Method for determining a control standard of an active vehicle steering device controllable by a control device

• US 7,418,327 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2005
• Issued: 08/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Zeppelin - Stiftung der Stadt Friedrichshafen)
• Original Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Zeppelin - Stiftung der Stadt Friedrichshafen)
• Inventors: Rosemeier, Thomas, Pelchen, Christoph, Thies, Andreas
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Khoi H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Peche; Jorge O
• Application Number:
  US11/305,410
• Publication Number:
  US 20060173597A1
• Time in Patent Office: 984 Days
• Field of Search: 701/41, 180/197, 180/246, 180/179, 280/1.202, 340/426.31, 340/465
• US Class Current: 701/41
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/0028 Mathematical models, e.g. for simulation
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/20 Steering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/14 Yaw
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/20 Sideslip angle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2530/20 Tyre data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/18 Steering angle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/045 Improving turning performance
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 6/003 in order to control vehicle yaw movement, i.e. around a vertical axis B62D6/007 takes precedence

Abstract

A method for determining a control standard of an active steering device (10) of a vehicle (1) controllable by a control device (11). A driving dynamic of the vehicle (1) is influenced according to the control standard. The control standard is determined according to a nominal yawing rate calculated at least with reference to different actual operating parameters of the vehicle and one dynamic vehicle state determined according to the nominal yawing rate and actual operating state parameters. The control standard is superimposed on a steering transit angle preset by a driver so that an existing actual yawing rate is changed in direction of the nominal yawing rate.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a yaw rate of a vehicle by determining a steering transit angle change for an active steering device (10) of the vehicle (1) controllable by a control device (11), the method comprising the steps of;

influencing driving dynamics of the vehicle (1) including the yaw rate and steering transit angle change;

determining the steering transit angle change by the steps of;

calculating a nominal yawing rate (φ

_0) according to an initial steering transit angle preset by a driver, static wheel tread forces, and an actual speed of the vehicle without determining longitudinal forces which affect the driving dynamics of the vehicle;

determining a desired steering transit angle by applying the nominal yawing rate (φ

_0) to a dynamic driving state of the vehicle determined according to the actual speed of the vehicle, a longitudinal dynamic wheel tread forces affecting the driving dynamics of the vehicle and the initial steering transit angle;

subtracting the desired steering transit angle from the initial steering transit angle to obtain the steering transit angle change; and

superimposing the steering transit angle change on the steering transit angle (δ

_0) preset by the driver so that an actual yawing rate is reduced towards the nominal yawing rate (φ

_0).

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of calculating the nominal yawing rate (φ

_0) with a computer algorithm embodied as one-track vehicle pattern in which two tracks of a vehicle are by computation reproduced as one track.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising the step of designing the computer algorithm as one of a linearized or a non-linearized one-track vehicle.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of calculating the nominal yawing rate (φ

_0) with a computer algorithm designed as full vehicle pattern by way of which a vehicle having two tracks is theoretically reproduced.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of storing an operating strategy as predefined characteristic values stored in a characteristic field which corresponding to the existing actual operating state parameters (v_fzg, F_AS_2A to F_AS_3B, δ

_0) are each stored as input operands for the computer algorithms in the control device (11).

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of determining the dynamic driving state of the vehicle (1) according to the vehicle speed (v_fzg), dynamic wheel tread forces (F_AD_2A to F_AD_3B) and one steering transit angle (δ

_0) requested by the driver.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of determining the dynamic vehicle state by way of a linearized one-track vehicle pattern at the operating point actually basis of the calculation in which the two tracks of the vehicle are reproduced by computer as one track.

8. A method of controlling an active steering device of a motor vehicle to effect an actual vehicle yawing rate, the method comprising the steps of:

determining a control factor for controlling the active steering device by the steps of;

measuring a plurality of actual vehicle operating parameters resulting from a driver requested steering transit angle, and storing the plurality of actual vehicle operating parameters in a computer;

calculating a nominal yawing rate of the vehicle as a function of the driver requested steering transit angle, static wheel tread forces, and an actual speed of the vehicle without measurement of any longitudinal forces which affect the driving dynamics of the vehicle;

determining a desired steering transit angle in accordance with the nominal yawing rate, the driver requested steering transit angle, the actual speed of the vehicle and longitudinal dynamic wheel tread forces affecting the driving dynamics of the vehicle;

deriving the control factor for controlling the active steering device in the dynamic vehicle operating state by determining a difference between the desired steering transit angle and the driver requested steering transit angle; and

modifying the driver requested steering transit angle according to the determined control factor to adjust the actual yawing rate of the vehicle closer to the nominal yawing rate.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the step of calculating the nominal yawing rate (φ

_0) with a computer algorithm embodied as one-track vehicle pattern in which two tracks of a vehicle are by computation reproduced as one track.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the step of designing the computer algorithm as one of a linearized or a non-linearized one-track vehicle.

11. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the step of calculating the nominal yawing rate (φ

_0) with a computer algorithm designed as full vehicle pattern by way of which a vehicle having two tracks is theoretically reproduced.

12. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the step of storing the operating strategy as predefine characteristic values stored in a characteristic field which corresponding to the existing actual operating state parameters (v_fzg, F_AS_2A to F_AS_3B, δ

_0) are each stored as input operands for the computer algorithms in the control device (11).

13. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the step of determing the dynamic driving state of the vehicle (1) according to the vehicle speed (v_fzg), dynamic wheel tread forces (F_AD_2A to F_AD_3B) and one steering transit angle (δ

_0) requested by the driver.

14. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the step of determining the dynamic vehicle state by way of a linearized one-track vehicle pattern at the operating point actually basis of the calculation in which the two tracks of the vehicle are reproduced by computer as one track.