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Global coordinated control framework for advanced all-wheel steering and driving vehicles: Unleashing potential through tire slip state assessment;




AuthorsYin, Xiaoxuan; Zhang, Lei; Ding, Xiaolin; Sun, Fengchun; Dorrell, David

PublisherElsevier BV

Publication year2026

Article number100427

Volume5

Issue5

ISSN2097-2512

eISSN2773-1537

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.geits.2026.100427

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Abstract

To address the challenge of efficient actuator coordination in all-wheel steering and driving vehicles, this paper proposes a global coordinated control framework based on tire slip state assessment. First, a hybrid feedforward control method comprising steady-state control, dynamic compensation, and oblique steering compensation is proposed to respond rapidly to the driver's demands under various driving conditions. Then, considering different steering modes of four-wheel steering vehicles, a driver intention interpretation method that integrates conventional steering and oblique steering is developed. Subsequently, a sliding mode control algorithm is utilized to track the driver's desired motion states, improving the vehicle's robustness against system disturbances. Moreover, taking lateral acceleration and yaw rate as inputs, a coordinated strategy for the four-wheel steering angles and driving torques is established based on tire slip state assessment. Finally, hardware-in-the-loop test results show that, compared to the model predictive control (MPC) algorithm, the proposed control scheme increases the maximum speed in double lane-change maneuvers by 13%, significantly improving the vehicle handling performance under different driving conditions.


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This work is partly supported by the Taishan Scholars Program under Grant No. tsqn202312310, partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 52272387 and No. 52394262, and partly supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No.2023M740244.


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