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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2000
Herbert Schramm, Leonberg, DE;
Klaus-Dieter Leimbach, Moeglingen, DE;
Falk Hecker, Markgroeningen, DE;
Oliver Jundt, Besigheim-Ottmarsheim, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method for stabilizing a vehicle in particular to prevent overturning, in which a strategy is selected from at least two different strategies as a function of a quantity describing or corresponding to whether an overturn tendency about a vehicle axis oriented in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle exists, and which may be determined at least as a function of a quantity describing or corresponding to the wheel behavior of at least one wheel, and which may also be determined a function of a comparison which is carried out as a function of a quantity describing or corresponding to the lateral dynamics of the vehicle and of a characteristic value that is determined as a function of a quantity describing or corresponding to the instantaneous friction conditions.