Slip or loss of traction detector using the third derivative of rotational speed difference (US Patent 8831853)

Patent number: 8831853 Kind code: B1 Granted: 2014-09-09 Filed: 2013-07-12 Inventors: Andrew Wyllie Barrowman (Coeur d'Alene, ID, US); Carl Robert Aron (Spokane, WA, US)

Abstract

The utilization in a vehicle of the third derivative of rotational speed differences to enable early detection of the likely development or actual initiation of a condition involving wheel slip or loss of traction between the wheel and the surface over which it is traveling and to provide