Patent ID: 8700263
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: A01B,B62D

Abstract:
1. A vehicle guidance system for automatically tuning a user-configurable steering parameter applied to at least one steerable wheel of a vehicle, the system comprising: at least one memory storage component; an angle measurement device for measuring the actual angle of the at least one steerable wheel of the vehicle for a plurality of points in time; a computing device communicably coupled with the memory storage component and angle measurement device, wherein the computing device includes: a control module having control algorithms for processing position information and desired path parameters and outputting a desired angle for each of a plurality of points in time; a compensation module for receiving the desired angle and comparing the desired angle for each of the plurality of points in time with the actual angle of the steerable wheel for each of the plurality of points in time, determining if over-steering or under-steering has occurred, and outputting the user-configurable steering parameter based on the frequency at which over-steering or under-steering occurred over a pre-determined period of time, as recorded and stored in the memory storage component.