Full-hydraulic synchronous steering system for low-speed heavy-load vehicle and control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11724734-B2
Application number	US-202117473950-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2021
Priority date	Mar 13, 2019
Publication date	Aug 15, 2023
Grant date	Aug 15, 2023

Abstract

The present application provides a full hydraulic synchronous steering system for a low-speed heavy-load vehicle, where the system includes: a steering control mechanism and a steering actuator; by determining a desired steering curve between a steering wheel angle and a rear wheel angle, when a steering error exceeds an allowable error, a controller controls the opening and closing of an oil replenishment solenoid valve ( 5 ) and an oil discharge solenoid valve ( 4 ) to adjust a flow rate of the oil flowing into a steering cylinder ( 7 ), so as to ensure that the steering error is within an allowable error range, thereby implementing synchronous steering. A method for manipulating the full hydraulic synchronous steering system is further provided. The full hydraulic synchronous steering system and the method can improve synchronous steering capability of the low-speed heavy-load vehicle and change a steering ratio, thereby improving safety and direction feeling of a driver.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A full hydraulic synchronous steering system for a low-speed heavy-load vehicle, comprising a steering control mechanism and a steering actuator;
wherein the steering control mechanism comprises: a steering wheel, a controller, a steering wheel angle sensor, and a rear wheel angle sensor;
the steering actuator comprises: an oil tank ( 1 ), an oil pump ( 2 ), a load-sensitive solenoid valve ( 3 ), an oil discharge solenoid valve ( 4 ), an oil replenishment solenoid valve ( 5 ), a left-right reversing valve ( 6 ), a steering cylinder ( 7 ), a hydraulic steering pump ( 8 ) and an oil discharge throttle valve ( 13 );
the steering wheel angle sensor is disposed on a drive shaft of the steering wheel, and the steering wheel angle sensor rotates with the steering wheel and is configured to collect a steering wheel angle signal;
the rear wheel angle sensor is disposed on an overhanging section of a left piston rod in a left working chamber of the steering cylinder ( 7 ), and is configured to collect a rear wheel angle signal;
an oil outlet of the left-right reversing valve ( 6 ) is connected to the hydraulic steering pump ( 8 ), and an oil inlet of the left-right reversing valve ( 6 ) is connected to the load-sensitive solenoid valve ( 3 ) through a main oil line and the oil replenishment solenoid valve ( 5 );
the hydraulic steering pump ( 8 ) is connected to the steering wheel through a steering column;
the load-sensitive solenoid valve ( 3 ) is disposed on the main oil line, and is located between a branch of the main oil line and the oil pump ( 2 );
two ends of the oil discharge solenoid valve ( 4 ) are connected to an oil outlet of the load-sensitive solenoid valve ( 3 ) and the oil tank ( 1 ), respectively;
two ends of the oil discharge throttle valve ( 13 ) are connected to the oil tank ( 1 ) and an oil outlet of the oil discharge solenoid valve ( 4 ), respectively;
two ends of the oil replenishment solenoid valve ( 5 ) are connected to the oil outlet of the load-sensitive solenoid valve ( 3 ) and an oil outlet of the hydraulic steering pump ( 8 ), respectively;
when steering, the load-sensitive solenoid valve ( 3 ) is opened, the oil pump ( 2 ) supplies oil to the hydraulic steering pump ( 8 ), and the controller performs an oil replenishment operation or an oil discharge operation on the steering cylinder ( 7 ) according to the steering wheel angle signal and the rear wheel angle signal collected, so as to implement synchronous steering of a steering wheel angle and a rear wheel angle; and
when there is no steering requirement, the load-sensitive solenoid valve ( 3 ) is closed to enable the hydraulic steering pump ( 8 ) to be closed, and oil liquid is supplied to other hydraulic circuits for usage through an EF port of the load-sensitive solenoid valve ( 3 ).

2. The full hydraulic synchronous steering system according to claim 1 , wherein the load-sensitive solenoid valve ( 3 ) is a two-position three-way high-speed switching solenoid valve, and performs an operation according to the steering wheel angle signal, when it is in a center, an A port is normally closed, the EF port is connected, and the EF port is connected to other hydraulic circuits; and
the oil discharge solenoid valve ( 4 ) and the oil replenishment solenoid valve ( 5 ) are both two-position two-way high-speed switching solenoid valves, and are normally closed when it is in a center, and performs opening and closing operations according to an instruction of the controller.

