Turn behavior control system of vehicle adaptable to external conditions

• US 5,717,591 A
• Filed: 08/30/1995
• Issued: 02/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoneyama, Masatoshi, Okada, Akio
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TAN QUANG
• Application Number:
  US08/521,427
• Time in Patent Office: 895 Days
• Field of Search: 364/426.03, 364/426.015, 364/426.016, 364/426.017, 364/426.027, 180/197, 180/415, 180/422, 303/141, 303/146, 303/163, 303/139, 303/140
• US Class Current: 701/82
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2230/02 Side slip angle, attitude angle, floating angle, drift angle
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1755 Brake regulation specially adapted to control the stability of the vehicle, e.g. taking into account yaw rate or transverse acceleration in a curve road vehicle drive control systems for control of driving stability otherwise than by controlling a particular sub-unit B60W30/02
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/246 Change of direction
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/348 4 Channel systems B60T8/345 takes precedence

Abstract

A turn behavior control system continually modifies its control performance by itself so as to adapt itself to varying external conditions such as curving and surface conditions of the road and the driving skill of the driver, according to study of the turn behavior of the vehicle controlled thereby under the influence of those external conditions, such that an anti-spin moment is generated according to a spin parameter estimating the spinning condition of the vehicle when the spin parameter exceeds a standard value which is reviewed by each unit period to be lowered as the frequency of operation of the control system during the unit period increases or to be raised as the time based integration of the spin value during the unit period increases, or the anti-spin moment is increased as the friction coefficient of the road surface lowers.

Claims

1. A turn behavior control system of a vehicle having front left, front right, rear left and rear right wheel cylinders for respectively independently braking front left, front right, rear left, and rear right wheels thereof, comprising:

means for estimating a spinning condition of the vehicle based upon at least one operation parameter of the vehicle to generate a spin parameter;

means for generating an anti-spin moment in the vehicle by relative operation of the front left, front right, rear left and rear right wheel cylinders; and

means for controlling said anti-spin moment generation means according to said spin parameter, wherein said control means starts operation of said anti-spin moment generation means when said spin parameter exceeds a threshold value therefor, with reviewing said threshold value at each unit period to be lowered as frequency of operation of said anti-spin moment generating means during a preceding unit period increases.

2. The turn behavior control system according to claim 1, wherein said control means reviews said threshold value to each unit period to be raised as the frequency of operation of said anti-spin moment generation means during a preceding unit period decreases.

3. The turn behavior control system according to claim 1, wherein said control means integrates a maximum value of absolute values of said spin parameter at each operation of said turn behavior control during each unit period, and despatches a signal for warning when an integrated value exceeds a determinate standard value.

4. A turn behavior control system of a vehicle having front left, front right, rear left and rear right wheel cylinders for respectively independently braking front left, front right, rear left, and rear right vehicle wheels thereof, comprising:

means for estimating a spinning condition of the vehicle based upon at least one operation parameter of the vehicle to generate a spin parameter;

means for generating an anti-spin moment in the vehicle by relative operation of the front left, front right, rear left and rear right wheel cylinders; and

means for controlling said anti-spin moment generation means according to said spin parameter, wherein said control means starts operation of said anti-spin moment generation means when said spin parameter exceeds a threshold value therefor, with reviewing said threshold value at each unit period to be raised as an integration value of an absolute value of said spin parameter during a preceding unit period increases.

5. The turn behavior control system according to claim 4, wherein, said control means reviews said threshold value at each unit period to be lowered as an integration value of the absolute value of said spin parameter during a preceding unit period decreases.

6. A turn behavior control system of a vehicle having front left, front right, rear left and rear right wheel cylinders for respectively independently braking front left, front right, rear left, and rear right wheels thereof, comprising:

means for estimating a spinning condition of the vehicle based upon at least one operation parameter of the vehicle to generate a spin parameter;

means for generating an anti-spin moment in the vehicle by relative operation of the front left, front right, rear left and rear right wheel cylinders; and

means for controlling said anti-spin moment generation means according to said spin parameter, wherein said control means controls operation of said anti-spin moment generation means so as to magnify a generation of said anti-spin moment according to an increasing rate of said spin parameter.

7. The turn behavior control system according to claim 6, wherein, said control means controls the operation of said anti-spin moment generation means so as to attenuate the generation of said anti-spin moment according to a decreasing rate of said spin parameter.