The development of Very Advanced Conversion (VAC) Technology have significant progress during teh 1990s. A driving actor behind this have been the increasing requirements for bettering of ride comfort and active safety of automotive vehicles (AV). The steering converts the steering wheel rotaty motion into the turn of the wheels of AVs. A major contribution to this progress is the application of mechatronically-controlled and electrically-powered Rack-and-Pinion (R&P) steering gears. As the conventional power boosted Four-Wheel-Steering (4WS) conversion sphere can only provide a constant assistance characteristics, whereas the AV ideally requires a variable boosting, the application of mechatronically-controlled and electrically-powerded rack & pinion steering gear will be introduced, mainly to adapt and predict the level of power boosting to the AV speed of travel. This paper to be intended to describe first the current state-of-the-art VAC Technology and then to show steps towards VAC spheres with the higher level of mechatronically control and greater complexity of the 4WS conversion spheres.


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    Title :

    Mechatronically-controlled & electrically-powered four-wheel-steering conversion spheres


    Additional title:

    Mechanisch-elektronisch geregelte und elektrisch betriebene Kraftübertragungen für Vierradlenkungen


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    8 Seiten, 3 Bilder, 20 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English