Special issue: "Variable Structure Systems in Automotive Applications"

International Journal of Vehicle Design 62(2/3/4) 2013

• Application of variable-structure output feedback control to active front steering for understeer and oversteer conditions
• A sliding mode controlled three wheeled narrow vehicle
• Second order sliding modes control for rope winch based automotive driver robot
• Robust control of electronic wedge brake with adaptive pad friction estimation
• Robust nested sliding mode integral control for anti-lock brake system
• Improvements in vehicle handling and stability by a novel wheel slip coordination control scheme
• Wheel slip control of road vehicles via switched second order sliding modes
• Sliding-mode-based disturbance observer approaches for vehicle steering control
• Heavy duty vehicle tyre forces estimation using variable gain sliding mode observer
• Nonlinear sliding mode control of switched systems on continuously variable transmission shifting
• Condition monitoring of gasoline engine air intake system using second order sliding modes
• A new traction control system for the vehicle with automatic transmission