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The relative speed of each of the tires of a vehicle is monitored as an indication of the operating state of the vehicle, wherein if the vehicle is not operating in one of a number of predetermined states, the relative speed is monitored as an indication of relative pressure of the vehicle tires, and further wherein differences in relative speed not related to the predetermined states, and not related to differences in relative pressure, are accounted for. In addition, a single tire pressure sensor is employed to account for over or under inflation of substantially equal proportion in the tires.
1. A method for indicating a pressure loss condition in tires of a vehicle, each tire having a speed related to vehicle speed and to vehicle operating condition, the method comprising:
storing a predetermined number of tire speed patterns, each tire speed pattern representing relative tire speed conditions corresponding to a respective normal vehicle operating condition which results in tire speed variations;
storing a predetermined tire pressure for the tires;
storing a respective tire speed pressure loss pattern for each tire representing a relative tire speed condition when said tire is experiencing a pressure loss condition:
sensing the speed of each of the tires;
sensing the pressure of a single tire of the tires;
sensing if the vehicle is turning:
determining an actual tire speed pattern from the sensed speeds of the tires representing an actual relative tire speed condition; and
determining if the actual tire speed pattern corresponds to any one of the stored tire speed patterns based on whether or not the vehicle is turning, and
(A) if not, determining whether there is a pressure loss condition in the tires by comparing the actual tire speed pattern with the stored tire speed pressure loss patterns and indicating a pressure loss condition when the actual pattern corresponds to at least one of the stored tire speed pressure loss patterns, and
(B) if so, bypassing the step of determining whether there is a pressure loss condition.
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(A) determining whether there is a pressure loss condition in the tires in accord with the actual tire speed pattern and the sensed tire pressure, and
(B) if so, bypassing the step of determining whether there is a pressure loss condition.
6. An apparatus for indicating a pressure loss condition in tires of a vehicle, each tire having a speed related to vehicle speed and to vehicle operating condition comprising:
a first memory storage configured to store a predetermined number of tire speed patterns, each tire speed pattern representing relative tire speed conditions corresponding to a respective normal vehicle operating condition which results in tire speed variations;
a second memory storage configured to store a predetermined tire pressure for the tires;
a steering sensor configured to determine whether the vehicle is turning;
a wheel speed sensor comprising at least one of a wheel speed sensor a wheel rotation sensor, a wheel position sensor, a rotary encoder, a temperature sensor, a steering wheel, a differential, and a wheel slip sensor, in operable communication with each tire, each of the corresponding wheel speed sensor configured to sense the speed of each respective tire and generate a corresponding signal indicative thereof;
a single tire pressure sensor in operable communication with a single tire, said tire pressure sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a tire pressure of the single tire; and
a controller configured to receive the signals indicative of wheel speed and single tire pressure, the controller being configured to determine an actual tire speed pattern from the sensed speeds of the tires representing an actual relative tire speed condition, the controller being configured to compare the actual tire speed pattern to the stored tire speed patterns, and configured to compare the sensed tire pressure to the stored predetermined tire pressure,
wherein the controller determines whether there is a pressure loss condition of the tires in accord with the actual tire speed pattern and sensed tire pressure, the pressure loss condition being operative upon occurrence of at least one of the actual tire speed pattern not corresponding to any one of the stored tire speed patterns and the steering sensor indicating the vehicle is not turning.
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Motor vehicles are supported by inflatable tires having a desired inflation pressure. Improper inflation of a tire can lead to poor gas mileage and increased tire wear. Maintaining tire inflation within an acceptable range can alleviate these issues. To do so however, requires frequent measuring of tire pressure and evaluation of whether that pressure lies within an acceptable range. Moreover, tire pressure will also vary according to temperature and vehicle load.
There are several advantages to maintaining the pneumatic tires of an automobile at the inflation pressure recommended by the tire or vehicle manufacturer. Vehicle handling characteristics are maintained when all tires are inflated to the condition specified by the vehicle designer. The loss of pressure in one or more tires on the vehicle may result in less than optimum driver control. Inadvertent over-inflation of one or more tires may also result in less than optimum vehicle handling. Operating a vehicle with tire pressures outside the recommended inflation range can also reduce tire life due to excessive flexing and heating and resultant fatigue or wear. Tire pressure monitoring systems have been developed which alert the vehicle operator when the pressure in one or more of the tires fitted to the vehicle is outside a predetermined range.
Indeed, following an increase in public awareness of the potential consequences of operating tires outside the manufacturers recommended pressure range, legislation has been introduced such as proposed FMVSS 138 which requires that a tire pressure monitoring system be installed as original equipment on all new vehicles sold in the United States after November 2003.
While several tire pressure-monitoring methods have been proposed, two general approaches have been favored. One is indirect and relies on the determination of the rolling radius of each hub and tire assembly (and often linked to the anti-lock brake system (ABS) of the vehicle). The second is direct and relies on the wireless transmission of a signal from a transducer module installed in the pressurized cavity of each tire. Such systems work well for their intended purposes, but there are disadvantages.
The rolling radius method relies on the signals generated by wheel rotation sensors, typically installed as part of an anti-lock braking system. The rolling radius represents the actual radius from the center of the tire to the generally flattened area of the tire in contact with the ground. Because of the flattening at the point of contact of the tire and the road or surface, the rolling radius measures smaller than the nominal radius of the tire as manufactured or unloaded, since the nominal radius does not account for variation in pressure within the tire and load on the tire. Since the rotational speed of each wheel is known accurately, the rolling radius of the hub and tire assembly mounted at each wheel can be inferred. This system of tire pressure monitoring (frequently referred to in the art as ABS-tire pressure monitoring) does not, however, provide absolute values of pressure, nor does it provide tire temperature information. If all of the tires on the vehicle were to lose pressure equally over time, such a system may fail to detect a reduction in pressure in any tire. Also, this system requires that data be gathered over some minimum number of wheel rotations in order to allow tire temperatures to equalize to some extent, to determine relative rolling radii, and then to approximate each tire pressure. This type of system is not well suited to anything other than installation as original equipment. While this type of system is a low cost addition to a vehicle equipped with anti-lock brakes, it has many performance shortcomings. One of the major deficiencies of this system is that if all tires are over or under inflated, the differential wheel speed measurements between wheels are not capable of detecting the condition.
The direct sensing method requires the installation of a wireless module in contact with the gas within the pressurized cavity of each tire and hub assembly. A matched receiving module is installed on a fixed portion of the vehicle such that the transmitted data may be processed and presented to the vehicle operator as required. A receiver may be positioned within each wheel well of the vehicle, in which case it is necessary to install one receiver for each monitored tire on the vehicle, or, a single receiver may be placed approximately centrally within the vehicle, such as at the interior rearview mirror location. The significant disadvantage of multiple receivers is the high additional cost. Additionally, installation is difficult unless installed as original equipment.
Thus, there is a need for an improved tire pressure monitoring system that overcomes the above disadvantages.
Disclosed generally herein is a method and apparatus for determining the pressure of the vehicle tires via the sensed speed of the vehicle wheels and the tire pressure of a single tire. The present invention substantially reduces its susceptibility to false alarms by determining whether a variation in wheel speed is due to some external factor, or is due to a loss in pressure in one or more tires. Further, the present invention discloses a cost effective means for tire pressure monitoring without employing a pressure sensor in each tire, such that using a differential wheel speed algorithm in conjunction with a single tire pressure sensor allows determination of over or under inflation even if all of the tires are over/under inflated to the same level.
To effectively reduce the risk of false alarms in the system caused by external factors, the present invention generally develops predetermined models of the relationship between the individual wheel speed values for a variety of operating scenarios. The scenarios are those that would cause notable wheel speed variations not attributable to loss of tire pressure, such as the above-described external factors. The models thus developed are made available to the routine in accord with the present invention, and are compared to the sensed speed of the individual wheels. Generally, from this comparison, if it is determined that the vehicle is operating in such a manner that the present wheel speed data is not useful for the determination of tire pressure, the data is discarded, and the present iteration of the routine is terminated.
Otherwise, the wheel speed data and single tire pressure data are compared to predetermined models of what the data should resemble if there is at least a threshold loss of pressure in a vehicle tire. If this comparison indicates a sufficient loss of tire pressure, the routine provides an indication thereof to the vehicle operator, who can then take appropriate action.
The above described and other features are exemplified by the following figures and detailed description.
Referring now to the figures wherein the like elements are numbered alike:
The inflation pressure of conventional automotive tires is related to the tire radius in that, to an extent, increasing the tire pressure increases the radius. Further, tire radius is related to tire rotation speed in that, for a given vehicle speed, the tire rotation speed will increase as the tire radius decreases. Accordingly, by relating the tire (wheel) speed of the vehicle tires to each other, all of which are subject to a common vehicle speed, information on the tire radius and thus on the individual tire inflation pressure is made available.
Vehicles are available that already have the necessary hardware for constant monitoring of wheel speed of each of the vehicle's wheels. Accordingly, to implement a system that determines tire pressure status purely on wheel speed information may be relatively inexpensive, as generally only an algorithm to interpret the already available wheel speed data, and perhaps a low pressure indicating means is needed.
Unfortunately, wheel speed information can indicate things other than deviations in tire pressure. For instance, wheel speed variations may be experienced when the vehicle is turning, is accelerating or decelerating, is going up or down steep grades, when at least one of the vehicle wheels is slipping, or when there is a cross wind bearing in the vehicle. Furthermore, wheel speed information may not indicate deviations in tire pressure when any deviation is substantially the same for all tires involved. For example, if after a period of time, each tire loses the same amount of pressure or each is under inflated to substantially the same value, relative wheel speed information is inadequate to detect such a condition.
