The tyre blow-out vehicle lateral pulling control using an active suspension system with comfort-lateral trajectory based control scheme.

Abstract

When a tyre blows out, the vehicle’s trajectory deviates from the intended path, resulting in an accident and death. Because of its larger contact patch, applying more steering force to the flat tyre will cause the tyre to separate from the wheel. Also, improper braking effort causes rollover related issues due to the sudden vehicle’s centre of gravity (C.G.) displacement and weight transfer towards the blow-out tyre. Therefore, this research attempts to return the C.G. to its initial position through the suspension control. The force supplied between the sprung and unsprung masses of the flat tyre through suspension actuator is estimated and controlled by the model predictive control (MPC) scheme with respect to its input signals. For the non-linear simulation, the four-wheel passenger car vehicle dynamic model and the combined empirical model for the tyre inflation pressure effect are used. And the equivalent plant model is identified through a simple system identification method for the MPC design. The passive and active based suspension of standalone, roll-resistant interconnected and pitch-resistant interconnected systems, including the proposed comfort-lateral trajectory controlled standalone active suspension, were examined. To assess the effectiveness of each suspension and its control strategy in a tyre blow-out scenario, a vehicle was analysed with various longitudinal velocities along with and without steer input.