A control system for a vehicle includes wheel slip control loop including a wheel slip controller configured to control wheel slip based on wheel speed measured at one or more wheels of the vehicle. A wheel flare control loop includes a wheel flare controller configured to control wheel flare based on transmission output speed at an output of a transmission of the vehicle. A controller is configured to select one of the wheel slip controller to control the wheel slip and the wheel flare controller to control the wheel flare during operation of the vehicle.

A control unit for a heavy duty vehicle. The vehicle includes an electric machine connected to first and second driven wheels via an differential. The control unit includes a first wheel slip control module associated with the first driven wheel, and a second wheel slip control module associated with the second driven wheel, where each wheel slip control module is arranged to determine an obtainable torque by the respective wheel based on a current wheel state, wherein the control unit is arranged to determine a required torque to satisfy a requested acceleration profile by the vehicle, and to request a torque from the electrical machine corresponding to the smallest torque out of the obtainable torques for each driven wheel and the required torque.

A vehicle control system for reducing turn radius of a vehicle may include electric motors associated with front and rear wheels of the vehicle. The system may further include a plurality of vehicle sensors to receive information including driving surface type, vehicle speed and handwheel position. The system may also include a controller operably coupled to the electric motors and the sensors to control wheel slip during a turn based on the driving surface type, the vehicle speed and the handwheel position.

Disclosed is a method for operating a rotational speed sensor comprising a sensor element in a vehicle, wherein the sensor element interacts with a magnet wheel on a wheel of the vehicle and an effective parameter generated by the interaction of the magnet wheel with the sensor element is evaluated in the form of a measurand in an evaluation module and, depending on the measurand, an output variable characterizing the rotational speed of the wheel is output, wherein the sensor element is supplied via the evaluation module with a sensor voltage influencing the measurand. A sensor assembly is also disclosed.

An acceleration slip regulation method includes determining a current control phase of a vehicle in an acceleration slip regulation state, determining a current road surface adhesion coefficient of the vehicle, determining, based on the current control phase and the current road surface adhesion coefficient, maximum torque allowed by a road surface, obtaining demand torque received by a drive motor of the vehicle and a wheel slip rate of the vehicle, and outputting adaptive feedforward torque for acceleration slip regulation based on the maximum torque allowed by the road surface, the demand torque, and the wheel slip rate, where the adaptive feedforward torque is used to perform the acceleration slip regulation on the vehicle.

A traction controller for an electric vehicle according to the present disclosure calculates a first target torque and a second target torque. The first target torque is a motor torque for achieving a target rotational speed calculated based on a target slip. The second target torque is a motor torque for achieving a target driving force set based on an estimated friction coefficient of a road surface and a ground contact load. The traction controller determines an arbitration target torque with the first target torque as a required value and the second target torque as a constraint condition, and controls the motor based on the arbitration target torque.

A braking capacity decrease determining device including a brake ECU is applied to a vehicle including wheel speed sensors and a brake device. The brake ECU performs a first determination process of determining whether a temporary braking decrease determination condition is satisfied for each of a plurality of wheels provided on the vehicle. The brake ECU additionally performs a second determination process of determining whether there are both a wheel for which the temporary braking decrease determination condition is satisfied and a wheel for which the temporary braking decrease determination condition is not satisfied out of the plurality of wheels and determining that a braking capacity of the brake device has decreased when it is determined that there are both a wheel for which the temporary braking decrease determination condition is satisfied and a wheel for which the temporary braking decrease determination condition is not satisfied.

Systems and methods are provided herein for controlling the speed on each wheel of a vehicle, possibly operating a vehicle in a speed control mode. In response to receiving input to engage speed control mode and receiving an accelerator pedal input, the system determines a target wheel speed based on the accelerator pedal input, monitors wheel speed of each of a plurality of wheels and determines, for each monitored wheel, a difference based on the monitored wheel speed and the target wheel speed. A torque is provided to each of the plurality of wheels based on the respective difference to achieve the target wheel speed.

A method for controlling torque vectoring of an xEV includes detecting vehicle speed information using speed sensors mounted in the xEV, and estimating a vehicle speed of the xEV in driving based on the detected vehicle speed information, setting a state of the xEV based on the estimated vehicle speed, determining whether there is an intervention request based on the set state of the xEV, detecting a steering angle of the xEV when the intervention request is rejected, and when the detected steering angle of the xEV is within a predetermined reference angle range, determining the xEV as being in a first slip state in which the xEV slips in a longitudinal direction, and resetting the vehicle speed of the xEV through output of a torque vectoring (TV) motor mounted in the xEV.

A system for managing motor torque in a vehicle determines a stall metric corresponding to motor speed and determines a torque limit based on the stall metric. The system determines a desired torque value, and determines whether to generate a modification to one or more baseline torque commands based on the desired torque value and the torque limit. If the baseline torque command is not to be modified, the system generates the one or more baseline torque commands corresponding to one or more motors. If the baseline torque is to be modified, the system generates one or more modified torque commands corresponding to the one or more motors based on the modification and on the one or more baseline torque commands. The modified torque command may include a minimum value that is less than the torque limit and a maximum value that corresponds to a wheel slip torque.