Aiming at the problems of communication delay between controller and actuator in path tracking, strong nonlinearity of the vehicle system, and output constraints of the controller, this paper proposes a nonlinear path tracking controller considering communication delay to improve the performance of vehicle path tracking by taking an electric vehicle as the research object. Firstly, a two-degree-of-freedom vehicle model is established, a tire model is established by using the "magic formula", and a nonlinear path tracking model with communication delay is established; Secondly, according to the output constraints of the controller, a nonlinear robust controller is designed by using the backstepping adjustment function to meet the system performance indexes and robustness requirements; Finally, the path tracking performance is verified by simulation through MATLAB/Simulink under sinusoidal and double-shifted line conditions, respectively. The results show that: The root mean square (RMS) value of the lateral error of the path tracking of the controller proposed in this paper is reduced by 0.061 9 and 0.010 1 for sinusoidal condition and 0.097 2 and 0.034 7 for double-shift condition compared to the PID and MPC methods, respectively. The robustness of the controller in this paper is better than that of the PID and MPC methods when disturbances are introduced.
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