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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 1996
Filed:
May. 20, 1994
Kevin M McLaughlin, Troy, MI (US);
TRW Inc., Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Abstract
A steering assist system (10) providing assist in response to a steering control signal includes a vehicle speed sensor (56) for sensing vehicle speed and for providing a speed signal having a value indicative of the sensed vehicle speed and a torque sensor (44) operatively connected to a vehicle hand wheel (12) for providing a torque signal indicative of applied steering torque. A blending filter (70, 71) is connected to the torque sensor and provides a blended filtered torque signal having a non-linear characteristic at torque frequencies less than a blending frequency and a linear characteristic at torque frequencies greater than the blending frequency. The blending filter establishing the blending frequency at a value functionally related to vehicle speed. Steering assist motor (28) provides steering assist in response to a control signal. The control signal is provided in response to the blended filtered torque signal. The blending filters filtering the torque signal so as to maintain a selectable system bandwidth during system operation.