Stability control of a vehicle with tire blowout based on active steering and differential braking

Abstract

The vehicle with tire blowout will have dangerous working conditions such as yaw and tail flick, which will seriously endanger the safety of driving. A tire blowout model was established based on the UniTire model and the change of tire blowout mechanical characteristics. A Carsim/ Simulink joint simulation platform was built to study the dynamic response of the vehicle after the front wheel tire blowout under curve driving. A combined control strategy of outer-loop trajectory control and inner-loop differential braking control based on sliding mode fuzzy control algorithms and fuzzy PID control algorithms was proposed to ensure that the vehicle can still follow the original trajectory stably after tire blowout. The results show that the tire blowout of the front wheel on the same side as the turning direction has a great influence on the instability and yaw of the vehicle, and the designed control strategy can effectively control the running track of the vehicle with tire blowout and the vehicle stability.