Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce driver's discomfort feeling at the time of steering operation caused by a certain offset left in a steering device after a steering transmission ratio is changed by a steering transmission ratio variable type steering device. SOLUTION: In the case that an offset state occurs under a specified control for changing a steering transmission ratio by the steering transmission ratio variable type steering device 14 (S180 to 200), a steering position of a steering wheel 20 where the specified control is terminated is defined as a reference steering position, one of the two steering regions at both sides of the reference steering position that is the same side as that of the offset in respect to a vehicle straight forwarding position of the steering wheel 20 is defined as a first steering region and a steering transmission ratio under a zero offset is defined as a standard steering transmission ratio. In the case when a driver performs a steering operation at the first steering region after completion of the specified control (S160), a desired steering gear ratio Rst is made smaller than its standard value (S210) to cause the steering transmission ratio to be larger than the standard steering transmission ratio. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the operability of drive of a vehicle into a parking section by automatically changing a steering gear ratio of a steering device according to a relative position of the vehicle relative to the parking section when the vehicle is driven into the parking section by backward traveling. SOLUTION: The parking section spreading to a rear side of the vehicle is visually recognized by a video camera provided on a rear part of the vehicle, lateral deviation of the center of a rear part of the vehicle relative to a central line between both side edges of the parking section is calculated by stereo-graphic image processing based on the visually recognized image, and a steering gear ratio is increased accompanying with reduction of the lateral deviation. Further, a deflection angle of the video camera relative to both side edges and vertical deviation of the video camera relative to a rear wheel stop are also calculated, and the steering gear ratio is increased accompanying with reduction of those values. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a travelling control device of a vehicle which turns the vehicle as desired by a driver as much as possible while satisfying a sudden braking demand of the driver even when sudden braking operation and steering operation are carried out by the driver. SOLUTION: An index value Ks of possibility of emergency avoiding steering by the driver is computed so as to be the higher the larger a rate of increase ΔPm of master cylinder pressure is (S270) when brake assist control is carried out (S220) and it is determined that there is a possibility of the emergency avoiding steering of the driver (S240), a target roll rigidity distribution rate Rsft of a front wheel is computed to be the smaller the higher the index value Ks is (S300), and a front and rear wheel distribution rate of roll rigidity is controlled to the rear wheel side more, higher the possibility of the emergency avoiding steering is, and a steering characteristic of the vehicle is changed to the over-steering side, since active stabilizer devices 16 and 18 are controlled in accordance with the target rigidity distribution rate Rsft of the front wheel (S310). COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a braking force control system capable of suppressing a detection error of a vehicle velocity.SOLUTION: A control unit that controls a braking force on the basis of a vehicle velocity calculated from a wheel speed is included. When a wheel speed of a predetermined driving wheel that is a driving wheel whose wheel speed is the highest tends to increase and a wheel speed of three wheels other than the predetermined driving wheel tends to decrease (S10-Y), the vehicle velocity is calculated with the wheel speed of the predetermined driving wheel excluded (S40). When the vehicle velocity is calculated with the wheel speed of the predetermined wheel excluded (S10-Y and S20-Y), a maximum value of a wheel speed of a rolling wheel may be adopted as the vehicle velocity.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry out accurate braking force control.SOLUTION: An electronic control device 1 includes: a braking force control portion for controlling the braking force of a vehicle on the basis of wheel speed; a wheel speed correcting portion for correcting the detected wheel speed of a wheel on the basis of the wheel speed and wheel speed of another wheel; a slope determining portion for determining whether a traveling path of an own vehicle is a slope or not by using the detected vehicle body acceleration/deceleration; and a correction prohibiting portion for prohibiting the correction of the wheel speed when the own vehicle travels on the slope. The slope determining portion determines whether the traveling path of the own vehicle is a slope or not, on the basis of traveling path information of the own vehicle possessed by the own vehicle or obtained by communicating with the outside, when the detection accuracy of the vehicle body acceleration/deceleration is deteriorated.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control system that can properly execute recovery from a failure state to a normal state in the vehicle control by a plurality of arithmetic control devices, and to provide a vehicle control method.SOLUTION: The vehicle control system includes a first arithmetic control device and a second arithmetic control device that are connected to each other to be in communication with each other through a communication means. The second arithmetic control device transmits a monitoring result indicating a normal communication state to the first arithmetic control device when a difference between a first target control amount calculated by the first arithmetic control device and a second target control amount calculated by the second arithmetic control device is equal to or lower than a first threshold. The first arithmetic control device allows the second arithmetic control device to execute steering control when determining that the monitoring result transmitted by the second arithmetic control device is normal and the first target control amount is equal to or lower than a second threshold.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively utilize various kinds of rear wheel steering angle control related to stabilization of vehicle behavior.SOLUTION: The vehicle steering control apparatus controls a vehicle that can vary a steering angle δr of a rear wheels via a variable rear wheels steering angle device. The vehicle steering control apparatus includes: a specification unit for specifying a slip angle βr of the rear wheels; a determination unit for determining reliability of the specified slip angle; and a control unit for restricting the change in the steering angle of the rear wheel in a direction where the slip angle increases based on the specified slip angle and the determined reliability.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To terminate the direction indicating operation of a direction indicator with exact timing in a vehicle mounted with a steering mechanism having a variable relation between a steering angle and an actual steering angle. SOLUTION: The vehicle includes the steering mechanism, an EPS actuator, and a VGRS actuator, and variably controls the relation between the steering angle MA and the actual steering angle δst by the cooperative control of them. An ECU carries out winker-off control. In the control, when a winker lever is operated, an actual steering corresponding angle δ is calculated based on a steering gear ratio n, a wheelbase L, a stability factor KH, a yaw rate γ, and vehicle speed V. When the calculated actual steering corresponding angle δ exceeds a preset threshold to a decreasing side, the ECU carries out winker-off processing including returning to a neutral position by the release of the winker lever and the termination of the blinking control of a direction indicating light. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively curb operation of a steering wheel caused by torque-steering independently from a driver's steering condition. SOLUTION: An ECU 100 executes torque-steering suppression processing in a vehicle 10 equipped with an EPS 200. In this processing, when the vehicle 10 is accelerating and the steering wheel 11 is in a hand-releasing state, assist torque ATRQ 1 at hand-releasing is output from a motor 17. When the steering wheel 11 is not in the hand-releasing state and predetermined permission conditions are satisfied, assist torque ATRQ 2 at steering is output from the motor 17 to compensate returning defects of the steering wheel 11 within the range of not inhibiting the steering operation by the driver. When steering is input while assist torque at the hand-releasing is output, switch processing is performed in accordance with each of turn and turn-back and the assist torque is gradually changed so as to suppress a sense of incongruity. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively reduce the deterioration of tires and further suppress a decrease in tire internal air pressure while preventing a variation in the steering characteristic of a vehicle. SOLUTION: It is determined whether or not the tire internal air pressure Pwti is lower than a reference value Pwtei calculated based on a tire internal air pressure drop rate RPwti, so that it may be determined whether or not the tire air pressure is decreased (S20 to 40). When one of the tire internal air pressures of wheels is decreased, a reduction degree of the tire internal air pressure and a required travel distance L to reach a position where the vehicle can be safely stopped are calculated by a navigation system 60, and a control gain Kct is calculated corresponding to the required traveling distance L (S100). The control amount of steering gear ratio control for controlling a change in the steering characteristic of the vehicle caused by the ground contact load reduction control of the wheels in which the tire internal air pressure is decreased and the change of the ground contact load is increased and decreased corresponding to the control gain Kct (S200, 300). COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT