A Comprehensive Vehicle Stability Assessment System Based on Enabling Tire Force Estimation

Abstract

This paper presents an enabling comprehensive vehicle stability assessment system covering vehicle longitudinal, yaw and roll stability. First, the longitudinal, lateral and vertical tire forces are separately estimated using the strong tracking unscented Kalman filter and the conventional Kalman filter based on low-cost on-board sensors. Then, a comprehensive vehicle longitudinal, yaw and roll stability space is established by utilizing the normalized tire friction ellipse and the Load Transfer Ratio value. Finally, the vehicle stability is determined and predicted based on current driver's inputs. The hardware-in-loop experimental results show that the proposed vehicle stability assessment system can accurately estimate the longitudinal, lateral and vertical tire forces with the normalized root mean square errors of 1.87$\%$, 1.07$\%$ and 1.43$\%$, and exhibits satisfying performance for vehicle longitudinal, yaw and roll stability evaluation and prediction. This bears significance for the efficient functioning of active control systems to improve vehicle safety under critical driving conditions.