These �external factors�, unless properly accounted for, can erode the accuracy of the pressure monitoring system, and can cause false indications of low tire pressure or fail to indicate the same. Further, idiosyncrasies in the vehicle itself may bias the individual wheel speed values, increasing the potential for false indications of pressure loss. Such biases are typically difficult to account for, for instance by a predetermined model of vehicle behavior, as the biases are often vehicle specific, and can change in unpredictable ways throughout the life of the vehicle.
In response to the above-described external factors, the present invention compensates therefore by detecting when the factors are at work, and by dismissing the data skewed thereby as not being indicative of loss of tire pressure. Further, the present invention develops an adaptive model of the behavior of the wheel speed information in the absence of external factors, and in the absence of detected leaks in the tires. The model is continuously updated so as to make available an updated account of the vehicle bias not due to external factors or tire leaks. The present invention uses this information to further screen the wheel speed data in conjunction with a known tire pressure with respect to one of the tires.
The hardware necessary to sense and process the wheel speed at the four wheels is shown in
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The term �tire,� as used herein, refers to the tire and hub combination or assembly, which is mounted to a wheel of the vehicle. Also, the term �wheel� refers to the particular rotatable portion of the corner assembly or the like of the vehicle. Each wheel includes the lugs or studs extending therefrom (on which the hub and tire is mounted) and may include the rotor or drum of the brake system of the vehicle. The tires and any associated sensor 15 may be rotated or moved from one wheel of the vehicle to another, while the wheels remain generally fixedly positioned at the respective corners of the vehicle.
Sensor 15 may be installed by strapping or otherwise attaching the sensor to the hub rim within the tire, by replacing the tire valve stem with a combined tire valve and sensing module, or by attachment of the sensor to the exterior of the existing tire valve, or by any other means which mounts or positions the sensor at least partially within or in communication with the pressurized chamber of the tire, without affecting the scope of the present invention. Sensor 15 may be battery powered, may use wheel motion to generate power, or may rely on induction from a source mounted on a fixed portion of the vehicle, without affecting the scope of the present invention. Sensor 15 preferably incorporates a pressure transducer, a temperature sensing means, a processor to encode data in a format unique to the module, and a transmitter, such as an RF transmitter or the like.
Controller 12 includes an antenna (not shown, such as a radio frequency or RF antenna) and receiver circuitry for the tire pressure signal wirelessly broadcast from sensor 15 (as shown in
Preferably, the location or wheel at which the particular pressure sensor 15 and tire is mounted is stored in the controller's memory when the vehicle is shut off, such that the location or wheel at which sensor 15 is positioned is known at the time of the next start up of the vehicle. Upon starting and driving the vehicle, controller 12 may compare the pressure output data from the sensor with the particular deduced characteristic pattern or signature associated with the previously known sensor location or wheel. If the measured pressure matches the pattern or signature at the previous location or wheel at which the sensor and tire was located, the control need not make any further comparison of the pressure data with other patterns of deduced characteristics, since the control may conclude that the position of the tires on the vehicle has not changed from the previously known location (i.e., the tires were not rotated while the ignition was off). However, if the patterns do not match, the controller may then compare the pressure sensor output with each of the other characteristic patterns or signatures for each of the other wheel locations via wheel speed sensors 10 a-10 d, in order to determine the new wheel or location of the particular tire and sensor. After the wheel or location is determined, controller 12 may display the pressure output from the pressure sensor 15 and the corresponding location or wheel of the output on a display or indicating means 18. By only conducting further comparisons of the patterns or signatures of the position of the sensor (and tire) appears to have changed, the tire pressure monitoring system of the present invention provides a quick confirmation of the location of the pressure sensor and tire without further evaluation of data unless such further evaluation is necessary to determine the new wheel or location of the pressure sensor and tire.
The wheel speed information from wheel speed sensors 10 a-10 d is used to determine first whether the vehicle is operating in a manner wherein it is assumed that reliable tire pressure information is available from the wheel speed data. If reliable information is available, the wheel speed data is used to determine whether there has been a recent pressure loss in one of the vehicle tires in conjunction with the tire pressure output. The vehicle operator is notified via indicating means 18 if such a loss is found.
The routines used to process the wheel speed information so as to make the above-described determinations are illustrated in
After the initialization block, the routine proceeds to block 24 where interrupts are enabled, such as by resetting the interrupt mask bit in the condition code register. Next, the routine proceeds to a background loop at block 26, which is continuously repeated. This loop may include, for example, diagnostic and maintenance routines. In this embodiment, the background routine is interrupted every 100 milliseconds to execute the routine used to carry out the blocks specifically embodying the principles of this invention.
