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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1999
Herbert Schramm, Leonberg, DE;
Peter Dominke, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
Klaus-Dieter Leimbach, Moeglingen, DE;
Gabriel Wetzel, Stuttgart, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus relate to the detection of a tilt tendency of a vehicle about a vehicle axis oriented in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. For this purpose, for at least one wheel, a variable describing the wheel rotation speed and at least one variable representing the transverse dynamics of the vehicle are ascertained. As a function of one of the variables representing the transverse dynamics of the vehicle, braking torques and/or drive torques are briefly generated and/or modified at at least one wheel. While the braking torques and/or drive torques at the at least one wheel are being briefly generated and/or modified, and/or after they have been briefly generated and/or modified, a variable which quantitatively describes the wheel behavior is determined for that at least one wheel, as a function of the variable describing the wheel rotation speed of that wheel. As a function of that variable quantitatively describing the wheel behavior of that wheel, a determination is made as to whether there is a tilt tendency of the vehicle about a vehicle axis oriented in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.