A controller and a method for controlling motion of a vehicle is provided. The method comprises acquiring motion information including a current state of the vehicle and a desired state of the vehicle, determining a combination of a steering angle of the wheels and motor forces for moving the vehicle from the current state into the desired state by using a first model of the motion of the vehicle and a second model of the motion of the chassis of the vehicle, determining a cost function of the motion of the vehicle, optimizing the cost function of the motion of the vehicle to compute a command signal for controlling the steering wheel and the plurality of electric motors, and controlling the steering angle of the wheels and the motor forces based on the command signal.

A computer-implemented method performed in a vehicle control unit for controlling motion of a heavy-duty vehicle. The method includes obtaining a vehicle motion request, wherein the vehicle motion request is indicative of a target curvature and a target acceleration, determining a motion support device, MSD, control allocation based on the vehicle motion request, determining a dynamic wheel slip angle limit based on the vehicle motion request, where dynamic wheel slip angle limit increases with a decreasing target acceleration, and controlling the motion of the heavy-duty vehicle based on the MSD control allocation constrained by the dynamic wheel slip angle limit.

A display system comprises a camera for capturing traveling video of a vehicle. a sensor for detecting traveling state information of the vehicle, a display device, and one or more processors. The one or more processors execute calculating a steady circular turning trajectory of the vehicle based on the traveling state information, estimating a slip angle of the vehicle based on the traveling state information, rotating the steady circular turning trajectory in accordance with the slip angle to calculate a predicted trajectory, and displaying the traveling video and the predicted trajectory on the display device in a superimposed manner.

A vehicle control apparatus according to the present invention outputs a signal regarding a target braking/driving force for guiding a vehicle in a target traveling direction to a braking/driving controller. The signal regarding the target braking/driving force is acquired based on information regarding a running route of the vehicle and a physical amount regarding a motion state of the vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus outputs a signal regarding a steering correction torque for correcting a steering torque according to a behavior of the vehicle to a steering force controller. The signal regarding the steering correction torque is acquired based on a vehicle-body slip angle of the vehicle and the target braking/driving force.

A method to control, while driving along a curve, a road vehicle with a variable stiffness and with rear steering wheels. The method comprises the steps of: determining an actual attitude angle of the road vehicle; establishing a desired attitude angle; determining an actual yaw rate of the road vehicle; establishing a desired yaw rate; and changing, in a simultaneous and coordinated manner, the steering angle of the rear wheels and the distribution of the stiffness of the connection of the four wheels to the frame depending on a difference between the actual attitude angle and the desired attitude angle and depending on a difference between the actual yaw rate and the desired yaw rate.

A method for generating a lateral offset trajectory for an at least partially automated mobile platform. The method includes: providing a target lateral offset; inverting a provided dynamic model of the mobile platform; providing at least one limit of a system variable of the dynamic model for determining the lateral offset trajectory; determining a time sequence of lateral offset trajectory points for the inverted dynamic model with a state variable filter, based on the limit(s) of the system variable, and the target lateral offset as an input signal; and determining a time sequence of values of at least one manipulated variable for the mobile platform, using the inverted dynamic model and the time sequence of the lateral offset trajectory points as an input signal for the inverted dynamic model, to generate the lateral offset trajectory.

A travel control device includes: a risk level calculation unit configured to acquire a speed in a traveling direction of a vehicle, a speed of the vehicle in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the traveling direction, and an azimuth angular velocity of the vehicle and calculate a rollover risk level based on a lateral load transfer ratio (LTR) of the vehicle; a deceleration calculation unit configured to calculate deceleration indicating an extent to which to lower the speed in the traveling direction when an absolute value of the rollover risk level exceeds a threshold value; and a control unit configured to control a driving system of the vehicle using a value obtained by lowering a target speed of the vehicle on the basis of the deceleration as a new target speed.

The present disclosure provides a steering control apparatus, a method therefor and a steering system, wherein, when a vehicle slips, the steering control apparatus increases traction by steering a road wheel to the left and right along a current steering direction. Particularly, the steering control apparatus comprises: a slip occurrence determination unit for determining whether or not the vehicle has slipped; a steering angle determination unit for, when it is determined that the vehicle has slipped, determining a current steering angle of a steering wheel as a reference steering angle; and a control unit for controlling a driving shaft so that the road wheel may be steered to the left and right within a first angle range on the basis of the reference steering angle.

A method for controlling axle load distribution of a heavy-duty vehicle during a maneuver, wherein the heavy-duty vehicle comprises a number of wheel axles and one or more motion support devices arranged to adjust a relative axle load of one or more wheel axles of the number of wheel axles, the method comprising obtaining a vehicle model and a tire model, wherein the vehicle model and the tire model are jointly configured to predict a tire scrubbing force in dependence of a vehicle state comprising a relative axle load distribution during the maneuver, determining a nominal tire scrubbing force for a current relative axle load distribution, determining an improved relative axle load distribution maneuver associated with a reduced tire scrubbing force compared to the nominal tire scrubbing force, and controlling the one or more motion support devices to provide the improved relative axle load distribution during the maneuver.

A method of controlling a vehicle having wheels provided with tires resting on a surface, the method using a model of the physical behavior of each tire as a function of a sideslip angle (β.sub.ij) for each tire relative to the surface. The model is obtained by implementing an adaptive algorithm that selectively applies an affABREGEine model (Z1), a DUGOFF model (Z2), or a constant model (Z3).