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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2016
Jaguar Land Rover Limited, Whitley, Coventry, Warwickshire, GB;
Robert Burford, Winslow, GB;
James Kelly, Solihull, GB;
JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED, Whitley Coventry, GB;
Abstract
A speed control system for a vehicle. The speed control system has a torque control for automatically causing application of positive and negative torque to one or more wheels of a vehicle to cause a vehicle to travel in accordance with a target speed value. The system receives information indicative of a gradient of a driving surface over which the vehicle is driving, with the torque control being configured to control the rate of change of the amount of torque applied to the one or more wheels, in order to attempt to maintain the vehicle traveling in accordance with the target speed value, in dependence at least in part on the gradient of the driving surface.