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  1. Electric vehicles with the wheels individually driven by e-motors have promising potential for improving performance through finer control over the power distribution among the wheels. Due to the absence of a mechanical driveline to connect the wheels to the transmission and engine, the virtual driveline system (VDS) is proposed as a conceptual framework to connect virtu-ally the individual electric motors and, thus, to optimize and analyze the dynam-ics and performance of vehicles. Conceptually, the VDS is based on vehicle-gen-eralized parameters (VGP), which are used in the VDS principle to establish re-lationships between VGPs and, thus, to manage the wheel power split and set up interactive/coordinated controls of the e-motors to optimize and improve energy efficiency, terrain mobility performance, maneuver, etc. Keywords: Vehicle Dynamics Theory, Modeling 
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    Bringing vehicle autonomy to the level of its driveline system means that the autonomous vehicle has the capability to autonomously control the distribution of power between its driving wheels. A vehicle can therefore improve mobility by autonomously redistributing wheel power. For this implementation, vehicle mobility must first be quantified by suitable mobility indices, derived from vehicle dynamics, to numerically show a wheel or vehicle is close to immobilization as well as evaluate the effect of mobility improvements on the vehicle velocity. A velocity-based mobility index combines wheel traction with velocity to maximize effectiveness of movement. Computer simulations demonstrate the potential to improve velocity by optimizing vehicle mobility of a 4x4 vehicle with a hybrid electric power transmitting unit. 
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