System and method of controlling vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12358517-B2
Application number	US-202218078045-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 8, 2022
Priority date	Sep 19, 2022
Publication date	Jul 15, 2025
Grant date	Jul 15, 2025

Abstract

A system of controlling a vehicle may include a sensor and a controller, in which the sensor may be configured to sense vehicle operation state information, and the controller may be configured to determine whether a vehicle is running on a dangerous road based on the sensed vehicle operation state information, determine whether there is a possibility that a vehicle driving state will cause a failure of a driving system based on the sensed vehicle operation state information in response to determining that the vehicle is running on the dangerous road, and decide that torque control of the vehicle.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system of controlling a vehicle, the system comprising a sensor and a controller,
wherein the sensor is configured to sense a vehicle operation state to generate sensed vehicle operation state information, and
the controller is configured to:
determine whether a vehicle is running on a dangerous road based on the sensed vehicle operation state information,
determine whether there is a possibility that a vehicle driving state will cause a failure of a driving system based on the sensed vehicle operation state information in response to determining that the vehicle is running on the dangerous road, and
decide that torque control of the vehicle is required and control the vehicle torque in response to determining that there is the possibility that the vehicle driving state will cause the failure of the driving system;

wherein the controller is further configured to decrease the vehicle torque to a set value with a predetermined first change rate when the vehicle torque is controlled, and
wherein the controller is further configured to increase the vehicle torque with a predetermined second change rate in response to determining that the vehicle is not running on the dangerous road or determining that there is no possibility that the vehicle driving state will cause the failure of the driving system after decreasing the vehicle torque to the set value with the predetermined first change rate.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sensor comprises one or more sensors to generate the sensed vehicle operation state information comprising a road slope, a steering angle, a longitudinal acceleration, an acceleration pedal depth, an average wheel speed difference, or a combination thereof, and the controller and wherein the controller is configured to determine that there is the possibility that the vehicle driving state will cause the failure of the driving system when the road slope is smaller than a preset road slope, the steering angle is smaller than a preset steering angle, the longitudinal acceleration is larger than a predetermined longitudinal acceleration, the acceleration pedal depth is deeper than a preset acceleration pedal depth, the average wheel speed difference during a predetermined time interval is smaller than a preset average wheel speed difference during the predetermined time interval, vehicle failure information indicates that the failure of the vehicle does not occur, or a combination thereof.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to:
calculate an impact amount received in a vehicle driving process,
accumulate the calculated impact amount when the calculated impact amount is equal to or larger than a first set value, and
determine that the vehicle is running on the dangerous road when the accumulated impact amount is equal to or larger than a second set value.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the controller is configured to determine that the vehicle is running on the dangerous road when a holding time of the accumulated impact amount is smaller than a predetermined time when the accumulated impact amount is smaller than the second set value.

5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the vehicle operation state information comprises wheel speed information, and wherein the controller is configured to estimate a current wheel speed by using previous wheel speed information, calculate a difference between the estimated current wheel speed and an actual current wheel speed, and set the difference as the impact amount received in the vehicle driving process when calculating the impact amount received in the vehicle driving process.

6. The system of claim 3 , wherein the vehicle operation state information further includes motor speed information, and
wherein a current motor speed is estimated by using previous motor speed information and a difference between the estimated current motor speed and an actual current motor speed is calculated to set the difference as the impact amount received in the vehicle driving process when calculating the impact amount received in the vehicle driving process.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to determine whether the vehicle is running on the dangerous road based on vertical acceleration information.

8. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a display configured to display a real-time torque change message of the vehicle and a warning message indicating that the vehicle is running on the dangerous road.

9. A method of controlling a vehicle, the method comprising:
sensing vehicle operation state information;
determining whether a vehicle is running on a dangerous road based on the sensed vehicle operation state information;
determining whether there is a possibility that a vehicle driving state will cause a failure of a driving system based on the sensed vehicle operation state information in response to determining that the vehicle is running on the dangerous road; and
deciding that torque control of the vehicle is required and controlling the vehicle torque in response to determining that there is the possibility that the vehicle driving state will cause the failure of the driving system;
wherein the controlling of the vehicle torque further includes decreasing the vehicles torque to a set value with a predetermined first change rate, and
wherein the controlling of the vehicle torque further includes increasing the vehicle torque with a predetermined second change rate in response to determining that the vehicle is not running on the dangerous road or determining that there is no possibility that the vehicle driving state will cause the failure of the driving system after decreasing the vehicle torque to the set value with the predetermined first change rate.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the determining of whether there is the possibility that the vehicle driving state will cause the failure of the driving system based on the sensed vehicle operation state information includes,
determining that there is the possibility that the vehicle driving state will cause the failure of the driving system when a road slope is smaller than a preset road slope, a steering angle is smaller than a preset steering angle, a longitudinal acceleration is larger than a predetermined longitudinal acceleration, an acceleration pedal depth is deeper than a preset acceleration pedal depth, an average wheel speed difference during a predetermined time interval is smaller than a preset average wheel speed difference during the predetermined time interval, and vehicle failure information indicates that the failure of the vehicle does not occur.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the determining of whether the vehicle is running on the dangerous road based on the sensed vehicle operation state information includes,
calculating an impact amount received in a vehicle driving process,
accumulating the calculated impact amount when the calculated impact amount is equal to or larger than a first set value, and
determining that the vehicle is running on the dangerous road when the accumulated impact amount is equal to or larger than a second set value.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the determining of whether the vehicle is running on the dangerous road based on the sensed vehicle operation state information includes, determining that the vehicle is running on the dangerous road when a holding time of the accumulated impact amount is smaller than a predetermined time when the accumulated impact amount is smaller than the second set value.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the calculating of the impact amount received in the vehicle

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Corp

Inventors

• You Bao Wen
• Park Sun Woo
• Chang Young Joon
• Ma Xiaobin
• Sun Xuejiao
• Wei Yuzhao
• Cho Woon Ki
• Yan xiao tong

Classifications

• B60W10/08

  including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators · CPC title

• B60W2710/083

  Torque · CPC title

• B60W2520/28

  Wheel speed · CPC title

• B60W40/076

  Slope angle of the road · CPC title

• Y02T10/64

  Electric machine technologies in electromobility · CPC title