Research on Lateral and Longitudinal Coordinated Control of Distributed Driven Driverless Formula Racing Car under High-Speed Tracking Conditions

Aiming at the problem that it is difficult to ensure the trajectory tracking accuracy and driving stability of the distributed driven driverless formula racing car under high-speed tracking conditions, a lateral and longitudinal coordinated control strategy is proposed. Based on the adaptive model predictive control theory, the lateral motion controller is designed, and the prediction time domain of the controller is changed in real time according to the change of vehicle speed. Based on the sliding mode variable structure control theory, a longitudinal motion controller is designed to accurately track the desired vehicle speed. Considering the coupling between the lateral and longitudinal controls, the lateral controller inputs the longitudinal speed and displacement of the vehicle, using the feedback mechanism to update the prediction model in real time, the longitudinal controller takes the front wheel angle as the input, the driving torque is redistributed through the differential drive control, and the lateral and longitudinal coordinated control is carried out to improve the trajectory tracking accuracy and driving stability. The typical working conditions are selected for co-simulation test verification. The results show that the lateral and longitudinal coordinated control strategy can effectively improve the vehicle trajectory tracking control accuracy and driving stability.