Stabilization of Vehicle Dynamics by Tire Digital Control—Tire Disturbance Control Algorithm for an Electric Motor Drive System
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This work deals with the vehicular stablization via tire disturbance control, which is of great interest. The outcomes of the work show the improvement of the vehicular stability. As a journal paper, I here have some concerns/suggestions for the authors.
The standards for the "Drive feeling score vs frequency" shoud be added for reference.
The authors have done the research on the wet road surface, then how about the dry ones for the control algorithm? Is it fair to draw the conclusion for all surfaces with the control?
Figures 3, 5-9 should be redraw, they are not clear.
We should not cite referneces in the Conclusion Section, and in the Introduction Section, more recent literature is needed.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Line | Comment |
20 | “algorithm” is better to be omitted from keywords as it is too general. |
62,67 | Needs referencing or calculation |
71 | It would be desirable to give sample values of Cp, K, B that result in these tau values. |
126 | The figure is ambiguous and has low quality as they do not clearly show which transfer function given above is used in each block; Also, all main signals in the block-diagram are better to be labelled for clarity of the control scheme. Is it possible to increase the quality of the figure? |
144 | It would be good if author mentions the threshold considered here and the basis for it, briefly. |
170 | The stability of a turning vehicle in steady-state is mainly determined by the lateral tire forces. Although limiting the fluctuation in longitudinal tire force may result in less fluctuating lateral force as well, such a control over Fd cannot stabilize a turning vehicle on its own. It would be better to use the term “improvement of stability” or “expanding the stability margin”, etc. |
180 | Is it possible to include a table or brief explanation of the criteria used for “steering feeling”? |
197-198 | The range (V) which appears to be indicated in the table in figure 8 as (I-IV) is labelled with the score of 7, similar to range I. What is the reason to choose (V) over (I)? Does the result imply only the upper limit of frequency is important with the chosen ranges? |
201 | Should be Fig. 9 |
234, 235 | Could this sentence be explained further? |
253-263 | Some references are missing titles. Publication year of [5] seems to be 1999. |
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