Sliding Mode Based Analysis and Identification of Vehicle Dynamics

• Main Authors: Imine, Hocine (Author), Fridman, Leonid (Author), Shraim, Hassan (Author), Djemai, Mohamed (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 414
• Subjects: Engineering.; Automotive engineering.; Control engineering.; Control.; Automotive Engineering.

Vehicles are complex mechanical systems with strong nonlinear characteristics and which can present some uncertainties due to their dynamic parameters such as masses, inertias, suspension springs, tires side slip coefficients, etc. A vehicle is composed of many parts, namely the unsprung mass, the s...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Observation and Identification via HOSM-Observers
• Vehicle Modeling
• States and Parameters Estimation
• Estimation of Road Profile and External Forces as Unknown Inputs
• Conclusions.