Method for Controlling ESA System of a Vehicle and ESA System
20220144252 · 2022-05-12
Inventors
Cpc classification
B60W30/0956
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W10/00
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W10/18
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
G05D1/0214
PHYSICS
B60W30/045
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W30/09
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W10/22
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W10/04
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W10/119
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W10/20
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
International classification
B60W30/09
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W10/119
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W10/18
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W10/20
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W10/22
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W30/045
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60W30/095
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Abstract
Provided are methods for controlling ESA system of a vehicle and an ESA system. The method includes: generating a trajectory to avoid an obstacle in front of the vehicle; obtaining a target yaw rate and yaw moment according to the trajectory; allocating the target yaw moment to one or more chassis actuators; controlling the one or more chassis actuators according to allocated yaw moments. The cooperation of actuators is implemented for more safe evasion.
Claims
1. A method for controlling Evasive Steering Assistance (ESA) of a vehicle, comprising: Generating a trajectory to avoid an obstacle in front of the vehicle; obtaining a target yaw rate and yaw moment according to the trajectory; allocating the target yaw moment to one or more chassis actuators of the vehicle; controlling the one or more chassis actuators according to allocated yaw moments.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining the target yaw rate and the target yaw moment according to the trajectory comprises: calculating a lateral offset and a heading error of the vehicle according to the trajectory; obtaining a target yaw rate and yaw moment based on the following factors: the lateral velocity of the vehicle, the lateral offset of the vehicle, the heading error of the vehicle, a front steering wheel angle of the vehicle, a road curvature.
3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the step of allocating the target yaw moment to one or more chassis actuators comprises checking whether the vehicle is at over steer or under steer based on the target yaw rate and current vehicle yaw rate; allocating the target yaw moment to the chassis actuators by the following formula:
M.sub.z,tgt=M.sub.z,Driver+M.sub.z,ECS+M.sub.z,AWD+M.sub.z,ESP+M.sub.z,EPS where M.sub.z,tgt is the target yaw moment generated to follow the trajectory for evasion maneuver, M.sub.z,Driver is the yaw moment generated by driver, M.sub.z,ECS is the yaw moment generated by electric damper with different setting on front and rear, M.sub.z,AWD is yaw moment generated by all-wheel drive with different toque on front and rear, M.sub.z,ESP is yaw moment generated by partial braking, M.sub.z,EPS is yaw moment generated by electronic power steering to assist the evasive maneuver.
4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the target yaw moment is located to actuators by the following order:
M.sub.z,tgt=M.sub.z,Driver.fwdarw.M.sub.z,ECS.fwdarw.M.sub.z,AWD.fwdarw.M.sub.z,ESP.fwdarw.M.sub.z,EPS
5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the case of the vehicle is under steer, the step of controlling the chassis actuators comprises at least one of the following: for Electronic Control Suspension (ECS): output full soft damping force on front and full hard damping force on rear; for All-Wheel Drive (AWD): output minimum torque on front and maximum torque on rear; for Electronic Stability Program (ESP): output differential braking for increasing yaw rate; for Electric Power Steering (EPS): output more torque.
6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the case of the vehicle is over steer, the step of controlling the chassis actuators comprises at least one of the following: for Electronic Control Suspension (ECS): output full hard damping force on front and full soft damping force on rear; for All-Wheel Drive (AWD): output maximum torque on front and minimum torque on rear; for Electronic Stability Program (ESP): output differential braking for decreasing yaw rate; for Electric Power Steering (EPS): output less torque.
7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the chassis actuators comprise EPS and at least one of the following: Electronic Control Suspension (ECS), All-Wheel Drive (AWD), Electronic Stability Program (ESP) and Electric Power Steering (EPS).
8. An Evasive Steering Assistance (ESA) system for controlling chassis actuator, comprising: generation module, configured to generate a trajectory to avoid an obstacle in front of a vehicle; obtaining module, configured to obtain a target yaw rate and yaw moment according to the trajectory; allocation module, configured to allocate the target yaw moment to one or more chassis actuators of the vehicle; controlling module, configured to control the one or more chassis actuators according to allocated yaw moments.
9. A non-volatile computer readable storage medium, in which a program is stored, the program is configured to be executed by a computer to perform the method as claimed in claim 1.
10. A non-volatile computer readable storage medium, in which a program is stored, the program is configured to be executed by a computer to perform the method as claimed in claim 2.
11. A non-volatile computer readable storage medium, in which a program is stored, the program is configured to be executed by a computer to perform the method as claimed in claim 3.
