Patent ID: 8364348

Claim:
A method for determining a steering angle offset in a vehicle having a control unit and a steering angle sensor, comprising the steps of: determining, by the control unit, a first frequency distribution of the steering angle over a number of steering angles depending on at least one dynamic vehicle parameter sensed by the steering angle sensor; determining, by the control unit, a first average value of the steering angle from the first frequency distribution; checking, by the control unit, whether the steering angle in the first frequency distribution is distributed symmetrically around the first average value; and if there is symmetry of the first frequency distribution around the first average value, carrying over, by the control unit, the first frequency distribution into a second frequency distribution, the number of steering angles included in the second frequency distribution being equal to or higher than the number of steering angles from the first frequency distribution, and when the overall number of steering angles in the second frequency distribution exceeds a predefined threshold, determining, by the control unit, the steering angle offset from a second average value of the second frequency distribution.