15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
DETECTION OF LATERAL VEHICLE DRIVING CONDITIONS BASED ON THE CHARACTERISTIC VELOCITY
Marcus Börner*, Luc Andréani*, Pedro Albertos#, Rolf Isermann*
* Institute of Automatic Control, Darmstadt University of Technology,
Landgraf-Georg-Str. 4, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany; Phone: +49 6151 16-7412
{mboerner, landreani, risermann}@iat.tu-darmstadt.de
# Departement of System Enineering and Control, Universidad Politécnica de
Valencia, PO Box 22012, E-46071 Spain; Phone: +34 963879570
pedro@aii.upv.es

Using real-time and online models in vehicle control and fault diagnosis necessitates knowledge about time variant physical parameters and current driving situation. Detailed information about vehicle conditions, in form of a Characteristic Velocity Stability Indicator, is used to select the corresponding vehicle model structure for adaptive drive dynamic control. After a short introduction to a lateral vehicle model, a new approach for the online calculation of different driving conditions (i.e. stability, understeering, oversteering, and neutralsteering) is given.
Keywords: Vehicle dynamics, stability, driving situation, characteristic velocity
Session slot T-Th-A10: Fault Diagnosis Application Studies I/Area code 7e : Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes