An adaptive cascade trajectory tracking control for over-actuated autonomous electric vehicles with input saturation

This paper presented a novel adaptive cascade nonlinear trajectory tracking control scheme of over-actuated autonomous electric vehicles involving input saturation. First, a nonlinear vehicle dynamic model with input saturation is established, which can accurately describe the features of uncertainties and coupling of autonomous electric vehicles, and the hyperbolic tangent function is designed to estimate the saturation function for dealing with the input saturation problem. Then, a novel adaptive cascade trajectory tracking control scheme is designed. An adaptive neural network-based terminal sliding control law is proposed for producing the generalized force/moment in real-time, the asymptotic stability of this adaptive control system is proven by Lyapunov theory, and a quasi-newton distribution law is designed to determine the optimum tire forces that guarantee the actual generalized forces/moment are close to the desired values. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.