Develop Yaw Control System for Ground Vehicles

Abstract

Vehicles’ Active Stability Control is intended to achieve safe and comfortable drivability response on roads. Vehicle stability usually depends on forces and vehicle interaction, in addition to many other factors such as tire-road friction, dry or wet road, steering angle and vehicle speed. Thus, it is difficult for the normal drivers to achieve optimal performance under these limits without assistance form control onboard systems, since the driver is not able to know the friction between the tire and the road and have the required response in time, which might cause more danger to the vehicle and driver. The proposed project aims to develop a Yaw Control System, which forms a solution for this problem that will prevent the vehicle from spinning, drifting and rolling over. This project will address this engineering issue by considering vehicle lateral and longitudinal dynamics on roads, obtaining a model for a testing prototype (sophisticated toy vehicle), design and apply a controller for the target toy vehicle (PID controller, Microcontroller, etc..), which simulate the real vehicle but at small scale, finally, the obtained results will be used for simulating real scale vehicle. This, of course, will helps in decreasing accidents and save people lives when the target control system is adopted and applied.