Research Advances In Vehicle Lateral Motion Monitoring And Control

This paper presents a review of recent developments and trends in vehicle lateral (steering) monitoring and control research. By scanning the highly multidisciplinary and quickly developing research in this area, this paper explains the initiatives and prime techniques applied with an emphasis on steering observer and controller design. Specially, some important vehicle steering controller design problems are carefully discussed as well as current main solving approaches. Vehicle motion sensory (real sensor), observer (virtual sensor) and their relationships are also carefully studied. Besides, current developments of steer-by-wire systems are briefly examined.