Vehicle
AssigneeKabushikikaisha Equos Research
InventorKatsunori Doi
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Abstract
During vehicle operation, drive wheels are constantly monitored to see whether or not slip of drive wheels occurs and when slip is detected, posture control for slip conditions is performed by uncoupling normal posture control for the drive wheels. A balancer (weight body) which is movable in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle is provided, and posture control is performed by moving the balancer backward when the vehicle inclines forward due to slip and moving the balancer forward when the vehicle inclines backward. The detection of slip is through a comparison between the drive wheels circumferential speed V2 and a vehicle running speed V1.
Claims7
A vehicle having two mutually-opposed drive wheels, the vehicle comprising:
- a weight body disposed to be moveable with respect to a longitudinal direction of the vehicle;
- a slip condition estimation system, included within an electronic control unit, which determines whether or not the drive wheels have slipped;
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- a slip adaptation control system, included within the electronic control unit, which provides posture control by moving the weight body responsive to a determination by the slip adaptation control system that slip has occurred.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.