Control of a ground vehicle using quadratic programming based control allocation techniques

This paper examines the use of control allocation techniques for the control of multiple inputs to a ground vehicle to track a desired yaw rate trajectory while minimizing vehicle sideslip. The proposed controller uses quadratic programming accompanied by linear quadratic regulator gains designed around a linear vehicle model to arrive at a combination of vehicle commands. Several failure scenarios are examined and the results for two different quadratic programming approaches are presented along with a discussion of the advantages each method has to offer.