In this article, the problem of trajectory tracking control is studied for autonomous vehicle with consideration of the nonlinearity and coupling characteristics. To achieve accurately trajectory tracking in longitudinal and lateral motions simultaneously, a flatness disturbance-observer-based control scheme is developed to address the kinematic coupling issue of the vehicle, which can avoid extra modeling errors introduced by linearization. The main idea is that, derived from a suitable selection of flat outputs, the complex kinodynamic vehicle model is transformed into three fully-actuated subsystems with same structure, which will provide convenience for controller design. Then, in order to compensate the lumped disturbances caused by modeling and transformation, a disturbance-observer-based control strategy is designed via backstepping. Trajectory tracking control is accomplished through longitudinal, lateral and yaw motions simultaneously. The stability of the closed-loop dynamics is guaranteed in the framework of Lyapunov and input-to-state stability theories. Finally, the CarSim simulation tests demonstrate that the proposed integrated control method can successfully promote the trajectory tracking performance in different manoeuvres.


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    Title :

    Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Vehicle: A Differential Flatness Approach With Disturbance-Observer-Based Control


    Contributors:
    Wang, Xin (author) / Sun, Weichao (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2023-02-01


    Size :

    5577834 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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