Vehicular travel control device

A vehicular travel control device comprising:

• plural radar sensors with which a vehicle is equipped to emit respective electric wave signals onto a road surface and receive reflection signals resulting from the electric wave signals being reflected from the road surface;
• a steering angle sensor that detects a steering angle;
• a brake unit that controls braking forces of wheels;
• and
• a control unit that inputs signals from the radar sensors and the steering angle sensor, processes the inputted signals, and outputs the processed signals to the brake unit;
• wherein the radar sensors respectively detect ground speeds of their own from Doppler shift frequencies superimposed on the reflection signals from the road surface,
• the control unit calculates a ground speed of the vehicle and a measured angle of sideslip, on the basis of ground speeds of the radar sensors, and
• the control unit controls the braking forces of the wheels so that the measured angle of sideslip follows a target angle of sideslip set on the basis of the ground speed of the vehicle and the steering angle detected by the steering angle sensors.

A vehicular travel control device including at least:

• plural radar sensors with which a vehicle is equipped to emit respective electric wave signals onto a road surface and receive reflection signals resulting from the electric wave signals being reflected from the road surface;
• a steering angle sensor that detects a steering angle;
• a brake unit that controls braking forces of wheels;
• and
• a control unit that inputs signals from the radar sensors and the steering angle sensor, processes the inputted signals, and outputs the processed signals to the brake unit;
• wherein Doppler shift frequencies superposed on the reflection signals are detected and the braking forces of the wheels are controlled on the basis of the detected Doppler frequencies,
• a measured angle of sideslip and a ground speed of the vehicle are calculated on the basis of the Doppler shift frequencies, and
• the braking forces of each wheels are controlled so that the measured angle of sideslip follows the target angle of sideslip set from the ground speed and the steering angle detected by the steering angle sensor,
• further including wheel speed sensors disposed in correspondence to the wheels, wherein the braking forces of the wheels are controlled so that measured wheel speed values detected by the wheel speed sensors follows respective target wheel speeds set of the basis of the Doppler shift frequencies, and
• shock absorbers that vary damping coefficients corresponding to the wheels, wherein each of damping coefficients of the shock absorbers or each of the braking forces of the wheels is controlled on the basis of the phase difference between each emitted electric wave signal and its reflection signal and the Doppler shift frequency superposed on the reflection signal.

A radar sensor comprising:

• a transmitter device that emits electric wave signals onto a road surface;
• a receiver device that receives a reflection signal resulting from the electric wave signal being reflected from the road surface;
• and
• a communications device that communicates an output pulse signal to an electronic control as a function of the reflected signal;
• wherein a frequency of the output pulse signal from the communication device is varied on the basis of a phase difference between plural reflection signals of different frequencie, and an on-duty ratio is varied on the basis of a Doppler shift frequency superposed of the reflected signal.