A Robust Adaptive Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Lane-keeping in Road Vehicles

In this paper, a novel adaptive terminal sliding-mode control (ATSMC) method is developed for road vehicles with uncertain dynamics. It is shown that the designed adaptive laws can recursively update the controller parameters based on the estimation values of the unknown parameter bound in the Lyapunov sense, and then the lateral position error can be driven to zero in a finite time. In comparison to the conventional sliding-mode-based vehicle lateral control method, the proposed ATSMC not only ensures fast error convergence, but also eliminates the requirement for known bounded information in controller design. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the good performance of the proposed ATSMC scheme.