This routine is illustrated in
The routine then proceeds to block 46 to calculate [PD], which is a matrix of adjusted delta speed patterns, according to the following equation:
The routine next proceeds to block 48, to determine [PS], which is a matrix representing the summation of calculated [PD] matrices over a predetermined period of time. In this embodiment, the [PD] matrix is calculated every 100milliseconds, per the above-described iteration rate of the routine illustrated in
After determining the [PS] matrix, the routine moves to block 50, to compare each of the constituent elements of the [PS] matrix to a predetermined deadband value δ. This comparison is a means by which it may be efficiently determined at an early point in the execution of the routine whether the entries in the [PS] matrix indicate that the vehicle is not experiencing any excursions from what is assumed to be maneuver-free and leak-free operation. In other words, the inventors have determined that early on in this detailed analysis of wheel speed information, a relatively simple check can be made on the delta wheel speed information, by which the routine may ascertain that no suspicious activity is going on which may give rise to a later detection of a loss of pressure in one of the vehicle tires.
Accordingly, if all of the elements of the [PS] matrix are less than the deadband value δ, the routine of
To carry out this further analysis, the routine proceeds to block 52, to normalize the [PS] matrix. The normalization process is merely a means to condition the elements of [PS] so as to provide a basis of comparison to likewise normalized predetermined comparison values. The process used in this embodiment is one recognized as a standard means of mathematical normalization, specifically, dividing each of the elements of the [PS] matrix by the absolute value of the element thereof with the largest magnitude. The normalized matrix, designated [PS]′, has six elements, PS1′ through PS6′, all of which necessarily have a magnitude less than or equal to one.
The inventors contemplate that the above-described normalization process is merely one means of providing a basis of comparison between the elements of the [PS] matrix and likewise normalized values, and that other means of providing a basis of comparison may be equally suited for the purposes of this routine, and could be substituted at block 52without departing from the true spirit of this invention.
The routine next proceeds to block 54, to calculate four characterization values. These values are derived from the elements of the normalized wheel speed pattern matrix [PS′], and characterize the vehicle behavior as described by the most recent one second of wheel speed data. The information is characterized so as to indicate whether the vehicle is in an operating state which normally has such a deleterious effect on the content of the wheel speed data that it is unlikely that any useful information will be available from that wheel speed data on the pressure of the vehicle tires.
Once the characterization values are calculated, if it is determined that the vehicle is operating in such a state, the routine will simply discard the most recent wheel speed information as being substantially valueless for the purposes of this routine, and will return to the background routine of
Specifically to carry out this process, the routine at block 54 calculates characterization values for vehicle maneuvers, such as an acceleration value ra, a deceleration value rd, a left turn value rl, and a right turn value rr, according to the following equations:
For instance, a value of 0 indicates the speed of the two wheels normally will be substantially the same in the indicated operating condition. A value of −1 indicates that the second wheel has a greater speed than the first, and a value of 1 indicates that the first wheel has a greater speed than the second in the indicated operating condition. The ordering of the wheels for this purpose is as was described in the calculation of [PD] at block 46 of the routine of
Similarly, [PD], [PL], and [PR] characterize the wheel speed relationships during deceleration, left turn, and right turn, respectively. Furthermore, the inventors intend that other characterizations may be determined at this step beyond the four mentioned, that likewise may have a deleterious effect on the value of the wheel speed information, such as the presence of wind with a substantial cross-wind component, severe uphill or downhill travel, or operation with a tire slip condition. Matrices characterizing these additional external factors may be included herein without departing from the true spirit of this invention.
After determining the characterization values at step 54, the routine proceeds to step 56, to determine a [Δ1] matrix according to the following equation:
These recognition threshold values represent the approximate minimum magnitude of the recognition values ra, rd, rl, and rr that correspond to a material maneuver, which is a maneuver determined to be so substantial that the wheel speed information available while that maneuver is taking place is, in the context of tire pressure detection, substantially valueless. As mentioned, the inventors intend that other recognition values, and recognition threshold values could be included here, which also have a negative effect on the value of the wheel speed information vis-a-vis tire pressure detection.
Accordingly, if any recognition value exceeds or is equal to its corresponding recognition threshold value, the wheel speed data as determined and conditioned at the preceding blocks 42 through 54 is assumed to be so skewed that information on the present tire pressure either is not available from that data, or is too difficult to reproduce therefrom for the purposes of this routine. Accordingly, the data is discarded.
