Patent ID: 7239949

Claim:
A vehicle control system comprising: a housing; a sensor cluster within said housing generating a plurality of signals including a roll rate signal, a pitch rate signal, a yaw rate signal, a longitudinal acceleration signal, a lateral acceleration signal, and a vertical acceleration signal; an integrated controller comprising a sensor signal compensation unit and a kinematics unit, said sensor signal compensation unit receiving at least one of said plurality of signals and compensating for an offset within said at least one of said plurality of signals and generating a compensated signal as a function thereof, said controller generating a kinematics signal comprising a sensor frame with respect to an intermediate axis system as a function of said compensated signal, said integrated controller generating a vehicle frame signal as a function of said kinematics signal; a dynamic system controller receiving said vehicle frame signal and generating a dynamic control signal in response thereto; and a safety device controller receiving said dynamic control signal and further generating a safety device signal in response thereto.