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This paper presents a control scheme for performance improvement in lane-keeping activity of autonomous vehicle, within guaranteed specified deviations. Such feature will provide better and safe maneuvering for autonomous vehicle. The proposed control scheme consists of Asymmetric Barrier Lyapunov Function (ABLF) based backstepping method for ensuring stability and constraints satisfaction. Since autonomous vehicle dynamics is subjected to unknown disturbances and also the states, it has been shown that the vehicle performance can be improved by the application of Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) which uses the Extended State Observer (ESO). For the proposed control scheme, the asymptotic stability and convergence of error dynamics have been established. The simulation results have been presented to illustrate the performance robustness and accuracy provided by the proposed control scheme. Further, it has been show that the vehicle motion performance is better in comparison to the performances obtained from two existing control methods.

In a surface vehicle ride, the passenger’s comfort is desirable, ensuring safety under various tight constraints. To consider this requirement, this article has proposed a lateral control for autonomous vehicle considering the lateral offset error constraints. A reduced-order dynamics of the vehicle has been considered for improving and easy implementation of backstepping. A nonlinear control has been developed by utilizing the Time-varying Asymmetric Barrier Lyapunov Function via the Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) approach. The Extended State Observer, a component of applied ADRC, estimates all unknown system states as well as the unknown disturbance. The desired trajectories (smooth and non-smooth) based on the yaw rate profile have been synthesized to test the performance of the vehicle. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed closed-loop control strategy. The vehicle performance has been compared using the proposed method, the conventional Quadratic Lyapunov Function and Symmetric Barrier Lyapunov Function based control. The proposed control provides a smoother control signal, small tracking error and robustness in presence of hard road constraints for smooth/non-smooth vehicle motion.