Autonomous Vehicle Steering-based Feedback Linearization and Sliding Mode Control
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Keywords

Feedback Linearization, Robust control , SMC.

How to Cite

Autonomous Vehicle Steering-based Feedback Linearization and Sliding Mode Control. (2025). Al-Khwarizmi Engineering Journal, 21(3), 48-54. https://doi.org/10.22153/kej.2025.05.002

Abstract

This study proposes a robust control approach for vehicular dynamic system speed control. The proposed method combines a sliding mode controller with a feedback linearization technique. Considering the high nonlinearity of the vehicle dynamic system model, feedback linearization is used to transform the vehicle dynamic system into a linear system. A Lyapunov theorem is used to approve the stability of the proposed controller. Moreover, a proportional integral derivative (PID) controller with genetic algorithms is used for comparison. The integral absolute error (IAE) is used as the performance comparison index between controllers. Simulation results show that the proposed method can achieve excellent performance with high robustness against external disturbance and system uncertainty. In the tracking case, the IAE value of the proposed controller is 2.3, whilst that of the PID is 15.2. Under external disturbance, the IAE values are 3.1 and 19.1 for the proposed controller and PID, respectively.

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