A unified anti-slip cruise control strategy for electric vehicles

Safety and comfort are among the most crucial factors considered in the automotive industry. Anti-slip control and adaptive cruise control are therefore respectively of interest of the study of automotive technology. These two topics have, however, been studied independently; at the same time, in many promising applications, e.g., autonomous driving, there is a vital need for a system capable of controlling vehicle speed on slippery roads. The objective of this paper is therefore to propose a unified anti-slip cruise control strategy for electric vehicles. The proposed scheme is validated through typical standard driving cycles by software simulation and experiments with signal hardware-in-the-loop system based on the model of a commercial car. The results verify the advantages of the novel control strategy such as the ability to automatically operate the vehicle on a snowy condition road for 1.3 km with low slip ratio range from \(-\) $-$ 0.04 (deceleration) to 0.06 (acceleration).