Fault-Tolerant Control of Electric Ground Vehicles Using a Triple-Step Nonlinear Approach

This paper investigates a triple-step approach-based fault-tolerant control (FTC) strategy for in-wheel motor electric ground vehicles, whose purpose is to preserve stability, improve handling with in-wheel motors and/or steering system faults. The proposed scheme is divided into two levels. The fir...

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Published in:IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics 2018-08, Vol.23 (4), p.1775-1786
Main Authors: Wang, Yulei, Yu, Shuyou, Yuan, Jingxin, Chen, Hong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptive control
Computer simulation
driver-in-the-loop
Drivers
electric ground vehicles
Fault tolerance
Fault tolerant systems
fault-tolerant control
Force
Ground based control
Mechatronics
Motion control
Motors
Nonlinear control
Signal generation
Signal monitoring
Steering
Tires
triple-step control
Vehicle safety
Vehicles
Wheels
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Summary:This paper investigates a triple-step approach-based fault-tolerant control (FTC) strategy for in-wheel motor electric ground vehicles, whose purpose is to preserve stability, improve handling with in-wheel motors and/or steering system faults. The proposed scheme is divided into two levels. The first level is the integrated vehicle motion control with model uncertainties, disturbances and the possible actuator faults, in which a triple-step nonlinear controller with on-line updating laws is designed. The second level is the driving reference signal generation, where the triple-step feedback law is used to provide a quantitative driving guidance and a residual signal with threshold for monitoring and evaluating drivers. The proposed FTC scheme not only achieves the vehicle safety but also the high-availability of the closed-loop driver-vehicle system. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
ISSN:1083-4435
1941-014X
DOI:10.1109/TMECH.2018.2837128