Drive mode control
AssigneeJaguar Land Rover Limited
InventorsJack WRIGHT, Michael BOYD, Thomas PAPANIKOLAOU, William WARD
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Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a control system for controlling drive modes of a vehicle, and to a related drive mode system, drive mode selection system, method and vehicle. The control system may be configured to determine a control signal based on a temperature signal indicating that a temperature associated with a first system of the vehicle is above a first threshold and below a second threshold; and output the control signal wherein the control signal is indicative of an instruction to the first system to implement a default mode of a plurality of first system modes.
Claims16
A control system for a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a drive mode selection system, a suspension system, and a suspension system controller,
- wherein the drive mode selection system is configured to select, based on a sensed terrain type local to the vehicle, a drive mode of a plurality of drive modes of the vehicle, wherein the suspension system controller is configured to select, based on the selected drive mode, a suspension system mode of a plurality of suspension system modes of the suspension system, and wherein the control system comprises one or more processors collectively configured to :receive a temperature signal indicative of a temperature associated with the suspension system;
- determine, based on the temperature signal, a control signal;
- and output the control signal, wherein i) when the temperature signal indicates that the temperature associated with the suspension system is above a first threshold and below a second threshold greater than the first threshold, the control signal comprises a first control signal configured to cause the suspension system controller to select and maintain a default suspension mode independent of the selected drive mode, and ii) when the temperature signal indicates that the temperature associated with the suspension system is above the second threshold, the control signal comprises a second control signal configured to cause the drive mode selection system to select and maintain a default drive mode independent of the sensed terrain type.
A method for a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a drive mode selection system, a suspension system, and a suspension system controller,
- wherein the drive mode selection system is configured to select, based on a sensed terrain type local to the vehicle, a drive mode of a plurality of drive modes of the vehicle, wherein the suspension system controller is configured to select, based on the selected drive mode, a suspension pump mode of a plurality of suspension pump modes of the suspension system, and wherein the method comprises receiving a temperature signal indicative of a temperature associated with the suspension system;
- determining, based on the temperature signal, a control signal;
- and outputting the control signal, wherein
- i) when the temperature signal indicates that the temperature associated with the suspension system is above a first threshold and below a second threshold greater than the first threshold, the control signal comprises a first control signal configured to cause the suspension system controller to select and maintain a default suspension mode independent of the selected drive mode, and
- ii) when the temperature signal indicates that the temperature associated with the suspension system is above the second threshold, the control signal comprises a second control signal configured to cause the drive mode selection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.