Vehicle stability control system

• US 7,577,504 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2005
• Issued: 08/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Sawada, Mamoru, Matsumoto, Toshiki
• Primary Examiner(s): Keith; Jack W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dager; Jonathan M
• Application Number:
  US11/076,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20050200088A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,623 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701/40, 701/70, 701/71, 701/72, 701/301
• US Class Current: 701/38
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/04 including control of propulsion units
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/20 Steering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/045 Improving turning performance

Abstract

A vehicle stability control system includes a basic request driving force computing unit, a front and rear wheel load computing unit, a virtual turning radius estimating unit, a target value computing unit, and a vibration damping correction controlling unit. The basic request driving force computing unit computes a physical quantity so as to generate the basic request driving force requested by a driver. The front and rear wheel load computing unit detect a load applied to the wheels. The virtual turning radius estimating unit estimates a virtual turning radius. The target value computing unit computes a target value of a stability factor. The vibration damping correction controlling unit corrects the physical quantity so as to follow the target value. The system generates the driving force for the driving wheel.

Claims

1. A vehicle stability control system, comprising:

a basic request driving force computing unit configured to compute a physical quantity corresponding to a basic request driving force so as to generate the basic request driving force requested by a driver for a driving wheel provided for a vehicle;

a front and rear wheel load computing unit configured to detect a ground load applied to each of front wheels and rear wheels in the vehicle;

a virtual turning radius estimating unit configured to estimate a virtual turning radius in the vehicle;

a target value computing unit configured to compute a target value of a stability factor based on the results of computations in the front and rear wheel load computing unit and the virtual turning radius estimating unit;

a running resistance disturbance estimating unit configured to estimate a running resistance disturbance applied to the wheels in the vehicle; and

a vibration damping correction controlling unit configured to correct a physical quantity corresponding to the basic request driving force computed by the basic request driving force computing unit so as to follow the target value computed by the target value computing unit, wherein

a driving force in accordance with the corrected physical quantity corrected by the vibration damping correction controlling unit is generated for the driving wheel,

the basic request driving force computing unit computes a basic request torque as the physical quantity corresponding to the basic request driving force,

the vibration damping correction controlling unit includes a state equation indicating a state quantity in the vehicle based on a sprung oscillation model in the vehicle and an output equation expressing the stability factor as the state quantity based on the state equation so as to correct the physical quantity corresponding to the basic request driving force based on a difference between the stability factor obtained from the output equation and the state quantity and the target value of the stability factor computed in the target value computing unit, and

the vibration damping correction controlling unit obtains the state quantity in the state equation in view of the running resistance disturbance estimated by the running resistance disturbance estimating unit so as to obtain the stability factor based on the obtained state quantity and the output equation and to obtain a difference between the stability factor and the target value.

2. The vehicle stability control system according to claim 1, wherein the running resistance disturbance estimating unit obtains a running resistance disturbance of the front wheel as the running resistance disturbance, based on a derivative value of a wheel speed of the front wheel provided for the vehicle and the weight of the vehicle.

3. The vehicle stability control system according to claim 1, wherein a difference between the target value of the stability factor and a current actual stability factor is computed, and a correction value of the driving force is obtained by an integral of the difference.

4. The vehicle stability control system according to claim 1, wherein a difference between an estimated axle torque and a corrected value of axle torque is obtained, and the difference is multiplied by a reduction ratio and then subtracted from a requested torque to obtain a corrected torque.

5. The vehicle stability control system according to claim 1, wherein the stability factor is stabilized to provide a turning radius in response to changes in detected by sensors in the vehicle stability control system.