Backstepping based approach for the combined longitudinal-lateral vehicle control

International audienceThis paper presents an integrated control method of a light road vehicle driving on a known and high secured itinerary at low speed. A planning module sends a safe and low energy reference trajectory to a control module that permits to manage the trajectory tracking under 50 km/h. A backstepping procedure is presented and formulated to realize a coupled longitudinal and lateral control in lane change or collision avoidance maneuvers