Specifically, the routine at block 56, determines the elements of the [Δ1] matrix by subtracting the recognition threshold values from their corresponding recognition values, as shown above. Next, at block 58, if any of the elements of the [Δ1] matrix are greater than or equal to zero, indicating that the wheel speed information may be skewed by a recent vehicle operating condition, the routine proceeds to block 78, to return to the background routine of
Alternatively, if all of the elements of the [Δ1] matrix are less than zero, the vehicle is assumed to be operating in a sufficiently stable operating condition that valuable tire pressure information may still be available from the wheel speed data. Accordingly, the routine proceeds to blocks 59 through 76, to determine whether there is a substantial loss of pressure in any of the vehicle tires.
The routine thus proceeds to block 59, to store the elements of the [PS] matrix in controller random access memory 14 for future use. Next, the routine advances to block 60 to determine [PM], which is a matrix representing a sampling of delta wheel speed behavior over a predetermined period of time. For example, in this embodiment, the [PM] matrix is a summation of the ten most recent [PS] matrices and, as such represents a sampling of the delta wheel speed information over the most recent 10seconds of operation.
The routine next moves to block 61, to store the elements of the [PM] matrix in controller random access memory 14 for later use. The routine proceeds next to block 62, to normalize the elements of the [PM] matrix, by dividing each [PM] element by the absolute value of the [PM] element with the largest magnitude, in the manner described above at block 52 of the routine of
Next, the routine advances to block 64, to calculate rllf, rlrf, rIlb, and rlrb, which are indicative of the degree of pressure degradation in each of the four tires of the vehicle. In other words, these four values are in such form that they indicate the tire pressure of each of the four vehicle tires. They generally are based on the aggregate deviation of the delta wheel speeds from a predetermined set of wheel speeds indicative of leaks in each of the four tires of the vehicle. They specifically are determined from the following equations:
For instance, a value of 0 indicates the speed of the two wheels is substantially the same. A value of −1 indicates that the second wheel has a greater speed than the first, and a value of 1 indicates that the first wheel has a greater speed than the second. The ordering of the wheels for this purpose is as was described in the calculation of [PD] at block 46 of the routine of
Similarly, the [PLRF], [PLLB], and [PLRB] matrices characterize the wheel speed relationships with low pressure in the right front, left rear, and right rear tires, respectively. The six values in each of these matrices are normalized to illustrate the trend in comparative wheel speeds under the aforementioned leaks, and are shown specifically in
Accordingly, the four calculated values are summations of delta speed deviations for all of the delta speed values, between the present vehicle operating condition and the operating condition as should be expected for a leak in the front left tire, the front right tire, the left rear tire and the right rear tire, as discussed. After calculating the four values, the routine moves to block 66, to calculate a [Δ2] matrix, according to the following equation:
These recognition threshold values represent the approximate minimum magnitude of the recognition values rllf, rlrf, rllb, and rlrb that correspond to a minimum leak, which is a leak determined to be of a degree that it can be detected and should be addressed. Accordingly, if any recognition value exceeds or is equal to its corresponding recognition threshold value, a leak of at least minimum size is assumed, and the vehicle operator is notified thereof.
Specifically, the routine at block 66, calculates the elements of the [Δ2] matrix, by subtracting the recognition threshold values from their corresponding recognition values as shown above. Next, at block 68, if any of the elements of the [Δ2] matrix are greater than or equal to zero, indicating the presence of at least one leak, the routine proceeds to block 70, to indicate the leak condition to the operator of the vehicle via a conventional indicating means 18, such as by illuminating a descriptive warning light on the instrument panel of the vehicle, or by sounding an aural alert in the vehicle cabin.
Further, the inventors intend that the leak indicating means may include means for distinguishing critical information on the leak itself, and apprising the vehicle operator of that information. For example, included in this information could be the location of the leak, which may be determined from the specific element of the [Δ2] matrix that is greater than or equal to zero as determined at block 68, or further the magnitude of the leak, which may be determined from the degree of deviation from zero at block 68, or still further the time history of the magnitude of the leak. Preferably, the magnitude of the leak may be determined more accurately by incorporating the pressure sensor 15 output in conjunction with a predetermined tire pressure. In this manner, regardless of whether the leak coincides with the tire having sensor 15 therewith, the magnitude of the leak may be more accurately defined. After apprising the driver of the detected leak, the routine proceeds to block 78, where it is directed to return to the background routine illustrated in
Alternatively, if all of the elements of the [Δ2] matrix are less than zero, it is assumed that there are no material leaks in the vehicle tires, and the routine proceeds to block 71 to determine if a tire pressure indicated by sensor 15 indicates a pressure materially higher or lower than a predetermined optimum pressure. For example, if the operator parks the vehicle for an extended period of time in elevated temperatures, all of the tires may substantially deflate in equal proportion. In this case, all of the elements of the [Δ2] matrix are less than zero and will not indicate substantial deflation of the four tires since they have deflated proportionally. By incorporating tire pressure sensor 15with the above described algorithm, such a condition may be detected. For instance at block 71, if a delta tire pressure (ΔTP) is less than or greater than a predetermined threshold value, then block 70 indicates a low/high pressure value depending on the sign of ΔTP. The ΔTP is the predetermined optimum tire pressure minus the actual tire pressure indicated by tire pressure sensor 15. If the resulting difference is a positive value, block 70 indicates low pressure while if the difference is negative, a high pressure is indicate at block 70.If the absolute value of delta TP is within the predetermined threshold, then block 72 determines if a tire reset has occurred since the last execution of block 72. A tire reset occurs either manually or automatically when the tires or wheels of the vehicle are changed.
