Electric power controller for steering wheel management in electric cars

Driverless driving is one of the most interesting topics in the field of the intelligent transportation systems. Among these topics, the automation of the actuators involved in the management of a car, and out of them the control of the steering wheel constitute one of the most complex. In this paper, automatic power steering architecture to manage the steering wheel via Ethernet controller is developed. An on-board PC is connected to the controller to permit handling by computer generated signals. An electric car has been equipped with the system designed and tests to prove the behavior of the system in actual situations in the private driving circuit at the IAI facilities are included.