Abstract
Electric automobiles with four in-wheel moters have been developed in recent year. By using dynamic differential force between wheels, lateral motion of the automobile can be controlled with yaw moment. This framework is known as “Direct Yaw-moment Control (DYC)”. In many previous works of DYC methods, yaw-moment is used for increasing the stability. However, maneuverability has not been discussed. In this paper, a novel DYC controller is proposed that gives the neutral steering, where neutral steering is a good evaluation index of maneuverability of automobiles. The proposed controller is derived based on the output zeroing control. The effectiveness of proposed method is shown by numerical example.
