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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1997
Ronald Paul, Detroit, MI (US);
Stephen Robert Pastor, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Michael Douglas Rizzo, White Lake, MI (US);
Duane Edward Bassett, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Edward John Bedner, Brighton, MI (US);
Douglass L Carson, Walled Lake, MI (US);
Hsien Heng Chen, Troy, MI (US);
Yuen-Kwok Chin, Troy, MI (US);
Youssef Ahmed Ghoneim, Macomb Township, MI (US);
Alan James Lee, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
William Chin-Woei Lin, Troy, MI (US);
Howard Hans Ludwig, Eastpoint, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A brake control system method according to the steps of: determining driver commanded yaw rate; measuring actual yaw rate; determining a yaw rate error; determining, in response to vehicle conditions, a yaw rate dead band wherein the yaw rate dead band varies with vehicle conditions; comparing the yaw rate error to the dead band; and if the yaw rate error exceeds the dead band, controlling the vehicle responsive to the yaw rate error, wherein yaw rate control only occurs when the yaw rate error exceeds the dead band.