Diagnosis monitoring device for yaw rate sensor

• US 7,353,096 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2005
• Issued: 04/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Subaru Corp.
• Original Assignee: Fuji Heavy Industries Limited (Subaru Corp.)
• Inventors: Hayashi, Noritaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Dalena
• Application Number:
  US11/192,176
• Publication Number:
  US 20060025910A1
• Time in Patent Office: 977 Days
• Field of Search: 701/34, 701/70, 701/29, 701/31, 701/36, 701/41, 701/72, 701/74, 701/92, 701/76, 701/82, 303/139, 303/140, 303/146, 303/147, 303/148
• US Class Current: 701/34
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2250/03 Vehicle yaw rate
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2270/413 Plausibility monitoring, cross check, redundancy
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/885 using electrical circuitry

Abstract

A yaw rate sensor failure diagnosing device judges whether the yaw rate sensor is failure or not. In particular, when the vehicle is in the steady turn state, the failure is judged by comparing a yaw rate value from the yaw rate sensor with a yaw rate value calculated on the basis of the value of the tire force acting on each wheel. Furthermore, the vehicle is in the non-steady turn state, the failure is judged by comparing a yaw moment value calculated from the yaw rate value from the yaw rate sensor with a yaw moment value calculated on the basis of the value of the tire force acting on each wheel.

Claims

1. A yaw rate sensor failure detecting device comprising:

a yaw rate sensor for detecting a yaw rate;

a tire force detecting unit for detecting tire force acting on each wheel;

a vehicle motion state judging unit for judging a steady turn state and a non-steady turn state on the basis of the tire force acting on each wheel;

a yaw rate comparing and abnormality judging unit for comparing a yaw rate value from the yaw rate sensor with a yaw rate value calculated on the basis of the value of the tire force acting on each wheel when the vehicle is in the steady turn state and judging abnormality of the yaw rate sensor; and

a yaw moment comparing and abnormality judging unit for comparing a yaw moment value calculated from the yaw rate value from the yaw rate sensor with a yaw moment value calculated on the basis of the value of the tire force acting on each wheel when the vehicle is in the non-steady turn state and judging abnormality of the yaw rate sensor.

2. The yaw rate sensor failure diagnosing device according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle motion state judging unit judges a straight going state of the vehicle on the basis of the tire force acting on each wheel, and the yaw rate comparing and abnormality judging unit compares a yaw rate value from the yaw rate sensor with a preset value when the vehicle in the straight going state, and judges abnormality of the yaw rate sensor on the basis of the comparison result.

3. The yaw rate sensor failure diagnosing device according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle motion state judging unit judges the straight going state when the total of the lateral forces of the right and left wheels is smaller than a preset value, judges the steady turn state when no yaw moment occurs in the vehicle and it is regarded that no longitudinal force occurs and also the total of the lateral forces of each wheel exceeds the preset value, and judges as the non-steady turn state the state that the yaw moment occurs in the vehicle.

4. The yaw rate sensor failure diagnosing device according to claim 1, wherein the yaw moment comparing and abnormality judging unit calculates the correlation between the yaw moment value calculated from the yaw rate from the yaw rate sensor and the yaw moment value calculated on the basis of the value of the tire force acting on each wheel from the yaw moment values, when the vehicle is in the non-steady turn state and judging abnormality of the yaw rate sensor in accordance with the value of the correlation coefficient.

5. A yaw rate sensor failure diagnosing device comprising:

a yaw rate sensor for detecting a yaw rate;

a tire force detecting unit for detecting tire force acting on each wheel of the vehicle;

a vehicle motion state judging unit for judging a non-steady turn state of the vehicle on the basis of the tire force acting on each wheel; and

a yaw moment comparing and abnormality judging unit for comparing a yaw moment value calculated from a yaw rate value from the yaw rate sensor with a yaw moment value calculated from the value of the tire force acting on each wheel when the vehicle is in the non-steady turn state, and judging abnormality of the yaw rate sensor.

6. The yaw rate sensor failure diagnosing device according to claim 5, wherein the yaw moment comparing and abnormality judging unit calculates the correlation coefficient between the yaw moment value calculated from the yaw rate value from the yaw rate sensor and the yaw moment value calculated on the basis of the value of the force acting on each wheel when the vehicle is in the non-steady turn state, and judges abnormality of the yaw rate sensor in accordance with the value of the correlation coefficient.