Vehicle motion control with subsystem prioritization

This paper presents a new approach for integrated vehicle motion control, coordinating multiple vehicle subsystems of a passenger car including friction brake system, near-wheel drive electric motors, wheel steer actuators, camber angle actuators, dynamic tire pressure system and actuators generating additional normal forces. The proposed algorithms are based on restriction weights into the cost function of optimization-based control allocation. Hardware-in-the-loop investigation using a test rig with hardware components of friction brake system and dynamic tire pressure system showed that the proposed approach allows to achieve lower energy consumption and energy losses without significant impairment of motion stability and vehicle handling as compared to conventional control allocation.