Traction based systems and methods
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsDavid Karl Bidner, Timothy Joseph Clark
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Abstract
A first vehicle includes: steering, brakes, memory, sensors, and processor(s) configured to: determine, with the sensors: the first vehicle's acceleration, a second vehicle's acceleration; compute a theoretical collision velocity (TCV) between the first vehicle and the second vehicle based on the accelerations; apply a function or generate a command based on the TCV and a selected coefficient of kinetic friction (COF).
Claims20
A first vehicle comprising:
- steering, brakes, memory, sensors, and processor(s) configured to:
- determine, with the sensors:
- the first vehicle's acceleration, a second vehicle's acceleration;
- compute a theoretical collision velocity (TCV) between the first vehicle and the second vehicle based on the accelerations;
- generate a command based on the TCV and a selected coefficient of kinetic friction (COF).
A first vehicle comprising:
- steering, brakes, memory, sensors, and processor(s) configured to:
- determine, with the sensors:
- the first vehicle's acceleration, a second vehicle's acceleration;
- compute a theoretical collision velocity (TCV) between the first vehicle and the second vehicle based on the accelerations;
- generate a command based on the TCV.
A method of controlling a first vehicle that has steering, brakes, memory, and processor(s), the method comprising, with the processors:
- determining, with the sensors:
- the first vehicle's acceleration, a second vehicle's acceleration;
- computing a theoretical collision velocity (TCV) between the first vehicle and the second vehicle based on the accelerations;
- generating a command based on the TCV and a selected coefficient of kinetic friction (COF).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.