Wheel speed velocity variation scaling system

• US 9,187,119 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2012
• Issued: 11/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation (Nexteer Automotive Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation (Nexteer Automotive Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Champagne, Anthony J., Hales, Michael K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Amin, Bhavesh V
• Application Number:
  US13/535,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20130158805A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,237 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701 41- 44, 701/48
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 5/0472 for damping vibrations

Abstract

A control system for a power steering system is provided. The control system includes a scaling module for calculating a scale factor based on a wheel frequency. The control system also includes a command module that evaluates a wheel disturbance based on a wheel speed and that determines a wheel disturbance cancel amount based on the wheel speed. The command module generates an assist command to the power steering system based on the wheel disturbance cancel amount and the scale factor.

Claims

1. A control system for a power steering system, comprising:

a scaling module for calculating a scale factor based on a wheel frequency; and

a command module that evaluates a wheel disturbance based on a wheel speed sensed by a wheel speed sensor and determines a wheel disturbance cancel amount based on the wheel speed, the command module further generates an assist command output to control the power steering system, the assist command is based on the wheel disturbance cancel amount and the scale factor, the scaling module further determines the scale factor based on a current magnitude, the current magnitude being based on a filtered wheel speed.

2. The control system as recited in claim 1, comprising a frequency estimation module, wherein the frequency estimation module receives the wheel speed and determines the wheel frequency based on the wheel speed.

3. The control system as recited in claim 2, wherein the wheel frequency is calculated based on the following equation:

wheel frequency=K/(2*π

), wherein K is a numerical value that represents an order of disturbance.

4. The control system as recited in claim 1, wherein the scaling module determines a enable signal that is based on an average value of a left wheel frequency and a right wheel frequency.

5. The control system as recited in claim 1, wherein the current magnitude is determined by calculating an absolute value of the filtered wheel speed, applying a low pass filter to the absolute value of the filtered wheel speed, and multiplying the absolute value of the filtered wheel speed by a scale factor.

10. The control system as recited in claim 1, comprising a wheel speed conditioning module that receives the wheel speed and the wheel frequency, and generates a filtered speed based on the wheel frequency.

12. The control system as recited in claim 1, wherein the scaling module determines a right scale factor based on a right wheel frequency and a left scale factor based on a left wheel frequency.

13. The control system as recited in claim 1, wherein the assist command is based on a handwheel torque and an assist value.

6. A control system for a power steering system, comprising:

a scaling module for calculating a scale factor based on a wheel frequency; and

a command module that evaluates a wheel disturbance based on a wheel speed sensed by a wheel sensor and determines a wheel disturbance cancel amount based on the wheel speed, the command module further generates an assist command output to control the power steering system, the assist command is based on the wheel disturbance cancel amount and the scale factor and wherein the scaling module further determines the scale factor based on a current magnitude, wherein the current magnitude is based on a filtered wheel speed, the current magnitude being sent to a rate limiter and compared to an auto scale target value, wherein the auto scale target value represents a maximum allowed variation in the wheel speed.

7. The control system as recited in claim 6, wherein an output from the rate limiter is compared to the auto scale target value, and the greater of the output from the rate limiter and the auto scale target value is used as a divisor, wherein the wheel sensor is a wheel speed sensor.

8. The control system as recited in claim 7, wherein the auto scale target value is divided by the divisor to determine a dividend, and wherein if an enable signal determined by the scaling module is greater than zero, then the dividend value is sent to a switch.

9. The control system as recited in claim 8, wherein an auto scale enable value is used to activate scaling of the wheel speed, wherein the auto scale enable value is sent to the switch.

11. A control system for a power steering system, comprising:

a scaling module for calculating a scale factor based on a wheel frequency; and

a command module that evaluates a wheel disturbance based on a wheel speed sensed by a wheel speed sensor and determines a wheel disturbance cancel amount based on the wheel speed, the command module further generates an assist command output to control the power steering system, the assist command is based on the wheel disturbance cancel amount and the scale factor, the scale factor being based on an angular velocity (VAV) amplitude and an auto scale target value, wherein the auto scale target value is divided by the VAV amplitude, wherein the auto scale target value represents an allowed variation in the wheel speed.

14. A control system for a power steering system, comprising:

a frequency estimation module for calculating a wheel frequency based on a wheel speed sensed by a wheel speed sensor;

a scaling module for calculating a scale factor based on the wheel frequency;

a command module that evaluates a wheel disturbance based on the wheel speed sensed by the wheel speed sensor and determines a wheel disturbance cancel amount based on the wheel speed, the command module generates an assist command output to control the power steering system, the assist command is based on the wheel disturbance cancel amount and the scale factor, the scaling module determining the scale factor based on a current magnitude, the current magnitude is based on a filtered wheel speed, the current magnitude is sent to a rate limiter and compared to an auto scale target value, the auto scale target value represents an allowed variation in the wheel speed.

15. The control system as recited in claim 14, wherein the wheel frequency is calculated based on the following equation:

wheel frequency=K/(2*π

), wherein K is a numerical value that represents an order of disturbance.

16. The control system as recited in claim 14, wherein the scaling module determines a enable signal that is based on an average value of a left wheel frequency and a right wheel frequency.

17. The control system as recited in claim 14, wherein the current magnitude is determined by calculating an absolute value of the filtered wheel speed, applying a low pass filter to the absolute value of the filtered wheel speed, and multiplying the absolute value of the filtered wheel speed by a scale factor.