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Kai-Uwe Balszuweit

Robert J Disser

Patrick Allen Mescher

Scott Alan Millsap

Christian Ebner

Brian Thomas Murray

Michael D Byers

Jeffrey Heinrichs

Hendrikus T Smakman

Detlef Krukenkamp

Slawomir Bakaus

Markus Krug

J&uuml;rgen Guldner

Schedl Anton

Michael Gr&auml;f

In an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for steering a vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus includes a back-drivable steer-by-wire system including a road wheel actuator assembly coupled to a wheel of the vehicle. The road wheel actuator assembly defines a steering axis and the steering axis is off-set from a longitudinal axis of the wheel by a positive scrub radius. In an embodiment for a method in accordance with the present invention, a method to steer a vehicle after failure of a road wheel actuator assembly in a back-drivable steer-by-wire steering system is disclosed. The method includes the acts of applying a braking force to the wheel and generating a torque on the road wheel actuator assembly by the applied braking force acting through a positive scrub radius.

Back-drivable steer-by-wire system with positive scrub radius

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Grasbrunn, Germany

Kai-Uwe Balszuweit