Citation

Faraji M, Majd VJ, Saghafi B, Sojoodi M. Veh. Syst. Dyn. 2010; 48(10): 1155-1166.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00423110903362594

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this paper, considering the dynamical model of tyre-road contacts, we design a nonlinear observer for the on-line estimation of tyre-road friction force using the average lumped LuGre model without any simplification. The design is the extension of a previously offered observer to allow a muchmore realistic estimation by considering the effect of the rolling resistance and a term related to the relative velocity in the observer. Our aim is not to introduce a new friction model, but to present a more accurate nonlinear observer for the assumed model. We derive linear matrix equality conditions to obtain an observer gain with minimum pole mismatch for the desired observer error dynamic system. We prove the convergence of the observer for the non-simplified model. Finally, we compare the performance of the proposed observer with that of the previously mentioned nonlinear observer, which shows significant improvement in the accuracy of estimation.