Patent ID: 8863558

Claim:
A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to at least one cycle of operation, comprising: a rotatable drum at least partially defining a treating chamber for receiving the laundry for treatment; a motor rotationally driving the drum; a laundry size sensor providing a size output indicative of an amount of the laundry in the treating chamber; a speed sensor providing a speed output indicative of a rotational speed of the drum; and a controller receiving as inputs the size output and the speed output and controlling the motor to control the rotational speed of the drum to implement the at least one cycle of operation by setting a satellizing speed range based on the size output, accelerating the drum through an actual satellizing speed for the laundry regardless of the set satellizing speed range, determining the rotational speed of the drum at which the laundry actually satellizes to define a determined satellizing speed, comparing the determined satellizing speed to the satellizing speed range, and altering execution of the at least one cycle of operation when the determined satellizing speed is not within the satellizing speed range.