Patent ID: 7650215
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: B60G

Abstract:
1. A vehicle control system comprising: a housing; a plurality of input sensors within said housing generating a plurality of signals including a roll rate signal, a pitch rate signal, a yaw rate signal, a longitudinal acceleration signal, a lateral acceleration signal, and a vertical acceleration signal, a wheel speed signal, a steering wheel angle signal, and conditions among calculated signals reflecting a road constraint, a wheel speed alignment, a level ground attitude alignment, and a virtual heading alignment; an integrated controller comprising a relative attitude determination unit and a sensor misalignment unit, said relative attitude determination unit receiving at least one of said plurality of signals and generating a relative attitude signal therefrom, said sensor misalignment unit calculating sensor misalignments within said plurality of signals and generating a sensor misalignment signal as a function of said sensor misalignments, said integrated controller generating a vehicle frame signal as a function of said relative attitude signal and said sensor misalignment signal; a dynamic system controller receiving said vehicle frame signal and generating a dynamic control signal in response thereto; and a safety device controller receiving said dynamic control signal and further generating a safety device signal in response thereto.