IP Library Granted Patent US 11,858,574
Granted Patent B2
US 11,858,574 · App. 15/734,456 · Granted Jan 2, 2024

Steering control device and steering control method

Inventors: Go Sakayori (Tokyo, JP); Junya Takahashi (Tokyo, JP); Hiroshi Nakano (Hitachinaka, JP); Tomoaki Fujibayashi (Hitachinaka, JP)
Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
B62D7/159
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Patent No.
US 11,858,574
App. No.
15/734,456
Granted
Jan 2, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a steering control device and a steering control method that can suppress the deterioration of the turning responsiveness at the initial stage of steering that may occur in a four-wheel steering vehicle and improve the steering stability when the front and rear wheels of the four-wheel steering vehicle are controlled in the same phase. A steering control device 1 of a vehicle that controls a rear wheel steering angle based on a front wheel steering angle includes a control unit 19 that controls an amount obtained by dividing an integrated value of a change in the rear wheel steering angle in a second steering section where an absolute value of the front wheel steering angle is constant and/or decreases by a time to be larger than an amount obtained by dividing an integrated value of a change in the rear wheel steering angle in a first steering section where the absolute value of the front wheel steering angle increases by a time.

Claims (37)

1. A steering control device of a vehicle that controls a rear wheel steering angle based on a front wheel steering angle, comprising:

a control unit that controls an amount obtained by dividing an integrated value of a change in the rear wheel steering angle in a second steering section where an absolute value of the front wheel steering angle is constant and/or decreases by a time to be larger than an amount obtained by dividing an integrated value of a change in the rear wheel steering angle in a first steering section where the absolute value of the front wheel steering angle increases by a time.

2. The steering control device according to claim 1 ,

wherein, in the first steering section, the control unit adjusts the amount of change in the rear wheel steering angle to be larger in a region where an acceleration of a change in an absolute value of the front wheel steering angle is negative than in a positive region.

3. The steering control device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the control unit changes the rear wheel steering angle to follow the front wheel steering angle in the second steering section.

4. The steering control device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the control unit includes

a rear wheel steering angle calculation unit that calculates the rear wheel steering angle by multiplying the front wheel steering angle by a proportional gain, and

wherein, in the first steering section, the proportional gain changes to be large as an absolute value of the steering angle changes to a region where the absolute value is large rather than a region where the absolute value is small.

5. The steering control device according to claim 4 ,

wherein the proportional gain is a constant value in the second steering section.

6. The steering control device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the control unit includes

a rear wheel steering angle calculation unit that obtains a moment control amount by multiplying a front wheel steering angular speed of the front wheel steering angle by a proportional gain, and calculates the rear wheel steering angle based on the obtained moment control amount.

7. The steering control device according to claim 6 ,

wherein the control unit includes

a steering angular speed calculation unit that obtains a front wheel steering angular speed of the front wheel steering angle based on the front wheel steering angle and a vehicle speed of the vehicle.

8. A steering control method of a vehicle that controls a rear wheel steering angle based on a front wheel steering angle, comprising:

controlling an amount obtained by dividing an integrated value of a change in the rear wheel steering angle in a second steering section where an absolute value of the front wheel steering angle is constant and/or decreases by a time to be larger than an amount obtained by dividing an integrated value of a change in the rear wheel steering angle in a first steering section where the absolute value of the front wheel steering angle increases by a time.

9. The steering control method according to claim 8 ,

wherein, in the first steering section, the amount of change in the rear wheel steering angle is adjusted to be larger in a region where an acceleration of a change in an absolute value of the front wheel steering angle is negative than in a positive region.

10. The steering control method according to claim 8 ,

wherein the rear wheel steering angle is changed to follow the front wheel steering angle in the second steering section.

11. The steering control method according to claim 9 ,

wherein the rear wheel steering angle is calculated by multiplying the front wheel steering angle by a proportional gain, and

wherein, in the first steering section, the proportional gain changes to be large as an absolute value of the steering angle changes to a region where the absolute value is large rather than a region where the absolute value is small.

12. The steering control method according to claim 11 ,

wherein the proportional gain is a constant value in the second steering section.

13. The steering control method according to claim 8 ,

wherein a moment control amount is obtained by multiplying a front wheel steering angular speed of the front wheel steering angle by a proportional gain, and the rear wheel steering angle is calculated based on the obtained moment control amount.

14. The steering control method according to claim 13 ,

wherein a front wheel steering angular speed of the front wheel steering angle is obtained based on the front wheel steering angle and a vehicle speed of the vehicle.

15. The steering control device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the control unit changes the rear wheel steering angle to follow the front wheel steering angle in the second steering section.

16. The steering control method according to claim 9 ,

wherein the rear wheel steering angle is changed to follow the front wheel steering angle in the second steering section.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 1, 2023
From: SAKAYORI, GO; TAKAHASHI, JUNYA; NAKANO, HIROSHI; FUJIBAYASHI, TOMOAKI
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 062561/0231 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 2, 2021
From: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 057655/0824 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-143551 · Jul 31, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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