Patent ID: 7200479

Claim:
Method of guiding a multitrack vehicle on a curved path which is defined by a vehicle driver by way of a set steering angle, the curved-path signal representing a desired curved path being guided in a form revised by an electronic control unit to at least one actuator influencing a yawing motion of the vehicle, and the curved-path signal formed of the set steering angle and of the vehicle speed, representing the yaw rate, are used as a pilot control for controlling a steering actuator which sets a steering angle of at least one steerable vehicle wheel, and for the change of the longitudinal force at the wheels of at least one vehicle side, so that, in addition to, or instead of, the setting of the steering angle, in addition, or by itself, a longitudinal force is applied to at least one vehicle wheel in order to travel the desired curved path, wherein a yawing moment fraction, which is produced by the steering angle and another yawing moment fraction, which is produced by the application of a longitudinal force in the form of a braking force and/or a driving force, are changeable in a mutually opposite manner, a sum of the yawing moment fraction and the another yawing moment fraction being an actuator yawing moment which is applied for travelling of the desired curved path, and a division of the actuator yawing moment into the yawing moment fraction is variable or freely selectable as a function of marginal conditions.