A Yaw Rate Based Stability Control Tuning via Virtual Methods

Electronic Stability Control (ESC) allows to prevent safety-critical scenarios and vehicle sideslip angle estimation plays a crucial role in such applications. Time to market and safety concerns in the development and validation of such algorithms are leading the automotive industry towards virtual methods. The recent introduction of driving simulator technologies on vehicle development process allows to develop calibrate and test in advance virtual prototypes of full vehicle and its controls obtaining objective and subjective evaluation during the early stage of the vehicle development. This paper presents the methodology and results related to the development and calibration of a yaw rate based stability control grounded on a mixed-kinematic sideslip estimator. This work has been carried out leveraging tools provided by simulation platforms, scalable configurations of driving simulators and results from road tests.