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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2018
Filed:
May. 27, 2016
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Commerce Township, MI (US);
Fling Tseng, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Steven Joseph Szwabowski, Northville, MI (US);
Jianbo Lu, Northville, MI (US);
Perry Robinson MacNeille, Lathrup Village, MI (US);
Xiaoming Wang, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A controller may indicate a low-traction mode of a vehicle when a longitudinal tracking accumulation exceeds a first threshold value and a lateral response accumulation exceeds a second threshold value. The longitudinal tracking accumulation may measure a tally of activation of a traction control system over time. The lateral response accumulation may measure a comparison of the vehicle yaw-rate to a driver-desired model-based prediction of the yaw-rate. The controller may indicate the low-traction mode by providing a recommendation to switch to the low-traction mode in a human-machine interface screen of the vehicle, or by automatically adjusting the operational mode of at least one electronic control unit of the vehicle to implement the low-traction mode.