12. A non-volatile computer readable storage medium, in which a program is stored, the program is configured to be executed by a computer to perform the method as claimed in claim 4.
13. A non-volatile computer readable storage medium, in which a program is stored, the program is configured to be executed by a computer to perform the method as claimed in claim 5.
14. A non-volatile computer readable storage medium, in which a program is stored, the program is configured to be executed by a computer to perform the method as claimed in claim 6.
15. A non-volatile computer readable storage medium, in which a program is stored, the program is configured to be executed by a computer to perform the method as claimed in claim 7.
16. A vehicle, which comprises the ESA system as claimed in claim 8.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0019] The drawings described here are adopted to provide a further understanding to the present disclosure and form a part of the application. Schematic embodiments of the present disclosure and descriptions thereof are adopted to explain the present disclosure and not intended to form limits to the present disclosure. In the drawings:
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS
[0032] The present disclosure will be described below with reference to the drawings and in combination with the embodiments in detail. It is to be noted that the embodiments in the application and characteristics in the embodiments may be combined without conflicts.
[0033] Here is the foundation of the connection of ESA with the integrated chassis control of brake, electronic damper, and all-wheel drive. The present disclosure does not cover the perception and decision of ESA system but the cooperation of primary and secondary actuators for more safe evasion in the emergency steering event.
[0034] In the present embodiments, the proposed concept assumes that vehicle is equipped with the secondary chassis actuators hardware of electronic damper and all-wheel drive, so that customer can get the benefits from both individual secondary actuators and the advanced driving assistance system of ESA.
[0035] In the present embodiments, the torque vectoring system by brake does not require additional hardware installment but only needs opening control interface for making possible the individual wheel braking. The electronic damper is originally for passenger's comfort by compensating the shock from the road and now is expanded to the safer driving assistance system of ESA. The all-wheel drive system is beneficial for slippery/icy road by increasing road-holding capability and now is also extended to the safer driving assistance system of ESA.
[0036] The emergency steering event consists of the two stages of agile and stable maneuvers shown in
[0037] Herein several terms used in the present disclosure are explained as below:
[0038] 1. Torque Vectoring by Brake:
[0039] The partial braking in the inner circle side generates more yaw moment so that makes vehicle turn quickly. In the emergency steering event shown in
[0040] 2. Electronic Damping:
[0041] The traditional damper in the vehicle has the fixed damping constant but the electronic damper has the variable damping constant c in the relation F.sub.damping=−c.Math.v between damping force (F.sub.damping) and damping velocity (v). The electronic damper system has been used in improving ride quality by counteracting the roughness coming from the road. But in the field of the integrated chassis control, it has also been used in improving handling quality with the following fundamental principle embedded in the relation between the lateral and vertical tire forces.
[0042] As shown in
TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Front Rear Fz variation Fy variation Yaw moment Damper Hard Soft ΔF.sub.z,front > ΔF.sub.y,front < M.sub.z ↓ Setting ΔF.sub.z,rear ΔF.sub.y,rear Soft Hard ΔF.sub.z,front < ΔF.sub.y,front > M.sub.z ↑ ΔF.sub.z,rear ΔF.sub.y,rear
[0043] 3. All-Wheel Drive:
[0044] The lateral and longitudinal tire forces (F.sub.x,F.sub.y) are limited by the friction circle with the vertical tire force (F.sub.z) and the friction coefficient (μ),
√{square root over (F.sub.x.sup.2+F.sub.y.sup.2)}≤μF.sub.z.
[0045] When the more driving torque is delivered to the front wheel then the more longitudinal tire force at the front does not give more room for lateral tire force at the front so that the resulting yaw moment is smaller than the reverse case.
[0046] The control strategy of each actuator for the ESA follows with the illustration shown in table 2 and
TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Actuators Agile maneuvering Stable maneuvering Control Torque Partial braking at Partial braking at Strategy vectoring inner circle inner circle Electronic Soft damping at front Hard damping at front damping Hard damping at rear Soft damping at rear All-wheel Max torque Max torque at drive at rear wheel front wheel
Embodiment 1
[0047] In the present embodiment, a method for controlling the ESA system of a vehicle is provided. As shown in
[0048] At S601, generating a trajectory to avoid an obstacle in front of the vehicle;
[0049] At S602, obtaining a target yaw rate and yaw moment according to the trajectory;
[0050] At S603, allocating the target yaw moment to chassis actuators;
[0051] At S604, controlling the chassis actuators based on the allocated yaw moments.
