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Yaw stability control is an important consideration for improving the stability and handling behavior of a vehicle during extreme steering maneuvers. This paper proposes a fuzzy logic based yaw stability controller for an active front steering of a four-wheeled road vehicle by using steer-by-wire system. The proposed control system takes the yaw rate error, the steering angle given by the driver and the vehicle body side slip angle as inputs, for calculating the additional steering angle as output for stabilizing the yaw moment of the vehicle. A three degrees-of-freedom vehicle model is considered. Performance of the proposed system is simulated for sinusoidal, step maneuver using Matlab/Simulink tool, and the results are compared with the existing fuzzy control system which uses two inputs such steering angle and yaw rate. The simulation results show better performance of the proposed fuzzy based yaw controller as compared with the existing control system.
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S. Krishna is an Assistant Professor at Mechatronics Division, VIT University, Vellore. He received his B.S. degree in Electronics and Communication and M.S. degree in Mechatronics from VIT University His research areas include automotive steering systems, modern control systems.
S. Narayanan is Senior Professor and Pro-Vice Chancellor at VIT University, Vellore. He received his degree.S. in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management from Pondicherry University. His areas of interest include industrial engineering and management, and manufacturing.
S. Denis Ashok a Professor at VIT University, Vellore. His B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. degree in Production Engineering are from Madurai Kamaraj University and his Ph.D. is from IIT Madras. His research interests include spindle metrology, soft computing techniques, mechatronic systems.
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Krishna, S., Narayanan, S. & Denis Ashok, S. Fuzzy logic based yaw stability control for active front steering of a vehicle. J Mech Sci Technol 28, 5169–5174 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-014-1140-0
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