dan williams: commercial steer presentation
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Synthetic Steering Torque Feedback
Dan Williams, Ph.D., P.E.Chief Engineer, Global Advanced EngineeringTRW Commercial Steering SystemsLafayette, [email protected]
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Background
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ColumnDrive Installation
Reservoir
Power Steering Pump
Power Steering Gear
Pitman Arm
Steering Column
Intermediate Shaft
Draglink
ColumnDrive
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Conventional Steering Feel
Valve Curve Comparison
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90
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Torque (N-m)
Pre
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(b
ar)
The “Bath-tub Curve”•Rotary open center valve displaced byinput torque on torsion bar.•Relationship between input torqueand assist natural consequence of flowthrough orifice.•Torsion bar between input and output,assist urges output to follow input.•Nonlinear position follower servo-mechanism.•Low frequency nonlinear torqueamplifier.
Fundamental compromise ofsteering systems:•Good controllability (torque feedbackon-center)•Low efforts (actuation away fromcenter)
For decades the bath-tub curvehas been an excellent solution•Sized for actuation.•Tweaked for driver feedback.•Actuation and feedback coupled.
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Passenger Car EPS Control
Assist control based on bath-tub curve.
Other complex, nonlinearspeed dependant functionsallow many tuning degrees offreedom to modify assist.
Torque feedback•No reference signal (0 bydefault).•Low gain on center.•Effectively open-loop.
Ref: Badawy et al (1999) and Brocker (2006)
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ColumnDrive Control
Dynamic compensator providesclassic high-fidelity closedtorque loop such that referencesignal is achieved.
Reference signal calculatedfrom steering and vehiclemeasurements.
Full authority on-center.
Torque feedback completelydecoupled from actuation.
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Hysteresis of Various Control
-800 -600 -400 -200 0 200 400 600 800-10
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-2
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handwheel position (deg)
handwheel torque (Nm)
no EPS
open loop (passcar)
closed loop
Dry park: Steering fullyloaded axle of motionlessvehicle from stop to stop.•Most demanding maneuversizes conventional systemcomponents.
•Open loop EPS demonstratessame qualitative performance asconventional system with lowertorque values.
•Demonstrates low frequencydisturbance rejection propertiesof dynamic compenstor.
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On-Center Comparison
Higher stiffness is better•Conventionally compromised by lowefforts.•Also limited by steady state torqueassociated with steering inputdisplacement bias
Less uncertainty is better•Vertical range is “friction”•Horizontal range is “lash”•Unique repeatable relationshipprovides controllability and driverconfidence.
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Synthetic Torque Command
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ColumnDrive Control
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Programmable Damping
0 1 2 3 4 5 6-400
-300
-200
-100
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100
200
EPS Damping
time (sec)
Handwheel Position (deg)
underdamped
overdamped
no eps
Damping ratio tunedconsistent with othervehicle dynamics.
Damping rate varies withstiffness and speed.
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Bias Rejection
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140-10
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EPS response to vehicle pull
Handwheel position (deg)
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140-1
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Handwheel torque (Nm)
time (sec)
crosswind starts
fully
compensated
handwheel
offset
Tunable adaptationwindow.
Valued feature for large,heavy commercialvehicles.
Allows higher on-centerstiffness w/o increasingsteady state efforts.
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Commercial Vehicle Application
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Motorhome
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On-Center Vehicle Performance
Motor home duty cycle typical of over the road commercial vehicles.
Motor homes are particularly softly sprung, many with IFS.
Steering input drive line nonlinearities degrade conventional handling.
High on-center stiffness and bias rejection create value.
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Field Experience
Anecdotal End User Comments:
•Fatigue in arms used to limit motorhometravel to 400 mi/day. With column drive,traveled 1500 mi in three days and was notfatigued.
•With column drive wife can sharemotorhome driving duties. Husband getsa break from driving, and wife enjoys thebreak in monotony.
•Column drive eliminated the need fortransit bus driver to take medication atnight to sleep.
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Torque vs. Angle Overlay
Angle Overlay (active steer)• Planetary gearset provides auxiliary
steering displacement input.• Can change ratio• Can modify vehicle dynamics• Most appropriate for off-center
portions of duty cycle (0.2-0.6g)• Good passenger car solution
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on-highway P&D
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> 0.1g
> 0.2g
Torque Overlay (closed loop control of ColumnDrive)•Electric motor provides auxiliary steering torque input.•Can mask input driveline nonlinearities•Most appropriate for on-center portions of duty cycle (<0.2g)•Good commercial vehicle solution
Angle Overlay and Torque Overlay are completely complementary.
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Conclusion
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Conclusions
• Commercial vehicle duty cycles are dominated by high speed lanemaintenance and low speed maneuvering modes, both of which can becharacterised by low lateral accelerations.
• ColumnDrive creates value in the high speed lane maintenance mode byincreasing on-center stiffness, reducing uncertainty and eliminating torquebias
• ColumnDrive creates value in the low speed maneuvering mode bydecreasing driver efforts and workload.
• High lateral acceleration applications of ColumnDrive more typical ofpassenger cars have not been developed or evaluated.