Vehicle State Estimation Based on Strong Tracking Central Different Kalman Filter

Vehicle active safety control was a key technology to avoid serious safety accidents, and accurate acquisition of vehicle states signals was a necessary prerequisite to achieve active vehicle safety control. Based on the purpose, a 3-DOF nonlinear vehicle dynamics model containing constant noise and a nonlinear tire model were established, and several vehicle key states were estimated by a strong tracking central different Kalman filter (CDKF). The conclusion showed that the proposed estimator had higher accuracy and less computation requirement than the CKF, CDKF, and UKF estimators. Numerical simulation and experiments indicated that the proposed vehicle state estimation method not only had higher estimation accuracy but also had higher real-time function.