Modelling and Comparative Analysis of Anti-Lock Braking System(ABS) Control Strategies for Motorcycle based on MATLAB/Simulink

As the dependency of Electronic content is increasing in the automobile sector for safety purpose and performance requirements. For safety considerations, ABS (Anti-Lock Braking System) is an active feature for most of the vehicles. ABS is mainly used to stop vehicle without wheel locking and decreases stopping distance with minimum time period. ABS System having an ECU (Electronic control Unit) which maintain the slip on the basis of wheel and vehicle dynamics and control the fluid pressure in brake calliper for effective braking. This paper mainly focuses on modelling and simulation based control methodology using half wheel model of vehicle. Simulation model contains a vehicle dynamics model, wheel dynamics model, slip model, sliding mode optimizer and brake actuator model which all makes close loop feedback control system which increases braking performance of the motorcycle. PID controller including with sliding mode optimizer controls longitudinal slip, brake torque and stopping distance of the motorcycle. Comparison results of the motorcycle without ABS control system and with ABS control system are generated using MATLAB/Simulink platform.