Driver vehicle control assistance
AssigneeMcLaren Automotive Limited
InventorsStefano De Pinto, Aldo Sorniotti
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Abstract
A method for assisting a driver in controlling a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a road wheel and at least one vehicle sensor configured to provide vehicle condition data, the road wheel comprising a tyre sensor configured to output tyre operation data, the method comprising: receiving tyre operation data from the tyre sensor during the vehicle being controlled along at least one lap of a track; receiving vehicle condition data from at least one vehicle sensor during the vehicle being controlled along at least one lap of the track; determining, based on the tyre operation data and vehicle condition data, an intervention the driver should make during a future lap of the track; and communicating the intervention to the driver.
Claims23
A method for assisting a driver in controlling a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a road wheel and at least one vehicle sensor configured to provide vehicle condition data, the road wheel comprising a tyre sensor configured to output tyre operation data, the method comprising:
- receiving tyre operation data from the tyre sensor during the vehicle being controlled along at least one lap of a track, the tyre operation data comprising contact patch longitudinal load and contact patch radial load;
- receiving vehicle condition data from at least one vehicle sensor during the vehicle being controlled along at least one lap of the track;
- determining, based on the tyre operation data and vehicle condition data, an intervention the driver should make during a future lap of the track;
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- communicating the intervention to the driver.
A method for assisting a driver in controlling a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a road wheel and at least one vehicle sensor configured to provide vehicle condition data, the road wheel comprising a tyre sensor configured to output tyre operation data, the method comprising:
- receiving tyre operation data from the tyre sensor during the vehicle being controlled in motion, the tyre operation data comprising contact patch longitudinal load and contact patch radial load;
- receiving vehicle condition data from at least one vehicle sensor during the vehicle being controlled in motion;
- determining, based on the tyre operation data and vehicle condition data, a weather condition around the vehicle;
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- where the weather condition is wet, determining an intervention that should be made to the vehicle.
A method for assisting a driver in controlling a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a road wheel and at least one vehicle sensor configured to provide vehicle condition data, the road wheel comprising a tyre sensor configured to output tyre operation data, the method comprising:
- receiving tyre operation data from the tyre sensor during the vehicle being controlled in motion;
- receiving vehicle condition data from at least one vehicle sensor during the vehicle being controlled in motion;
- determining, based on the tyre operation data and vehicle condition data, a weather condition around the vehicle;
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- where the weather condition is wet, determining an intervention that should be made to the vehicle;
- wherein the intervention is to adjust a vehicle dynamics system to set to a wet weather mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.