Reliable estimation of longitudinal force and sideslip angle is essential for vehicle stability and active safety control. This paper presents a novel longitudinal force and sideslip angle estimation method for four-wheel independent-drive electric vehicles in which the cascaded multi-Kalman filters are applied. Also, a modified tire model is proposed to improve the accuracy and reliability of sideslip angle estimation. In the design of longitudinal force observer, considering that the longitudinal force is the unknown input of the electric driving wheel model, an expanded electric driving wheel model is presented and the longitudinal force is obtained by a strong tracking filter. Based on the longitudinal force observer, taking into consideration uncertain interferences of the vehicle dynamic model, a sideslip angle estimation method is designed using the robust Kalman filter and a novel modified tire model is proposed to correct the original tire model using the estimation results of longitudinal tire forces. Simulations and experiments were carried out, and effectiveness of the proposed estimation method was verified.
This paper presents a novel sideslip angle estimator based on the pseudo-multi-sensor fusion method. The
kinematics-based and dynamics-based sideslip angle estimators are designed for sideslip angle estimation.
Also, considering the influence of ill-conditioned matrix and model uncertainty, a novel sideslip angle estimator
is proposed based on the wheel speed coupling relationship using a modified recursive least squares
algorithm. In order to integrate the advantages of above three sideslip angle estimators, drawing lessons
from the multisensory information fusion technology, a novel thinking of sideslip angle estimator design is
presented through information fusion of pseudo-multi-sensors. Simulations and experiments were carried
out, and effectiveness of the proposed estimation method was verified.