The inventors have determined that a tire change will so substantially affect the elements of the vehicle offset matrix [VO], that upon a tire or wheel change, prior vehicle offset information will be substantially obsolete. As such, upon a tire or wheel change, old information contributing to the calculation of the elements of the [VO] matrix will be discarded, and only information accrued since the change will be factored into the determination of the [VO] matrix. As stated, the reset may be made manually, such as by switch actuation by the vehicle operator or by the tire or wheel change technician, or may be made automatically, such as by a switch actuated when the vehicle tires or wheels are changed.
Accordingly, if at block 72, a reset has occurred, the routine proceeds to block 74, to clear the elements of the prior [VO] matrix in controller memory. Next, or if there has not been a reset, the routine proceeds to block 76, to update the vehicle offset matrix [VO], according to the following equation:
Such values are aggregated and scaled by the present vehicle speed at block 76, the scaling being required due to the dependence of the magnitude of the delta wheel speed values on overall vehicle speed. The resultant values are subtracted from delta wheel speed data at block 46, before that data is used for the purposes of this invention. The six constituent elements of the [VO] matrix are scaled sums including all delta speed values determined and stored from the last tire reset, subject to three constraints.
First, as is obvious from the flow of
Accordingly, subject to the above-described three constraints, the vehicle offset is determined at block 76, after which the routine returns to the background routine of
In an alternative embodiment and referring to
In the above described embodiments, it will be recognized that a vehicle having an antilock brake system (ABS) merely needs to add one tire pressure sensor 15, since the ABS system already includes wheel speed sensors 10 a-10 d with respective wheels for operation of the ABS system. To that end, by adding a single tire pressure sensor 15 to one of the four wheels and using the existing algorithm, a determination that not only is a tire is low, but also which one, and by approximately how much based on the differential speed of the tire with the tire pressure sensor and any other wheel. Also, the condition of all four tires being low, or high, can be immediately detected due to the available direct measurement afforded by tire pressure sensor 15.The cost of adding one tire pressure sensor as opposed to adding four tire pressure sensors provides a substantial cost savings when considering a possible future mandate by the Department of Transportation to have such tire pressure monitoring systems, which entails incorporation in about 16 million cars per year in the United States.
While the invention has been described with reference to an exemplary embodiment, it will be understood that by those skilled in the art the various changes may be made and equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof without departing from the scope of the invention. In addition, many modifications may be made to adapt a particular situation or material to the teachings of the invention without departing from the essential scope thereof. Therefore, it is intended that the invention not be limited to the particular embodiment disclosed as the best mode contemplated for carrying out this invention, but that the invention will include all embodiments falling within the scope of the appended claims.
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Tom McClintock, U.S. House of Representatives, California, fourth district
When California recalled Gov. Gray Davis from office in 2004 and had to choose a replacement, Tom McClintock, then a state senator, was the pick of right-wing true believers who thought the eventual winner, movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican in name only. Elected to Congress in 2008 and now running for a third term, McClintock still takes an interest in state legislation; on his campaign website he has promoted the effort to repeal a California law mandating the inclusion of LGBT people and accomplishments in public school curricula. The law, he said, represents "a gross overreach by the state Legislature to usurp the parental rights of Californians" and "exposes young children to curriculums and textbooks promoting objectionable lifestyles." So far, however, the repeal effort has failed.
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Beloved professor, mentor and friend, Dr. John "Jack" E. Pinkerton, 70, went into the hands of our Heavenly Father on Wednesday, May 6, 2009. He was a faithful servant who gave himself completely to his Savior, his family, his church and Geneva College.
A professor of electrical engineering, Dr. Pinkerton served the Geneva College community for over four decades. Among his many accomplishments was shepherding the college through the threshold of information technology. In 1973, he helped establish the Geneva College Center for Technology Development, and served as its director. The center provides engineering support for local companies who lack the resources to develop their ideas.
"It will be impossible to replace 'Doc,'" says Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Ken Carson. "His dedication to the college, to his department and colleagues, and to his students is the stuff of legends. And so we grieve. Not for Jack, who is now home with his Lord and Savior, but for ourselves and for his many loved ones who remain."
