Abstract: A method of controlling steering of a vehicle through setting wheel angles of a plurality of modular electronic corner assemblies (eModules) is provided. The method includes receiving a driving mode selected from a mode selection menu. A position of a steering input device is determined in a master controller. A velocity of the vehicle is determined, in the master controller, when the determined position of the steering input device is near center. A drive mode request corresponding to the selected driving mode to the plurality of steering controllers is transmitted to the master controller. A required steering angle of each of the plurality of eModules is determined, in the master controller, as a function of the determined position of the steering input device, the determined velocity of the vehicle, and the selected first driving mode. The eModules are set to the respective determined steering angles.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 8, 2013
Publication date:
May 14, 2015
Applicants:
The U.S.A. As Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration, GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Inventors:
Andrew D. Dawson, William J. Bluethmann, Chunhao J. Lee, Robert L. Vitale, Raymond Guo, Venkata Prasad Atluri
Abstract: A method for fabricating a piezoelectric fiber sheet comprises providing a plurality of wafers of piezoelectric material, bonding the wafers together with an adhesive material to form a stack of alternating layers of piezoelectric material and adhesive material, and cutting through the stack in a direction substantially parallel to the thickness of the stack and across the alternating layers of piezoelectric material and adhesive material to provide at least one piezoelectric fiber sheet having two sides comprising a plurality of piezoelectric fibers in juxtaposition to the adhesive material.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 18, 2005
Publication date:
January 26, 2006
Applicant:
U.S.A as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration
Inventors:
W. Wilkie, Robert Bryant, Robert Fox, Richard Hellbaum, James High, Antony Jalink, Bruce Little, Paul Mirick