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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1996
Stephen Robert Pastor, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Ronald Paul, Detroit, MI (US);
Michael Douglas Rizzo, White Lake, MI (US);
Edward John Bedner, Brighton, MI (US);
Vivek Jaikamal, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Kevin Austin O'Dea, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Edmund Stanley Browalski, W. Bloomfield, MI (US);
Howard Hans Ludwig, Eastpoint, MI (US);
Scott Douglas Morrison, Rochester, MI (US);
Hsien Heng Chen, Troy, MI (US);
Yuen-Kwok Chin, Troy, MI (US);
Youssef Ahmed Ghoneim, Macomb Township, MI (US);
William Chin-Woei Lin, Troy, MI (US);
Mutasim Abdurrahman Salman, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
David Michael Sidlosky, Huntington Woods, MI (US);
Michael Paul Turski, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
In a vehicle with a first operating mode in which all vehicle wheels have substantially no lateral movement on a road surface and a second operating mode in which at least some of the vehicle wheels have lateral movement on the road surface, and with an actuator capable of affecting vehicle yaw rate, a vehicle yaw rate control method comprising the steps of: measuring an actual vehicle yaw rate; measuring vehicle steering wheel position; in the second mode of operation, determining a desired yaw rate command linearly responsive to the measured steering wheel position; wherein the actuator is controlled to minimize a difference between the measured vehicle yaw rate and the desired vehicle yaw rate.