Patent ID: 6614343
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: B60G,B60T,B60W,B62D

Abstract:
A method for detemining vehicle status quantities, in which the forces acting on the individual wheels and tires are measured and evaluated for the establishment of control quantities for an automotive control system, comprising the steps of:measuring tire force quantities including longitudinal and lateral tire forces, vertical tire forces of the wheels, establishing vehicle status quantities including the angular yaw velocity or the angular yaw acceleration, the steering angle and the side slip angle of the vehicle as well as the vehicle velocity or the vehicle acceleration by using corrective quantities determined, estimated or calculated in corrective steps, weighting the tire force quantities or components of these quantities in the corrective steps in dependence on at least one of the following measured, or calculated non-tire force quantities rotary wheel speed, cornering, straight ride, friction coefficient.