Speed constraint control procedure
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsPinaki Gupta, Lawrence A. Kaminsky, Anthony H. Heap
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Abstract
A method includes receiving speed constraints associated with two independent vehicle components and receiving speed constraints associated with a first dependent vehicle component and a second dependent vehicle component. The method further includes defining a relationship between the received speed constraints of the independent vehicle components and the first and second dependent vehicle components. Moreover, speed values of an unknown speed constraint associated with a third dependent component are derived based on the defined relationship between the received speed constraints of the independent vehicle components and the first and second dependent vehicle components.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving speed constraints associated with two independent vehicle components;
- receiving speed constraints associated with a first dependent vehicle component;
- receiving speed constraints associated with a second dependent vehicle component;
- defining a relationship between the received speed constraints of the independent vehicle components and the first and second dependent vehicle components;
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- deriving, via a computing device, speed values of an unknown speed constraint associated with a third dependent component based on the defined relationship between the received speed constraints of the independent vehicle components and the first and second dependent vehicle components.
A vehicle comprising:
- a plurality of independent vehicle components configured to rotate;
- a first dependent vehicle component operably connected to at least one of the independent vehicle components and configured to rotate at a speed dependent upon the rotation of at least one of the independent vehicle components;
- a second dependent vehicle component operably connected to at least one of the independent vehicle components and configured to rotate at a speed dependent upon the rotation of at least one of the independent vehicle components;
- wherein the independent vehicle components, the first dependent vehicle component, and the second dependent vehicle component are each associated with a speed constraint;
- a third dependent vehicle component operably connected to the independent vehicle component and configured to rotate at a speed dependent upon the rotation of at least one of the independent vehicle components, wherein the third dependent vehicle component is associated with an unknown speed constraint;
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- a control processor configured to define a relationship between the speed constraints of the independent vehicle components, the first dependent vehicle component, and the second dependent vehicle component, and derive speed values within the unknown speed constraint of the third dependent vehicle component based on the derived relationship between the speed constraints of the independent vehicle components and the first and second dependent vehicle components.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.