Patent ID: 8805604

Claim:
A method for adjusting a steering system in a vehicle, in which a setpoint trajectory adapted to an ambient situation is produced and a steering torque is adjusted in the steering system so that the vehicle follows the setpoint trajectory, the method comprising: assigning a tolerance corridor to the setpoint trajectory; producing a basic steering torque for guiding the vehicle within the tolerance corridor, wherein the basic steering torque is calculated as a function of vehicle dynamics variables, as a value that compensates for a restoring torque prevailing in the steering system to keep the vehicle along the setpoint trajectory in the absence of any driver steering input; and conditional upon the vehicle leaving the tolerance corridor: calculating a steering guidance torque as a function of the vehicle dynamics variable, as a value that acts upon the vehicle in a direction of the tolerance corridor to guide the vehicle back towards the tolerance corridor; and superimposing the steering guidance torque on the basic steering torque and a driver input torque to calculate a total torque as a sum of the steering guidance torque, the basic steering torque, and the driver input torque.