Direct Yaw-Moment Control of All-Wheel-Independent-Drive Electric Vehicles with Network-Induced Delays through Parameter-Dependent Fuzzy SMC Approach

Abstract EN

This paper investigates the robust direct yaw-moment control (DYC) through parameter-dependent fuzzy sliding mode control (SMC) approach for all-wheel-independent-drive electric vehicles (AWID-EVs) subject to network-induced delays.

AWID-EVs have obvious advantages in terms of DYC over the traditional centralized-drive vehicles.

However it is one of the most principal issues for AWID-EVs to ensure the robustness of DYC.

Furthermore, the network-induced delays would also reduce control performance of DYC and even deteriorate the EV system.

To ensure robustness of DYC and deal with network-induced delays, a parameter-dependent fuzzy sliding mode control (FSMC) method based on the real-time information of vehicle states and delays is proposed in this paper.

The results of cosimulations with Simulink® and CarSim® demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.

Moreover, the results of comparison with a conventional FSMC controller illustrate the strength of explicitly dealing with network-induced delays.