An H∞ control strategy based on the phase plane method (phase plane H∞ controller) tracking two degrees of freedom (DOF) ideal vehicle trajectory scheme is designed for distributed drive electric vehicles with stability enhancement. Firstly, an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) tire road friction coefficient estimation method based on Keras neural network is presented to accurately and efficiently identify the tire road friction coefficient, taking into account the huge influence of the tire road friction coefficient on vehicle equilibrium point and stability region. Secondly, the phase plane method is applied to provide a dynamic stability boundary for the switching control strategy of direct yaw moment for different tire road friction coefficients; Furthermore, based on the dynamic stability boundary, the weighted phase stability is applied to achieve more realistic stability evaluation criteria, and the fuzzy control strategy is adopted to carry out the feedback regulator of the target side slip angle and yaw rate on the purpose of limiting its maximum value max (β) and max (ωr). Then the torque of the four-wheel was optimized by the quadratic programming method. Finally, the presented method is verified and the results indicate that: (1) the phase plane H∞ control has the advantage in terms of stability and maneuvering performance. More importantly, under a low tire road friction coefficient, the amplitude of the side slip angle is decreased by 26.52% over the H∞; (2) the designed EKF based on Keras neural network parameter correction has a quick and accurate performance in identifying the tire road friction coefficient, and the steady-state error does not exceed 3.25%.
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