Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nobutaka Owa

Shunichi Doi

Hiroyuki Ikemoto

Yasutaka Hayashi

Osamu Yasuike

Yasuji Arai

In this system for vehicle roll control, one actuator assembly is provided corresponding to each vehicle wheel and resiliently suspends it from the vehicle body. Each of these actuator assemblies is adapted to increase or decrease the vehicle height at its vehicle wheel as a result of a control signal being supplied. Control means are provided corresponding to the actuator assemblies and serve to supply control signals to them. A vehicle speed detecting means senses road speed, a steering angle detecting means senses steering angle, a means senses the rate of change of steering angle, and a means detects the actual roll angle .phi..sub.t of the vehicle body. A computing and control means computes a steady state roll angle .phi..sub..infin. of the vehicle body from the vehicle speed and the steering angle, advances the phase of a signal representative of the steady state roll angle .phi..sub..infin. to thereby compute a compensating value .PHI..sub..infin. of roll angle, computes an amendment value .phi..sub.x of roll angle in accordance with the rate of change of steering angle, computes the difference .phi. based upon the desired roll angle .phi..sub.a of the vehicle body, the compensating value .PHI..sub..infin., the amendment value .phi..sub.x, and the actual roll angle .phi..sub.t following the equation: .phi.=.phi.a- (k.sub.1 .PHI..sub..infin. +k.sub.2 .PHI.t+k.sub.3 .PHI.x), where k1, k2 and k3 are positive constants; and controls the actuator assemblies, via the control means, in accordance with the difference .phi., when the absolute value of the difference .phi. is larger than a predetermined value.

System for vehicle body roll control detecting and compensating for

In this system for vehicle roll control, a plurality of actuator assemblies are provided, one corresponding to each one of the vehicle wheels and resiliently suspending it from the vehicle body. Each of these actuator assemblies is adapted to increase or decrease the vehicle height at a location corresponding to its corresponding vehicle wheel as results of control signals being supplied to it. A plurality of control means are provided corresponding to the actuator assemblies and serve to supply control signals to them. A vehicle speed detecting means senses the road speed of the vehicle, a steering angle detecting means senses the steering angle of the vehicle, and a lateral acceleration detecting means detects the lateral acceleration of the vehicle body. A means for computing and control predictingly computes the roll angle of the vehicle body from the vehicle speed sensed by the vehicle speed detecting means and the steering angle sensed by the steering angle detecting means, and controls the plurality of actuator assemblies, via the plurality of control means, in accordance with the computed roll angle, so as to reduce the rolling of the vehicle body to keep the vehicle body rolling within a determinate range. This computing and control means is further adapted to compare the direction of vehicle steering as detected by the steering angle detecting means with the direction of lateral acceleration of the vehicle body as detected by the lateral acceleration detecting means, and does not effect such controlling of the plurality of actuator assemblies, when the direction of vehicle steering is opposite to the direction of lateral acceleration of the vehicle body.

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Nobutaka Owa