TRACTION CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A VEHICLE WITH INDEPENDENT DRIVES

摘要

A loader vehicle including a frame system, a plurality of wheels, a plurality of drive units and a controller. The plurality of wheels are subject to rapidly changing loads and are associated with the frame system. The plurality of drive units are each associated with a corresponding subset of at least one of the plurality of wheels. The controller is configured to compute a slip error for one of the plurality of wheels dependent on an integral term derived from a wheel speed of at least one other of the plurality of wheels. The controller computes a slip target value for the one wheel. The controller further uses the slip error and the slip target value to arrive at a command that is applied to the drive unit corresponding to the one wheel.