Abstract:
An AFS control system that combines and weights yaw rate feedback and side-slip rate feedback to provide increased vehicle stability enhancement control. The AFS system includes a yaw rate sub-system that generates a desired yaw rate signal. The AFS system also includes a side-slip rate sub-system that generates a desired side-slip rate feedback signal. The AFS system further includes a side-slip rate feedback sub-system that generates a side-slip rate feedback signal. The AFS system also includes a yaw rate feedback sub-system that generates a yaw rate feedback signal. The yaw rate feedback signal and the side-slip rate feedback signal are integrated in a control integration sub-system that generates a stability enhancement control signal. The control integration sub-system determines whether the vehicle is in an oversteer or understeer condition, and weights the desired yaw rate feedback signal accordingly based on the vehicle condition.
Abstract:
The onset of an excessive slip condition in a slip controller is determined so that it is adaptable to the actual drive torque conditions between the driven wheel and the road surface so as to achieve the desired acceleration or braking characteristics for all vehicle driving conditions including while the vehicle is traveling on a curved road surface. At low vehicle speeds, slip control is enabled when the value of a predetermined function of the difference in speeds of the driven and undriven wheels exceeds a threshold that is a function of the vehicle turn radius and at high vehicle speeds when the value of a predetermined function of a wheel slip ratio exceeds the threshold that is a function of the vehicle turn radius. The vehicle speed below which slip control is enabled based on a wheel speed function and above which traction control is enabled based on the wheel slip function increases with an increasing vehicle steering angle.
Abstract:
A vehicle traction control system includes both driven wheel brake control and engine torque output control for limiting acceleration wheel slip. A boundary condition is identified where engine torque output control alone can be used without braking to regulate the acceleration wheel slip to any desired value. When the traction control system determines that the boundary condition is not exceeded such that engine torque output control alone is capable of preventing an excessive slip condition, only engine torque is controlled to limit wheel slip. However, when the system determines the boundary condition is such that engine torque output control alone will not prevent an excessive slip condition, the brakes of the slipping wheel is then additionally controlled to limit acceleration wheel spin.
Abstract:
A method for preventing excessive spin to the driven wheels of a vehicle by determining the value of slip where the wheel/road tractive force is maximized for the particular coefficient friction road operating surface. The reaction torque, as translated through the differential, is considered and wheel control is therefore optimized based upon individual wheel acceleration characteristics and cross-differential torque transfer.