Steering control device
AssigneesJtekt Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakashi Kodera, Toru Takashima, Shunsuke Yoshida
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A steering control device configured to control a steering device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to calculate a torque command value which is a target value of the motor torque based on execution of angle control for adjusting a convertible angle which is able to be converted to a rotation angle of the motor to a target angle; calculate the motor control signal based on the torque command value; and change a control gain which is used for the angle control based on a change of a factor influencing a behavior of a vehicle in response to steering.
Claims8
A steering control device configured to control a steering device to which a motor torque is applied from an actuator with a motor as a drive source, the steering control device comprising:
- a control unit configured to output a motor control signal for controlling operation of the motor;
- a drive circuit configured to supply a drive electric power to the motor based on the motor control signal,
- wherein the control unit is configured to:
- calculate a torque command value which is a target value of the motor torque the torque command value is based on execution of angle control for adjusting a convertible angle which is able to be converted to a rotation angle of the motor;
- calculate the motor control signal based on the torque command value;
- and
- change a control gain which is used for the angle control based on a change of a factor influencing a behavior of a vehicle in response to steering, wherein:
- the motor includes a plurality of coil groups with different power supply paths;
- a plurality of groups each including the control unit and the drive circuit is provided such that the groups respectively correspond to the coil groups, a number of the groups being same as a number of the coil groups;
- a plurality of control systems is provided between the motor and the steering control device, the control systems being configured to individually control torques generated by the coil groups;
- and
- the factor includes a drive mode of the motor,
- the drive mode includes
- a cooperative mode in which torques generated by the coil groups of the control systems are controlled based on the torque command value calculated by the control unit of one of the control systems,
- an independent mode in which torque generated by each of the coil groups of the control systems is controlled based on the torque command value calculated by the control unit of a corresponding one of the control systems, and
- a residual mode in which, when one of the control systems is abnormal, torque generated by the coil group of a remainder of the control systems is controlled based on the torque command value calculated by the control unit of the remainder of the control systems, the remainder being normal;
- and
- the control gain changes such that the control gain increases in order of the independent mode, the cooperative mode, and the residual mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.