agenor de T. and Rade, Domingos A. and Kurka, R. G.}, edition = {1. Auflage}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-91217-2}, issn = {2195-4356}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-91217-2_30}, pages = {431 -- 443}, abstract = {In this work, an integrated vehicle control system (IC) is tested in run-off-road scenarios. The integrated approach was employed in order to coordinate vehicle control systems, i.e. the Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS), Four-wheel Steering (4WS) and the Electronic Stability Program (ESP). To perform a run-off-road maneuver, a fuzzy virtual test driver was designed. By receiving the lateral position of an obstacle and the vehicle's relative yaw angle, the virtual test driver is capable of following a reference trajectory. Furthermore, to test the performance of the standalone controllers, i.e. ABS, ESP and 4WS, individual maneuvers are performed using a multibody vehicle model. The vehicle without any coordination between the control systems is used as reference. For the simulation results, it is concluded that the IC improves the vehicle stability and maneuverability in comparison with the non-integrated approach.}, language = {en} }