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An individual motor torque control technology to improve the lateral restoring performance of the independently rotating wheel type railway vehicle, which has been applied for reasons such as low floor structure of the vehicle and application of variable gauge technology, has been developed. A new bogie analysis model and a small-scale roller-rig test bench respectively were developed to verify the control technology. A new bogie analysis model has been developed to improve the accuracy of analysis of the lateral and yaw motion of the actual vehicle. The model was verified through the response of the disturbance and critical velocity analysis. The performances of proposed control logic were verified by accomplishing a small-scale roller-rig test and simulation with improved analytical model. Lateral displacement control performs the opposite phase control by the control torque applying in the opposite direction to the front and rear wheelset, while yaw control performs the same phase control by applying the control torque in the same direction. Afterwards the yaw moments of the wheelset are combined to create a yaw moment of bogie, reducing the yaw angle and lateral displacement together. It was verified through analysis and test that the lateral restoring control performance based on the yaw angle (same phase control) was superior to the based on lateral displacement (opposite phase control).