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George Will: The vigorous virtues of Margaret Thatcher
She had the smooth, cold surface of a porcelain figurine, but her decisiveness made her the most formidable woman in 20th-century politics, and England's most formidable woman since its greatest sovereign, Elizabeth I. The Argentine junta learned of her decisiveness when it seized the Falklands. The British, too, learned. A Tory MP said, "She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag."
She aimed to be the moral equivalent of military trauma, shaking her nation into vigor through rigor. As stable societies mature, they resemble long-simmering stews - viscous and lumpy with organizations resistant to change and hence inimical to dynamism. Her program was sound money, laissez faire, social fluidity and upward mobility through self-reliance and other "vigorous virtues." She is the only prime minister whose name came to denote a doctrine - Thatcherism. ("Churchillian" denotes not a political philosophy but a leadership style.) When she left office in 1990, the trade unions had been tamed by democratizing them, the political argument was about how to achieve economic growth rather than redistribute wealth, and individualism and nationalism were revitalized.
And the Labour Party, shellacked three times, was ready for a post-socialist leader. Tony Blair was part of Thatcher's legacy.
Time was, Labour considered itself the party of ideas and Tories preferred balancing interests to implementing political philosophy. But by the 1970s, Labour was a creature of a single interest group, the unions, and the Tories, who made Thatcher their leader in 1975, were becoming, as America's Republicans were becoming, a party of ideas.
Britain has periodically been a laboratory for economic ideas - those of Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, the socialism of postwar Labour. Before the ascendancy of Thatcher - a disciple of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek - Tories tried to immunize Britain against socialism by administering prophylactic doses of the disease. But by 1979, Britain's fundamental political arrangements were at issue: Such was the extortionate power of the unions to paralyze the nation, the writ of Parliament often seemed not to run beyond a few acres along the Thames.
In 1979, she won the most lopsided election since 1945, when there had not been an election for 10 years. In 1983, she became the first Tory since 1924 to win two consecutive elections. In 1987, she won a third. Her 12 consecutive years were an achievement without precedent since the 1832 Reform Act moved Britain, gingerly, toward mass democracy. The most consequential peacetime prime minister since Disraeli, by 1990 she had become the first prime minister to govern through an entire decade since the Earl of Liverpool from 1812 to 1827.
In Britain and America in the 1960s and 1970s, government's hubris expanded as its competence shrank. Like her soul mate, Ronald Reagan, Thatcher practiced the politics of psychotherapy, giving her nation a pride transplant. Reagan was responding to 17 lacerating years - Dallas, Vietnam, Watergate, stagflation, the Iranian hostage crisis. She was sick and tired of three decades of Britain being described as the Ottoman Empire once was, as "the sick man of Europe." She set about disrupting settled attitudes and arrangements by enlarging and energizing the middle class, the great engine of social change in every modern society.
Before Thatcher, Britain's economic problems often were ascribed to national character, and hence were thought immune to remediation. Thatcher thought national character was part of the problem, but that national character is malleable, given bracing economic medicine. Marx's ghost, hovering over his grave in London's Highgate Cemetery, must have marveled at this Tory variant of economic determinism.
When Nature was serving up charm and convictions, Thatcher took a double serving of the latter, leaving little room on her plate for the former. But by what has been called her "matriarchal machismo" she usefully demonstrated that a soothing personality is not always necessary in democracy.
Like de Gaulle, she was a charismatic conservative nationalist who was properly resistant to what she called the European federalists' attempts to "suppress nationhood and concentrate power at the center of a European conglomerate." She left the British this ongoing challenge: "We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level." As long as her brave heart beat, she knew there are no final victories.
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Grand Old Barns
Old barns capture my attention
As I drive across the land
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The Frenchman had to fight for a contract after being released by AC Milan but is now providing the bite in Gunners' midfield
Published: 23 September 2013
Updated: 13:05, 23 September 2013
Mesut Ozil lived up to his billing as the king of the assists against Stoke but another of Arsenal's summer signings is making a more understated yet equally important contribution to their promising start.
Mathieu Flamini's return to the Gunners was ridiculed in many quarters as the move of a desperate manager enduring ongoing frustration in the summer transfer market.
Arsene Wenger needed to bolster his squad and yet the frustrated pursuit of several players, including Bayern Munich's defensive midfielder Luiz Gustavo, led Flamini's return to escalate from an informal use of the club's training facilities to a three-year deal.
Wenger later admitted he had no intention of re-signing Flamini and only a change in circumstances brought about what no looks like a no-brainer of a deal, especially given the 29-year-old Frenchman was without a club after leaving AC Milan.
"I was missing the Premier League and I had unfinished business with the club," Flamini told Standard Sport. "I had great memories here so, of course, it was a very special moment for me to come back. Here I feel like I never left. The team has an amazing spirit. I feel good on the pitch and outside the players are very close to each other and I think that makes a difference.
