Abstract
To investigate the driving dynamics of automobiles, it is necessary to study the control characteristics of drivers. In this paper, a self-paced preview tracking control model is proposed to represent the action of a driver who is driving an automobile along a curved course, assuming that he can predict the future state of the automobile based upon the present state, and that the predicted future deviation and the predicted lateral acceleration are fed back to the steering force and the vehicle speed command respectively. With this model the dynamics of such man-automobile systems is investigated making use of simulation by a digital computer. From these simulation experiments, adequateness of the model is confirmed.