Estimation of tire-road contact for integrated control applications in current vehicles

Current vehicle control strategies aim at the integration of several actuator algorithms of the vehicle. This means a combination of the available actuators according to multiple optimization criteria due to several targets. One goal is the comfort of the driver for cruising, another objective of the optimization is the agility and stability of the vehicle during cornering. Both targets require different setups of the vehicle and different tunings of the actuators that can be achieved by an integrated control system.