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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2022
Zf Cv Systems Global Gmbh, Bern, CH;
ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH, Bern, CH;
Abstract
A method for controlling a vehicle within a confined site, the method including, following a determination that there is no steering system available in a vehicle that can be controlled by steering control signals generated in automated fashion in order to influence a steering angle of wheels of a steered vehicle axle of the vehicle in automated fashion, specifying a path between a starting area and a specified destination area within the confined site, and generating drive control signals and steering braking control signals such that, during subsequent automated control of a drive system and of a brake system using the control signals, the vehicle moves from the starting area along the path to the specified destination area, and the steering angle varies owing solely to automated control of the brakes of the brake system.