Patent ID: 7012513
Filing Date: 2006-03-14
Classification: B60G,B60T,B60W,B62D

Abstract:
1. A device for dynamically adjusting a vehicle component which affects operation of the vehicle, and whose behavior is influenced by a characteristic control variable, said device comprising: means for automatically or manually changing the characteristic control variable while traveling, via an actuator element; a control unit which adjusts said actuator element in response to a change of said characteristic control variable, via actuation signals in accordance with a stored calculation rule; and sensors for supplying measurement signals to said control unit for generating said actuation signals; wherein, a measurement signal which corresponds to a vehicle state variable that reflects behavior of a vehicle operator is determined over a predefined time period; at least one response characteristic value that characterizes an oscillation profile of measured vehicle state variables is determined and compared in a comparison unit of the control unit with an assigned setpoint value to determine whether the vehicle operator adapts to the change in the behavior of the vehicle component which results from a change in the characteristic control variable of the vehicle component; an actuation signal, which is fed to the actuator element and which at least partially reverses the change in the characteristic control variable of the vehicle component, is generated, if the driver does not adapt to the change in the behavior of the vehicle component; and whether the driver adapts to the change in behavior is determined by whether that at least one response characteristic value of the oscillation profile exceeds the assigned setpoint values.