A vehicle lateral control system that integrates both vehicle dynamics and
kinematics control. The system includes a driver interpreter that
provides desired vehicle dynamics and predicted vehicle path based on
driver input. Error signals between the desired vehicle dynamics and
measured vehicle dynamics, and between the predicted vehicle path and the
measured vehicle target path are sent to dynamics and kinematics control
processors for generating a separate dynamics and kinematics command
signals, respectively, to minimize the errors. The command signals are
integrated by a control integration processor to combine the commands to
optimize the performance of stabilizing the vehicle and tracking the
path. The integrated command signal can be used to control one or more of
front wheel assist steering, rear-wheel assist steering or differential
braking.