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Nowadays there is a tendency to implement various active vehicle subsystems in a modern vehicle to improve its stability of motion, handling, comfort and other operation characteristics. Since each vehicle subsystem has own limits to generate supporting demand, their potential impact on vehicle dynamics should be analyzed for steady-state and transient vehicle behavior. Moreover, the additional research issue is the assessment of total energy consumption and energy losses, because a stand-alone operation of each vehicle subsystem will provide different impact on vehicle dynamics and they have own energy demands. The vehicle configuration includes (i) friction brake system, (ii) individual-wheel drive electric motors, (iii) wheel steer actuators, (iv) camber angle actuators, (v) dynamic tire pressure system and (vi) actuators generating additional normal forces through external spring, damping and stabilizer forces. A passenger car is investigated using commercial software.

Anti-lock braking functions of electric vehicles with individual wheel drive can be effectively realized through the operation of in-wheel or on-board motors in the pure regenerative mode or in the blending mode with conventional electro-hydraulic anti-lock braking system (ABS). The regenerative ABS has an advantage in simultaneous improvement of active safety, energy efficiency, and driving comfort. In scope of this topic, the presented work introduces results of experimental investigations on a pure electric ABS installed on an electric powered sport utility vehicle (SUV) test platform with individual switch reluctance on-board electric motors transferring torque to the each wheel through the single-speed gearbox and half-shaft. The study presents test results of the vehicle braking on inhomogeneous low-friction surface for the case of ABS operation with front electric motors.