This paper presents an active on-demand control strategy which is aimed for improving traction and handling performance of AWD/4WD vehicle by optimum driving force distribution to the front/rear wheels and the suggested control strategy is verified by...
This paper presents an active on-demand control strategy which is aimed for improving traction and handling performance of AWD/4WD vehicle by optimum driving force distribution to the front/rear wheels and the suggested control strategy is verified by using computer simulation. This virtual simulation is based on the Matlab/Simulink and the vehicle dynamics software CarSim co-simulation environments. Several virtual tests are performed in order to verifying performance of control algorithm for FF based 4WD with coupling and compared to the full time 4WD with fixed torque distribution ratio and the FWD vehicle.