Fault Tolerant Control of Vehicle Lateral Dynamic Using a New Pneumatic Forces Multiple Model

Abstract

This paper presents a new accurate multiple model of nonlinear pneumatic lateral forces. The bicycle representation is used in order to build up an easy implemented vehicle dynamic model. Moreover, the Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy approach is applied in order to handle the vehicle model nonlinearities. This structure allows for taking into account the small variation of the vehicle longitudinal velocity. Subsequently, a Fault Tolerant Control strategy that is based on a bank of fuzzy Luenberger observers is proposed. The robustness of the control scheme against external noises is guaranteed by applying H∞ performance. Sufficient stability conditions that are based on Lyapunov method are formulated as Linear Matrix Inequality. Thus, allowing the computation of the observers’ and the controllers’ gains by using MATLAB. Finally, the simulation examples are performed to show the effectiveness of our proposal.