Improvement of Vehicle Handling Safety with Vehicle Side-slip Control by Direct Yaw Moment

Abstract

In this paper, the authors propose a side-slip model following direct yaw moment control (DYC) by sliding control. In order to calculate the control yaw moment and estimate the vehicle side-slip, an onboard nonlinear tire model is used. Both computer simulation and experiments with a real vehicle equipped with the control system yield results showing the efficacy of the control system in improving active safety.