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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2019
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Sanghyun Hong, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Jianbo Lu, Northville, MI (US);
Justin Miller, Berkley, MI (US);
Smruti Panigrahi, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Timothy Feldkamp, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Zhijun Han, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A bake-steering apparatus for controlling autonomous navigation of an electric scooter includes at least one electric motor coupled to at least one wheel of the scooter to provide driving power to enable forward momentum of the scooter, at least a pair of brake pads on the scooter such that each brake pad is adapted to make mechanical braking contact with respective ones of the wheels to provide navigational steering of the scooter, and a computational module on the scooter and electrically connected to each brake pad. The computational module is adapted to receive electrical signals and compute them into corresponding braking commands so as to determine the mechanical braking contact to generate corresponding slowing and turning of the forward momentum of the scooter so as to provide navigational steering of the scooter.