ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,936, issued on July 28, was assigned to Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai).
"Reconfigurable steering feel design method and control system for steer-by-wire" was invented by Xiaodong Wu (Shanghai), Shuhan Liu (Shanghai) and Hangyu Lu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a reconfigurable steering feel design method and control system for steer-by-wire. The method includes: constructing a steering feel feedback model, the steering feel feedback model including an alignment torque module based on rack force observation, an assist torque module, a friction compensation torque module, a damping c...