# An efficient model-free setting for longitudinal and lateral vehicle control. Validation through the interconnected pro-SiVIC/RTMaps prototyping platform

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a model-free control method for vehicle longitudinal and lateral motion tracking, validated through real data and virtual simulations, demonstrating improved robustness over traditional control approaches.

## Contribution

The paper presents a novel model-free control approach for vehicle motion tracking, avoiding complex modeling and uncertainties, validated with real and virtual data.

## Key findings

- Effective control of vehicle trajectories demonstrated
- Outperforms flatness-based and PID controllers in simulations
- Validated with real vehicle data and virtual prototyping platform

## Abstract

In this paper, the problem of tracking desired longitudinal and lateral motions for a vehicle is addressed. Let us point out that a "good" modeling is often quite difficult or even impossible to obtain. It is due for example to parametric uncertainties, for the vehicle mass, inertia or for the interaction forces between the wheels and the road pavement. To overcome this type of difficulties, we consider a model-free control approach leading to "intelligent" controllers. The longitudinal and the lateral motions, on one hand, and the driving/braking torques and the steering wheel angle, on the other hand, are respectively the output and the input variables. An important part of this work is dedicated to present simulation results with actual data. Actual data, used in Matlab as reference trajectories, have been previously recorded with an instrumented Peugeot 406 experimental car. The simulation results show the efficiency of our approach. Some comparisons with a nonlinear flatness-based control in one hand, and with a classical PID control in another hand confirm this analysis. Other virtual data have been generated through the interconnected platform SiVIC/RTMaps, which is a virtual simulation platform for prototyping and validation of advanced driving assistance systems.