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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2020
Continental Automotive Gmbh, Hannover, DE;
Abstract
A method for estimating a value representing the frictional behavior of a vehicle being driven on a road segment, including receiving operating parameters of a vehicle including at least, a driving wheel angular velocity, an angular velocity of a free wheel of the vehicle, and vehicle a dynamic characteristic; computing a first ratio between the driving wheel angular velocity and the angular velocity of a free wheel of the vehicle, which are acquired when the vehicle is moving substantially in a straight line at a velocity greater than or equal to a first preset threshold; determining, from the received operating parameters, a second ratio between the driving wheel radius and the free wheel radius; determining a slip rate from a product of the first and second determined ratios; and obtaining a value representing the vehicle's frictional behavior by normalizing the determined slip rate using at least the vehicle's dynamic characteristic.