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US 2014/0005890 A1Published application
Control Apparatus Applying Arbitration To Plurality Of Received Control Requests
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorHideaki TANAKA
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Abstract
A control apparatus for a vehicle can receive a plurality of control requests each expressing a requested position and requested attitude angle for the vehicle, the control requests originating from respective control request apparatuses such as driver assistance apparatuses. The control apparatus executes arbitration to select one of the control requests, which is then converted to a corresponding yaw rate control request. The converted yaw rate control request is supplied to a yaw rate control apparatus, which controls the vehicle motion accordingly.
Claims6
A control apparatus for installation on a vehicle, comprising:
- an arbitration section coupled to receive a plurality of position/attitude control requests produced respectively from a plurality of control request apparatuses, and for selecting and outputting one of the position/attitude control requests, each of the position/attitude control requests expressing a position control request and an attitude angle control request;
- a first conversion section, configured for converting the selected position/attitude control request to a converted yaw rate control request;
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- a yaw rate control apparatus configured to receive the converted yaw rate control request and to effect yaw rate control of the vehicle in accordance with the received request.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.