Vehicle yaw-rate control is important for realizing autonomous driving. If the desired yaw-rate response is realized, good autonomous driving can be realized. The gain-scheduled controller should be designed because vehicle has time-variant properties. However, it is difficult to design gain-scheduled controller in the case where vehicle parameters are unknown. To solve this problem, we expand virtual internal model tuning (VIMT) so as to realize desired yaw-rate responses. VIMT can tune the feedback controller by using one-shot experiment data. The processing cost is extremely low because the controller parameter can be obtained by using least square methods. In this study, we verify the validity of the proposed method through vehicle simulator of TruckMaker.

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