"I was not planning to sign. Milan offered me a two-year contract extension. I didn't agree on it because I wanted a minimum of three years. I am 29 years old, I have three good years in front of me.
"So I came here. It was an important decision for me to decide where I wanted to go. It could have been Italy, Germany or England but I came to Arsenal to work with the fitness coach Tony Colbert. I did that for about a month and day after day I felt better and better and it happened. I am happy I came back. I am happy it is going well and I feel good in the team.
"The manager played a big role in my decision because he was the one who took me here when I was in France. He was the one who introduced me to the top level, to the Premier League and the Champions League so, of course, to have the possibility to work again with him, it was important. And also it is important to still have him at the club because the players are behind him, everyone believes in his vision of the game and in the game against Stoke, it proved he was right."
Aaron Ramsey continued his fine start to the season in yesterday's 3-1 win, while Ozil's arrival has enhanced Arsenal's inventiveness in the final third but Flamini is the player who has helped instil a more regimented balance to the team's play.
It was evident from the moment he entered the fray on his debut against Tottenham that Flamini was ready to inject organisation and discipline into Arsenal's play. No longer can they be accused of lacking leadership — Flamini has barked his orders as if he had never been away and that influence did not go unnoticed by Sky television, which gave him the man-of-the-match award against Stoke despite plenty of other prominent candidates.
"I am just trying to be myself on and off the pitch," he said. "The group is great, the spirit is great. Of course, communication on the pitch is important and you have to work for each other and make an effort for your partner because afterwards everything goes well.
"Like yesterday, it was not easy in the last 20 minutes — we were tired, we had to play Champions League. We had three games in one week but once again, when it went 1-1, we found the solution with two other goals and stayed strong defensively.
"Team spirit makes the difference because the Premier League is not a sprint, it is a marathon. This season is going to be long, we are going to need everyone."
Flamini's first spell at the club coincided with their last trophy. The Gunners won two honours during his four-year stay — although Flamini was not in the matchday squad for the 2005 FA Cup Final success or the Community Shield win at the beginning of that season — and he believes Arsenal are finally in position to end that drought. "It is not easy to look at that because eight years without winning anything is not easy for anyone, for the fans, for the players, for the club or the coach," he said. "But the quality is here. Maybe it was missing just a few things.
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Sonnenblick Industries Inc. has proposed financing the development of two hotels at Sacramento International Airport, three years after plans for an airport hotel were scrapped because of the flailing economy.
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors is set Wednesday to consider negotiating an agreement with the Pacific Palisades company for the design, development and operation of two hotels on airport grounds.
If the board agrees to move forward on such a project with Sonnenblick Industries, airport staff would begin negotiations with the company to finalize other terms and conditions, such as rent. The board would consider a more fully negotiated agreement at a later date.
Sacramento International Airport opened a $1 billion terminal last fall, replacing a structure that is four decades old with a much larger terminal and concourse. The Big Build was the largest public works project in Sacramento history.
What had been a nearly $1.3 billion project shrank to $1 billion after airport executives shelved plans for a hotel and parking garage.
Sacramento International had a hotel on site before the new Terminal B was constructed. The former Host Sacramento Airport Hotel closed in August 2008 and was leveled to make room for the new terminal.
Meanwhile, the Sacramento County Airport System has been researching the possibility of bringing back a hotel since early last year. The airport system hired Dallas-based Corgan Associates Inc. to identify potential hotel sites. Corgan identified a site between terminals A and B, and another between Terminal B and the airside concourse.
The county moved ahead Nov. 3, issuing a request for proposals. Sonnenblick's proposal was the only one submitted by the Jan. 30 deadline.
Sonnenblick proposes two hotels, with 132 and 200 rooms. One hotel would feature a 20,400-square-foot conference and meeting space, business center, pool, full-service spa and fitness center.
Sonnenblick proposes a "strong development team" of three primary companies:
- Los Angeles-based real estate development firm Sonnenblick Development would be responsible for financing, marketing and public relations. The company is known for creating unique and innovative lease and financing structures, and for projects such as The Ritz Carlton Hotel in Pasadena and the Los Angeles World Trade Center.
- Gold River-based Tricorp Hearn Construction Inc. would be the general contractor. Local hotel projects have included Le Rivage Hotel on the Sacramento River, Hyatt Place Hotel at the University of California Davis and the Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel West Sacramento.
- San Francisco-based RYS Architects would provide architectural services. Local projects have included the Best Western in Rancho Cordova and Homewood Suites by Hilton in Natomas.
Sonnenblick has proposed financing both hotels. The company's proposal estimates gross revenue of $19.2 million in the first year and $30.4 million by year 10, according to a county staff report.
Melanie Turner covers energy, medical/biotechnology, agriculture, transportation and manufacturing for the Sacramento Business Journal.
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