A Review on the Research of Lateral Control for Intelligent Vehicles

Intelligent vehicle, which has great advantages in enhancing the driving safety and diminishing road accidents, has become an emerging research focus worldwide. The development and research current status of lateral control for intelligent vehicles at home and abroad are reviewed. The research process and modeling of vehicle lateral dynamics and tire dynamics, the theory and methods of lateral control, and the automatic steering actuator design are discussed and summarized. Several research issues and development trends of lateral control of intelligent vehicles are presented, in which the modeling of vehicle lateral dynamics and the lateral controller design concerning the nonlinearity, uncertainties and time-varying characteristics, particularly in high speed lateral control, and the integrated design combining sensing, perception and decision-making systems with vehicle system dynamics will be research focuses in the future.