B62D6/003

VEHICLE, IN PARTICULAR A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE

A vehicle may have actuators, including a drive device with a drive motor that can act on a drive wheel, a brake device with a brake that can act on a drive wheel, and/or a steering device with a steering sensor by way of which the steering angle of a wheel is adjustable, a vehicle movement controller, and a setpoint value input means, a setpoint value processing means for detecting setpoint value settings of the setpoint value input means, to calculate a yaw acceleration setpoint value and translational acceleration setpoint values from the setpoint value settings. The setpoint value processing means may be configured to transfer the calculated yaw acceleration setpoint value and translational acceleration setpoint values to the vehicle movement controller, which is configured to actuate one or more of the actuators such that the yaw acceleration setpoint value and the translational acceleration setpoint values are reached.

VEHICLE
20220388570 · 2022-12-08 · ·

A vehicle is provided with a vehicle body, N (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2) wheels including one or more front wheels and one or more rear wheels, a force generator, and a force controller. The N wheels include one or more turn wheels turnable in the width direction of the vehicle. The force generator is configured to generate a force which changes a yaw angular acceleration. The force controller is configured to control the force generator. A gravity center of the vehicle body is located away from a rotation center of the vehicle toward front side or rear side when the vehicle turns. The force controller controls the force generator to control a roll torque in the width direction acting on the vehicle body.

STEERING SYSTEM
20220379957 · 2022-12-01 · ·

A steer-by-wire steering system, including: a pair of wheel steering devices respectively provided for right and left wheels of a vehicle, each of the pair of wheel steering devices including an actuator and configured to steer a corresponding one of the right and left wheels independently of the other of the right and left wheels; and a controller configured to control the pair of wheel steering devices such that steering amounts of the respective right and left wheels are equal to respective amounts based on a steering request, wherein the controller executes a steering-amount stabilizing control to reduce a change in the steering amounts in an external-force-dependent steering situation in which the right and left wheels are steered or likely to be steered by an external force applied to the right and left wheels.

LATERAL MOTION CONTROL FOR VEHICLE, AUTOMATIC DRIVING CONTROLLER, STEERING SYSTEM, VEHICLE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
20220371654 · 2022-11-24 ·

The application relates to a lateral motion control method and system for a vehicle, an automatic driving controller, a steering system, a vehicle, and a storage medium, wherein the lateral motion control method for the vehicle comprises: generating and outputting a steering control command according to a desired track of the vehicle, such that the vehicle moves along an actual track according to the steering control command; determining a vehicle running state, wherein the vehicle running state is generated according to an error value between the desired track and the actual track; and determining whether to stop/limit outputting of the steering control command or not according to the vehicle running state. The lateral motion of the vehicle can be controlled according to the method.

ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SCORING DRIVING BEHAVIOR USING VEHICLE INPUTS AND OUTPUTS
20220374745 · 2022-11-24 ·

A method for scoring driving behavior using vehicle inputs and outputs is implemented in an electronic device. The method includes obtaining historical input data and output data of a vehicle; establishing an output regression model according to the historical output data; determining a boundary of the output regression model; establishing an input regression model according to the historical input data; determining a boundary of the input regression model by calculating boundary limits of the input regression model; obtaining real-time input data and output data of the vehicle; calculating a first ratio of data points outside the boundary of the input regression model to total data points in the real-time input data, and a second ratio of data points outside the boundary of the output regression model to total data points in the real-time output data; scoring driving behavior of a driver according to the first ratio and the second ratio.

METHOD TO CONTROL A ROAD VEHICLE WITH REAR STEERING WHEELS
20220363311 · 2022-11-17 ·

A method to control a road vehicle with rear steering wheels and having, while driving along a curve, the steps of: determining a desired steering angle for the rear wheels; comparing the desired steering angle with a threshold value; applying, while driving along a curve and if the desired steering angle is greater than the threshold value, to both rear wheels a same actual steering angle that is equal to the desired steering angle; and applying, while driving along a curve and if the desired steering angle is smaller than the threshold value, to a rear wheel on the outside of the curve an actual steering angle greater than the desired steering angle and applying to a rear wheel on the inside of the curve a zero actual steering angle.

Steering control system
20220363243 · 2022-11-17 ·

The present disclosure relates to a steering control system for a vehicle, a vehicle comprising such a steering control system and a method for operating such a steering control system for a vehicle. The steering control system comprises a frequency filter unit, a first control unit, and a second control unit. The frequency filter unit comprises a high pass filter and a low pass filter. The frequency filter unit is configured to receive a request for a steering angle and filter the request into a low-pass filtered request and a high-pass filtered request. The first control unit is configured to determine a first controlling torque based on the low-pass filtered request the second control unit is configured to determine a second controlling torque based on the high-pass filtered request. The first control unit is different of the second control unit.

Control device, steering device, control method, and recording medium
11584429 · 2023-02-21 · ·

A control device of a steering device, for a vehicle, which includes left and right steering mechanisms not mechanically coupled to each other, and which steers left and right steered wheels individually by driving force of steering actuators, includes: a steered angle determining unit that determines a target steered angle for each of the left and right steering mechanisms; and a steering command unit that generates drive signals corresponding to the target steered angles, and outputs the drive signals to each of the actuators. When an anomaly occurs in one of the left and right steering mechanisms, the steered angle determining unit sets the target steered angle for the steering mechanisms that is normal to be different from the target steered angle when both the left and right steering mechanisms are normal.

System for a Vehicle that Compensates for Vehicle Spin
20220355855 · 2022-11-10 · ·

A system of an electric vehicle configured to compensate for spin of the electric vehicle that results from slipping of one or more wheels. A controller detects when one or more wheels are slipping and/or a spin (e.g., rotation) of the electric vehicle that results from a torsion force as a result of the slipping. The controller instructs the steering system to orient one or more of the wheels that are not slipping in a direction opposite the direction of rotation to attempt to reduce or eliminate rotation of the electric vehicle and/or to maintain the present direction of travel.

Work Vehicle
20220348189 · 2022-11-03 ·

A work vehicle includes: a body; a traveling apparatus capable of a turning travel; a speed detector capable of detecting a vehicle speed; a steering tool manually operable to steer the traveling apparatus; a notification apparatus; and a controller. The controller is configured or programmed to control the traveling apparatus in response to a manual operation, with use of a travel control module; determine, based on a relationship between the vehicle speed and a steering angle of the steering tool, whether at least one of the vehicle speed and the steering angle needs to be reduced, with use of a determination module; and control the notification apparatus to give a notification of the determination by the determination module, with use of a notification module.