A driving control apparatus includes: a generating part that generates, with a predetermined control period, a vehicle model; and a calculating part that calculates, as an optimal steering angle, a steering angle that minimizes or maximizes an output value of an evaluation function including an estimated lateral deviation, an estimated azimuth deviation, a steering angle, and a change amount of the steering angle from the immediately preceding control period, calculated based on the vehicle model. The calculating part causes the coefficient of the term corresponding to the change amount after an initial period has passed from when the vehicle started to be smaller than the weighting coefficient of the term corresponding to the change amount up to when the predetermined initial period has passed from when the vehicle started.

Provided is a steering control device and a steering control method that can suppress the deterioration of the turning responsiveness at the initial stage of steering that may occur in a four-wheel steering vehicle and improve the steering stability when the front and rear wheels of the four-wheel steering vehicle are controlled in the same phase. A steering control device 1 of a vehicle that controls a rear wheel steering angle based on a front wheel steering angle includes a control unit 19 that controls an amount obtained by dividing an integrated value of a change in the rear wheel steering angle in a second steering section where an absolute value of the front wheel steering angle is constant and/or decreases by a time to be larger than an amount obtained by dividing an integrated value of a change in the rear wheel steering angle in a first steering section where the absolute value of the front wheel steering angle increases by a time.

The four-wheel steering system includes a rear-wheel steering system that steers rear wheels of the vehicle in accordance with a steering angle of a steering wheel. When the vehicle speed is lower than a vehicle speed threshold, the rear-wheel steering system steers the rear wheels in an opposite direction to that in which the front wheels are steered. When the vehicle speed is lower than the vehicle speed threshold, the rear-wheel steering system sharply increases the rate of increase in target steered angle of the rear wheels with respect to an increase in steering angle when an absolute value of the steering angle is equal to or larger than an absolute value of an angle threshold. The front-wheel steering system has a motor that is a source of a steering assist force and a first ECU that controls the motor in accordance with the steering state.

An integrated chassis control method may include stability control after avoidance performing stability steering assist control after avoiding a forward collision situation by avoidance steering assist control when the forward collision situation is verified by an integrated chassis controller.

A steering control apparatus, a steering control method, and a steering control system according to the present invention output an instruction for generating a periodic yaw moment opposite in phase from an rolling motion occurring on a hitch vehicle including a vehicle and a trailer to a rear-wheel steering apparatus configured to control a steering angle of a rear wheel of the vehicle.

In a steering control device, method, and system, a command is calculated for generating a periodical yaw moment having a phase opposite to oscillating motion based on information on oscillating motion which occurs in a vehicle combination composed of a vehicle and a trailer, and based on the calculated command, a first steering angle command for controlling a steering angle of the front wheels of the vehicle is output to a front wheel steering control unit and a second steering angle command for controlling a steering angle of the rear wheels of the vehicle is output to a rear wheel steering control unit, so that the oscillating motion can be suppressed.

A method for steering a four-wheeled vehicle includes: determining a front wheel steering angle; determining a responsive low-speed steering angle of the two rear wheels, the responsive low-speed steering angle being (i) negative when the front wheel steering angle is positive, and (ii) positive when the front wheel steering angle is negative; determining a responsive high-speed steering angle of the two rear wheels, the responsive high-speed steering angle being (i) non-negative when the front wheel steering angle is positive, and (ii) non-positive when the front wheel steering angle is negative; determining a responsive rear wheel steering angle being a sum of the responsive low-speed and high-speed steering angles; and controlling a steering actuator to steer the two rear wheels in accordance with the responsive rear wheel steering angle.

A rubber-tired train, and a control method and system thereof are disclosed. The train comprises multiple cars connected in series in turn, the cars include a relatively front car and a relatively rear car, and the front car is able to rotate in a horizontal plane relative to the rear car. The method comprises: acquiring a turning angle of a front car at a target position; determining a turning angle of a rear car at the target position according to the turning angle of the front car; and when it is determined that the rear car reaches the target position, controlling the rear car to steer according to the determined turning angle of the rear car. The rear car can follow the front car to steer, each car of the rubber-tired train can be controlled to steer accurately, allowing the rubber-tired train to run accurately along a preset running plan.

A motion control device includes a request value acquisition unit that obtains a motion amount request value, a limit value setting unit that sets first to third motion amount limit values, a first command unit that sends a first motion amount command value based on the motion amount request value and a first motion amount limit value to a front wheel steering controller, a second command unit that sends a second motion amount command value based on a first remaining request value and a second motion amount limit value to a rear wheel steering controller, and a third command unit that sends a command corresponding to a third motion amount command value based on a second remaining request value and a third motion amount limit value to a driving controller and a braking controller.

A system and method of controlling steering of a rear axle steering device is configured so that conditions, under which the rear axle steering device is operated, are diversified during traveling of a vehicle to allow the rear axle steering device to be used universally, facilitating stable traveling of the vehicle.