Method for determining a steering damping requirement, steering system, computer program product and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12319371-B2
Application number	US-202217742577-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 12, 2022
Priority date	May 18, 2021
Publication date	Jun 3, 2025
Grant date	Jun 3, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a steering damping requirement of a steering device of a vehicle, a steering system, a computer program product and a computer-readable storage medium. The steering device is part of a steering system of the vehicle and is coupled to at least one actuator which is configured to apply a steering torque to the steering device. The method comprises at least the step of determining the steering damping requirement based on at least one rack force of the steering system, wherein the steering damping requirement forms at least a portion of a target steering torque with which the steering device can be acted upon by the at least one actuator.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for determining a steering damping requirement of a steering device of a vehicle, wherein the steering device is part of a steering system of the vehicle and is coupled to at least one actuator which is configured to apply a steering torque to the steering device, the method comprising:
determining a steering damping requirement based on at least one rack force of the steering system, wherein the steering damping requirement forms at least a portion of a target steering torque with which the steering device can be acted upon by the at least one actuator; and
multiplying at least a first function value and a second function value in order to determine the steering damping requirement, wherein the first function value is determined at least as a function of the rack force, and wherein the second function value is determined at least as a function of a vehicle speed, a steering position determined by the steering system and a steering velocity determined by the steering system.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the steering damping requirement is further determined based at least on a vehicle speed, on a steering position determined by the steering system of the vehicle, and on a steering velocity determined by the steering system.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first to second function values is determined based on at least sectionally defined functions and/or by characteristic curves and/or by characteristic diagrams and/or look-up tables.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the at least sectionally defined functions and/or characteristic curves and/or characteristic diagrams and/or look-up tables are variable as a function of a desired steering feel.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the rack force is based on a measurement, an estimate from a steering model or on a vehicle model.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method is implemented by a computer.

7. A steering system for a vehicle, wherein the steering system comprises at least one steering device, a rack, a control device, at least one sensor, and at least one actuator, the control device being coupled to the actuator,
wherein the control device is configured to determine a steering damping requirement of the steering device based on at least one rack force of the steering system, and wherein the steering damping requirement forms at least a portion of a target steering torque with which the steering device can be acted upon by the at least one actuator; and
wherein the control device is configured to multiply at least a first function value and a second function value to determine the steering damping requirement, wherein the first function value is determined at least as a function of the rack force, and wherein the second function value is determined at least as a function of a vehicle speed, a steering position determined by the steering system and a steering velocity determined by the steering system.

8. The steering system according to claim 7 , wherein the control device is configured to determine the steering damping requirement, wherein the control device comprises at least one processor and is coupled to a memory device, wherein at least sectionally defined functions and/or characteristic curves and/or characteristic diagrams and/or look-up tables are stored in the memory device, so that at least one of the first and second function values can be determined by the control device based on data from the memory device, and wherein the processor is designed to determine the steering damping requirement based on at least one rack force of the steering system.

9. The steering system according to claim 7 , wherein the steering system further comprises at least one sensor device configured to measure a rack force applied to the rack.

10. The steering system according to claim 7 , wherein the steering system is one of a steering-by-wire steering system and an electromechanical steering system.

11. A computer program product, comprising instructions which, when the program is executed by a computer, cause the computer to determine the steering damping requirement based on at least one rack force of the steering system, wherein the steering damping requirement forms at least a portion of a target steering torque with which the steering device can be acted upon by the at least one actuator and wherein the computer further multiplies at least a first function value and a second function value to determine the steering damping requirement, wherein the first function value is determined at least as a function of the rack force, and wherein the second function value is determined at least as a function of a vehicle speed, a steering position determined by the steering system and a steering velocity determined by the steering system.

12. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the method further comprises at least the step of:
multiplying at least a first function value and a second function value in order to determine the steering damping requirement, wherein the first function value is determined at least as a function of the rack force, and wherein the second function value is determined at least as a function of the vehicle speed, the steering position determined by the steering system and a steering velocity determined by the steering system.

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein at least one of the first to second function values is determined based on at least sectionally defined functions and/or by characteristic curves and/or by characteristic diagrams and/or look-up tables.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the rack force is based on a measurement, an estimate from a steering model or on a vehicle model.

Assignees

• Zf Automotive Germany Gmbh

Inventors

• Hambloch Peter
• Kotz Andreas
• Gebing Martin

Classifications

• B62D5/0481

  monitoring the steering system, e.g. failures · CPC title

• B62D6/008 Primary

  Control of feed-back to the steering input member, e.g. simulating road feel in steer-by-wire applications · CPC title

• B62D5/006 Primary

  power actuated · CPC title