3. The full hydraulic synchronous steering system according to claim 1 , wherein a speed-adjustable throttle valve is mounted in the left-right reversing valve ( 6 ), and is configured to adjust the flow rate of the main oil line, an oil replenishment and an oil discharge, and an operation of the left-right reversing valve ( 6 ) is controlled by the steering wheel angle signal; and
the oil discharge throttle valve ( 13 ) is a speed-adjustable throttle valve, and is configured to control the flow rate of the oil discharge, and perform an adjustment operation according to an instruction of the controller.

4. A control method of a full hydraulic synchronous steering system, wherein the full hydraulic synchronous steering system is the full hydraulic synchronous steering system according to claim 1 , and the control method is performed according to the following steps:
Step 1: determining a desired steering curve γ between a steering wheel angle α and a rear wheel angle β;
Step 2: inputting a current steering wheel angle value α 1 to the desired steering curve γ to obtain a desired rear wheel angle value β 1 corresponding to the current steering wheel angle value α 1 ;
Step 3: collecting an actual rear wheel angle value β 2 , and calculating a steering error |Δβ|=|β 2 −β 1 |;
Step 4: determining an oil supply status of a steering cylinder; and
Step 5: performing compensation control of the steering error according to the oil supply status of the steering cylinder.

5. The control method of the full hydraulic synchronous steering system according to claim 4 , wherein the desired steering curve γ of Step 1 is further determined according to the following method:
Step 1.1: opening an oil replenishment solenoid valve ( 5 ) fully, closing an oil discharge solenoid valve ( 4 ) fully, rotating a steering wheel, collecting a steering wheel angle value and a rear wheel angle value, and obtaining a full oil replenishment steering curve γ 3 between the steering wheel angle α and the rear wheel angle β;
Step 1.2: closing the oil replenishment solenoid valve ( 5 ) fully, opening the oil discharge solenoid valve ( 4 ) fully, rotating the steering wheel, collecting the steering wheel angle value and the rear wheel angle value, and obtaining a full oil discharge steering curve γ 4 between the steering wheel angle α and the rear wheel angle β; and
Step 1.3: taking any one of curves within a range of upper and lower limits formed by the full oil replenishment steering curve γ 3 and the full oil discharge steering curve γ 4 as the desired steering curve γ between the steering wheel angle α and the rear wheel angle β.

6. The control method of the full hydraulic synchronous steering system according to claim 4 , wherein the oil supply status of the steering cylinder of Step 4 is determined according to the following method:
when |Δβ|>Δβ limit and Δβ<0, the steering cylinder is in an oil replenishment status;
when |Δβ|>Δβ limit and Δβ>0, the steering cylinder is in an oil discharge status; and
when |Δβ|≤Δβ limit , the steering cylinder is in a balanced status;
wherein Δβ limit is an allowable error.

7. The control method of the full hydraulic synchronous steering system according to claim 4 , wherein the compensation control of the steering error of Step 5 is performed according to the following method:
when the steering cylinder is in an oil replenishment status, opening an oil replenishment solenoid valve ( 5 ), closing an oil discharge solenoid valve ( 4 ), and performing an oil replenishment operation on the steering cylinder;
when the steering cylinder is in an balanced status, closing the oil replenishment solenoid valve ( 5 ) and closing the oil discharge solenoid valve ( 4 ) without controlling the steering cylinder; and
when the steering cylinder is in an oil discharge status, closing the oil replenishment solenoid valve ( 5 ), opening the oil discharge solenoid valve ( 4 ), and performing an oil discharge operation on the steering cylinder.

8. The control method of the full hydraulic synchronous steering system according to claim 4 , wherein the desired steering curve γ of Step 1 is determined according to the following method:
Step 1.1: determining a relationship curv

Assignees

• Univ Hefei Technology

Inventors

• Xia Guang
• Shi Peng
• Zhang Yang
• Xu Liping
• Zhao Mingzhuo
• Gao Jun
• Yang Meng
• Wang Shaojie
• Sun Baoqun

Classifications

• B62D5/08 Primary

  characterised by type of {steering} valve used (valves in general F16K) · CPC title

• B62D5/065

  characterised by specially adapted means for varying pressurised fluid supply based on need, e.g. on-demand, variable assist · CPC title

• B62D5/093 Primary

  Telemotor driven by steering wheel movement (hydraulic steering gear B62D3/14) · CPC title

• B62D5/07

  Supply of pressurised fluid for steering also supplying other consumers {; control thereof} · CPC title