Patent ID: 6012011
Filing Date: 2000-01-04
Classification: B60L,B60T,B61C,Y02T

Abstract:
A traction control system for remedying wheel-slippage included by at least one of a plurality of traction motors, each of the plurality of traction motors being independently coupled to and driving at least one wheel, comprising:a controller being operative to selectively provide a power signal to any of the plurality of traction motors;a monitoring system, coupled to each of the plurality of traction motors and to the controller, for detecting an increase in an operating speed, beyond a slipping speed, of any one of the plurality of traction motors, and being operative to provide to the controller an identity of a traction motor associated with the increase, wherein the controller and the monitoring system are operative to establish a threshold speed by:the monitoring system detecting the operating speed of each of the plurality of traction motors and notifying the controller of the operating speed of each of the plurality of traction motors; andthe controller equating the threshold speed to a value based on the operating speed of at least one of the plurality of traction motors; andin response to receiving the identity of the traction motor associated with the increase, the controller being operative to inhibit the power signal from being provided to the traction motor associated with the increase, whereby the wheel-slippage induced by the traction motor associated with the increase in the operating speed beyond the slipping speed is remedied.