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Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 17, 2017
Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

John Walsh, Commerce Township, MI (US);

Timothy Panagis, Ypsilanti, MI (US);

Daniel Slavin, Ypsilanti, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 15/02 (2006.01); B62D 5/04 (2006.01); B62D 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 15/025 (2013.01); B62D 5/0421 (2013.01); B62D 5/0463 (2013.01); B62D 6/00 (2013.01); B62D 15/021 (2013.01);
Abstract

A steering compensation apparatus includes a road camber determiner to determine a first road camber at a road position in front of a vehicle using wheel trajectory data and height data of the road position, a road camber logic circuit to select, via a torque mapper mapping a plurality of road cambers to a plurality of first compensating torques, a first compensating torque corresponding to the first road camber and a steering controller to drive a motor to deliver the selected first compensating torque to a steering rack at the road position responsive to the first road camber.


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