Vehicle State-Based Control for Modern Automotive Platforms: Bridging Research and Industrial Applications

Recent advancements in control technologies, sensor availability and intelligent actuators have driven the development of Integrated Vehicle Dynamics Control (IVDC). This approach offers a unified framework for managing complex interactions between subsystems, enabling enhanced safety, performance and adaptability features. However, practical implementation and widespread diffusion of this technology remain a significant challenge due to the lack of standardized strategies and heterogeneity of components, with a significant gap between academic descriptions and automotive industry practices became evident through analysis of over 300 sources from scientific literature, industrial patents, and OEM documentation. This work aims to investigate the applicability of IVDC within existing vehicle architectures and address the need for a real-time adaptive control solution. A systematic examination of subsystem coupling mechanisms, industrial applications and the influence of different vehicle morphologies on the choice of control architecture are discussed. Moreover, alternative approaches, such as decoupled control and multi-agent systems, are introduced as potential solutions to overcome limitations of conventional coordination schemes. Finally, emerging perspectives on system adaptability, with particular emphasis on stability-oriented design and the enabling role of Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, are discussed. Even considering a limited availability of comparable quantitative metrics from OEMs due to proprietary considerations, the overall intention is to provide a comprehensive and pragmatic outlook on the evolving boundaries of IVDC, based on rate of usage metric as a function of actuator type and availability, considering its alignment with current and future market demands.