Title
Virtual Prototyping of an Electric Power Steering Simulator
Abstract
This paper presents a simulation tool for an electrical steering system whose aim is twofold: 1) to investigate the possibility of designing a minimum clearance mechatronic platform with sensorless control methods and 2) to evaluate assistance torque control feedback by considering technological specifications and human factor consideration. The choice has been made for a driving simulator having at least a real steering system with an electrical power steering (EPS) device and an adequate motor to reproduce the rack load force resulting from tire/road contact, as in a real driving situation. These components are gathered to form a virtual simulator platform, which serves as a basis for future realization. Our main contributions concern the vehicle's front assembly kinematics modeling and the evaluation of the load rack force resulting from tire/road interaction. In addition, a real application of the most recent virtual sensor algorithms, arising from the sliding-mode observer theory for states and unknown input estimation, is described.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TITS.2012.2211352
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
kinematics,tires,torque,force,feedback,design,algorithms,human factors,vectors,sensors
Electric power,Driving simulator,Torque,Rack,Simulation,Control engineering,Power steering,Engineering,Mechatronics,Observer (quantum physics),Virtual prototyping
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
1
1524-9050
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.48
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lamri Nehaoua1226.84
M. Djemaϊ26916.61
Philippe Pudlo3114.63