Device for and method of controlling vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorManabu Nagasaka
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A device 10 for controlling a vehicle 1 includes: a sensor 20 configured to detect a rudder angle; a calculation part 40a configured to calculate a target braking force for making a pitch angle equal to a target pitch angle, the target braking force increasing as the rudder angle increases; a determination part 40b configured to determine whether a steering action is in a steady state; a correction part 40c configured to correct the target braking force to be reduced by an offset amount when it is determined that the steering action is in a steady state; and an actuator 30 configured to apply the corrected target braking force to the vehicle.
Claims8
A device for controlling a vehicle, comprising:
- a sensor configured to detect a steering angle;
- a processor configured to:
- calculate a target braking force for applying a target change to an actual pitch angle to achieve a target pitch angle, the target braking force calculated to be proportional to the target change in pitch angle,
- determine whether the steering angle is constant, and
- calculate a corrected target braking force by reducing the target braking force by an offset amount based on the determination whether the steering angle is constant;
- and
- an actuator configured to apply the corrected target braking force to the vehicle.
A method of controlling a vehicle, comprising:
- by a sensor, detecting a steering angle;
- by a processor:
- calculating a target braking force for applying a target change to an actual pitch angle to achieve a target pitch angle, the target braking force calculated to be proportional to the target change in pitch angle,
- determining whether the steering angle is constant, and
- calculating a corrected target braking force by reducing the target braking force by an offset amount based on the determination whether the steering angle is constant;
- and
- by an actuator, applying the corrected target braking force to the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.