This paper presents an active safety system for passenger vehicles designed to mitigate secondary collisions after an initial impact. Thecontrol objective is to minimize lateral deviation from the known original path while achieving a safe heading angle after the initialcollision. A hierarchical controller architecture is proposed: the higher layer is formulated as a linear time-varying model predictivecontroller that defines the virtual control moment input; the lower layer deploys a rule-based controller that realizes the requestedmoment. The designed control system is tested and validated on a high-fidelity vehicle dynamics simulator.
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