[0052] In the present embodiment, the step of S602 may include: calculating a lateral offset and a heading error of the vehicle according to the trajectory; obtaining a target yaw rate and yaw moment based on the following factors: the lateral velocity of the vehicle, the lateral offset of the vehicle, the heading error of the vehicle, a front steering wheel angle of the vehicle, a road curvature.
[0053] In the present embodiment, the step of S603 may include: checking whether the vehicle is at over steer or under steer based on the target yaw rate and current vehicle yaw rate; allocating the target yaw moment to the chassis actuators by the following formula:
M.sub.z,tgt=M.sub.z,Driver+M.sub.z,ECS+M.sub.z,AWD+M.sub.z,ESP+M.sub.z,EPS
where M.sub.z,tgt is the target yaw moment generated to follow the trajectory for evasion maneuver, M.sub.z,Driver is the yaw moment generated by driver, M.sub.z,ECS is the yaw moment generated by electric damper with different setting on front and rear, M.sub.z,AWD is yaw moment generated by all-wheel drive with different toque on front and rear, M.sub.z,ESP is yaw moment generated by partial braking, M.sub.z,EPS is yaw moment generated by electronic power steering to assist the evasive maneuver.
[0054] In the step of S603 of the present embodiment, wherein the target yaw moment is located to actuators by the following order:
M.sub.z,tgt=M.sub.z,Driver.fwdarw.M.sub.z,ECS.fwdarw.M.sub.z,AWD.fwdarw.M.sub.z,ESP.fwdarw.M.sub.z,EPS
[0055] In the present embodiment, in the case of the vehicle is under steer, the step of S604 may include at least one of the following: for ECS: output full soft damping force on front and full hard damping force on rear; for AWD: output minimum torque on front and maximum torque on rear; for ESP: output differential braking for increasing yaw rate; for EPS: output more torque.
[0056] In the present embodiment, in the case of the vehicle is over steer, the step of S604 may include at least one of the following: for ECS: output full hard damping force on front and full soft damping force on rear; for AWD: output maximum torque on front and minimum torque on rear; for ESP: output differential braking for decreasing yaw rate; for EPS: output less torque.
[0057] In the present embodiment, wherein the chassis actuators may include EPS and at least one of the following: ECS, AWD and ESP.
Embodiment 2
[0058] In the present embodiment, a method for controlling the ESA system of a vehicle is provided. As shown in
[0059] At S701, generating trajectory for avoiding an obstacle.
[0060] In the present embodiment, before the step S701, the ESA need to be initiated by the driver. The perception and decision is very important in the evasive maneuvering but they are not in the scope in the present embodiment. It is assumed that the perfect information comes from the perception and decision modules.
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y(t)=a.sub.5t.sup.5+a.sub.4t.sup.4+a.sub.3t.sup.3+a.sub.2t.sup.2+a.sub.1t+a.sub.0
with the six boundary conditions at
y|.sub.t=0=0,y|.sub.t=t.sub.
{dot over (y)}|.sub.t=0=0,{dot over (y)}|.sub.t=t.sub.
ÿ|.sub.t=0=0,ÿ|.sub.t=t.sub.
[0062] It results in
and a.sub.2=a.sub.1=a.sub.0=0. From the trajectory generated, the lateral offset (e.sub.1), its derivative, and heading error (e.sub.2), and its derivative can be calculated:
[0063] At S702, generating a target yaw rate and target yaw moment.
[0064] From the target trajectory, the desired target yaw rate (r.sub.tgt) and yaw moment (M.sub.z,tgt) can be obtained in the following manner:
r.sub.tgt=ė.sub.2
M.sub.z,tgt=I.sub.zë.sub.2
[0065] The state space system model consists of states from both inertial and vision:
{dot over (Σ)}=AΣ+Bδ.sub.f+DM.sub.z,tgt+Eκ
[0066] where V.sub.y is lateral velocity of vehicle, r is yaw rate, e.sub.y is lateral offset, e.sub.ψ is heading error, δ.sub.f is front steering wheel angle, κ is road curvature, M.sub.z is yaw moment, and
[0067] At S703, allocating the yaw moments to actuators.
[0068] Based on the yaw moment induced by driver, the target yaw moment needs to be allocated to the actuators to complete the evasive maneuver
M.sub.z,tgt=M.sub.z,Driver+M.sub.z,ECS+M.sub.z,AWD+M.sub.z,ESP+M.sub.z,EPS
where M.sub.z,tgt is the target yaw moment generated to follow the trajectory for evasion maneuver; M.sub.z,Driver is the yaw moment by driver; M.sub.z,ECS is the yaw moment by electric damper with different setting on front and rear; M.sub.z,AWD is yaw moment by all-wheel drive with different toque on front and rear; M.sub.z,ESP is yaw moment by partial braking, which generates the yaw rate of 2-3 deg/sec which is tunable; M.sub.z,EPS is yaw moment by electronic power steering to assist the evasive maneuver.
