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Automotive Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (3): 460-469.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2025.03.008

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A New Method for Describing and Solving the Vehicle Stability Region

Changwang Jia1,3,4,Jie Li1,2(),Lingling Zheng1,Qi Zhao1   

  1. 1.Jilin University,National Key Laboratory of Automotive Chassis Integration and Bionics,Changchun 130025
    2.Jilin University,Changsha Automobile Innovation Research Institute,Changsha 410036
    3.School of Automotive Engineering,Hubei University of Automotive Technology,Shiyan 442002
    4.Provincial Key Laboratory of Automotive Power Transmission and Electronic Control,Shiyan 442002
  • Received:2024-06-07 Revised:2024-07-25 Online:2025-03-25 Published:2025-03-21
  • Contact: Jie Li E-mail:lj@jlu.edu.cn

Abstract:

The vehicle stability region is an important aspect of research on vehicle stability analysis and control. For the problems of inaccurate description and difficult solution of stability region in existing research, a quadrilateral description and automatic solution method for vehicle stability region is proposed. A nonlinear two-degree-of-freedom vehicle model is established, and the ant colony algorithm is used to solve the equilibrium state of vehicle system. The Lyapunov indirect method is applied to determine the stability of the equilibrium state. Based on the phase plane of the sideslip angle-sideslip angle velocity of mass center, several phase trajectory feature points and the phase plane stability region boundary point search method are established to solve the stability region boundary points. According to the different distributions of the vehicle stability region, two types of stability regions are proposed, and corresponding judgment methods, stability region quadrilateral description and its automatic solution methods are established. Based on the proposed method, the stability region of vehicle under common medium speed driving condition is solved. The results are compared with the parallel line method and diamond method, and the correctness of the quadrilateral description is validated by CarSim sine wave simulation results. The results show that the proposed quadrilateral description of the vehicle stability region can better describe the boundary of the stability region than the parallel line method and diamond method, and automatic solution reduces the workload of stability region solution.

Key words: vehicle stability region, phase plane, equilibrium state, ant colony algorithm, the Lyapunov indirect method