This paper focuses on the design of longitudinal controller for an intelligent vehicle which was built at Asian Institute of Technology based on sliding mode control. The proposed controller uses particle swarm optimization (PSO) for optimal tuning of sliding surface and controller gain in the sliding mode controller (SMC). The longitudinal control is conducted via controlling of throttle value angle using PSO-based SMC on the simplified first-order linear model of the intelligent vehicle and controlling of brake force using fuzzy logic. In order to achieve the desired headway time, integration of throttle valve angle control and brake force control is required. To obtain the optimal parameters of SMC, two equations velocity updating and position updating are applied. Firstly, the performance of proposed controller is evaluated by using MATLAB simulation to compare with conventional PD controller. Finally, the experimental results show that the proposed PSO-based SMC can perform efficiently in longitudinal control of the intelligent vehicle.
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