Toyota Research Institute, Inc.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hanh Nguyen

Michael Thompson

Avinash Balachandran

Yan Ming Jonathan Goh

Alexander Russell Green

John Subosits

Minoru Brandon Araki

James A Dallas

Phung Xuan Nguyen

Yan Ming Goh

Izumi Karino

Systems and methods provide for corrective assistance to maintain a stable controllable drift, while permitting a drift driving experience for the driver. Examples of the systems and methods disclosed herein include receiving first data corresponding to a current operational state of a vehicle while performing a controllable drift; receiving a request to operate the vehicle in a requested operational state; determining that the requested operational state exceeds a threshold operational state associated with an uncontrollable drift; and, in response to the determination, providing corrective assistance to operate the vehicle in a corrective operational state to prevent the vehicle from entering an uncontrollable drift.

Systems and methods for preventing uncontrollable vehicle drift

System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to skid recovery for a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method for controlling a vehicle during skid includes obtaining data indicating a skid condition of the vehicle, determining whether the skid condition can be corrected by counter-steering, and executing an intervention when the skid condition cannot be corrected by counter-steering, the intervention including inducing slippage in front wheels of the vehicle to change a direction and/or magnitude of lateral forces at the front wheels.

Systems and methods for skid recovery using front wheel slip

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Hanh Nguyen