[0069] In the present embodiment, as shown in
M.sub.z,tgt=M.sub.z,Driver.fwdarw.M.sub.z,ECS.fwdarw.M.sub.z,AWD.fwdarw.M.sub.z,ESP.fwdarw.M.sub.z,EPS
[0070] As shown in
[0071] At S704, controlling the actuators based on the allocated yaw moments.
[0072] Based on the check of over/under steer, the actuators are controlled as table 3:
TABLE-US-00003 TABLE 3 ECS AWD ESP EPS Under Full Soft on front Min torque on front Differential More Steer Full Hard on rear Max torque on rear braking for torque increasing yaw rate Over Full Hard on front Max torque on front Differential Less Steer Full Soft on rear Min torque on rear braking for torque decreasing yaw rate
[0073] In practice, the yaw moments generated from ECS and AWD is not large in comparison to yaw moments generated from ESP and EPS. That is why full soft/hard damping force and max/min torque are applied to ECS and AWD, respectively. And then ESP and EPS take care the required remaining yaw moment which is M.sub.z,tgt−(M.sub.z,Driver+M.sub.z,ECS+M.sub.Z,AWD). In ESP and EPS, two much partial braking and steering torque irrigate driver so it is restricted that ESP generates about 2-3 degree/sec of the required yaw rate and EPS takes care of the remaining required yaw rate and moment.
[0074] Note that the present embodiment may include the possible combination of actuators as shown in table 4. It covers every combination of actuators from EPS only system to all the combined actuators according to target yaw moment allocation shown at
TABLE-US-00004 TABLE 4 3 + EPS 2 + EPS 1 + EPS EPS only 8 cases of ECS/AWD/ ECS/AWD + ECS + EPS combination ESP + EPS EPS EPS ECS/ESP + AWD + EPS EPS AWD/ESP + ESP + EPS EPS
Embodiment 4
[0075] In the embodiment, an ESA system for controlling chassis actuators is provided. The ESA is configured to implement the abovementioned embodiments with preferred implementation modes. What has been described will not be elaborated. For example, term “module”, used below, may be a combination of software and/or hardware realizing a predetermined function. Although the device described in the following embodiment is preferably implemented by the software, implementation by the hardware or the combination of the software and the hardware is also possible and conceivable.
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[0077] The generation module 10 is configured to generate a trajectory to avoid an obstacle in front of the vehicle.
[0078] The obtaining module 20 is configured to obtain a target yaw rate and yaw moment according to the trajectory.
[0079] The allocation module 30 is configured to allocate the target yaw moment to one or more chassis actuators.
[0080] The controlling module 40 is configured to control the one or more chassis actuators according to allocated yaw moments.
Embodiment 4
[0081] According to the present embodiment, a non-volatile computer readable storage medium is provided, a program is stored in the non-volatile computer readable storage medium, and the program is configured to be executed by a computer to perform the following steps.
[0082] At S1, generating a trajectory to avoid an obstacle in front of a vehicle;
[0083] At S2, obtaining a target yaw rate and yaw moment according to the trajectory;
[0084] At S3, allocating the target yaw moment to one or more chassis actuators;
[0085] At S4, controlling the one or more chassis actuators according to the allocated yaw moments.
[0086] In an embodiment, the storage medium in the embodiment may include, but not limited to, various medium capable of storing computer programs such as a U disk, a ROM, a RAM, a mobile hard disk, a magnetic disk or an optical disk.
Embodiment 5
[0087] According to the present embodiment, a vehicle is provided. As shown in
[0088] It is apparent that those skilled in the art should know that each module or each step of the present disclosure may be implemented by a universal computing device, and the modules or steps may be concentrated on a single computing device or distributed on a network formed by a plurality of computing devices, and may in an embodiment be implemented by program codes executable for the computing devices, so that the modules or the steps may be stored in a storage device for execution with the computing devices, the shown or described steps may be executed in sequences different from those described here in some circumstances, or may form individual integrated circuit module respectively, or multiple modules or steps therein may form a single integrated circuit module for implementation. Therefore, the present disclosure is not limited to any specific hardware and software combination.
[0089] The above is only the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure and not intended to limit the present disclosure. For those skilled in the art, the present disclosure may have various modifications and variations. Any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present disclosure shall fall within the scope of protection of the present disclosure.