9: Automobile Cruise Control : Links

Audi - BMW - Buick - Chrysler - Daewoo - Ford - General Motors - Honda - Jaguar - Land Rover - Mercedes - Mitsubishi - Nissan - Renault - Toyota - Toyota/Lexus - Volvo

9.6. Alternatives to cruise control

(Speed Sensitive Accelerator)

"Understanding Automotive Electronics" Edition 5 by William B. Ribbens Newnes 1998 ISBN 0-7506-7008-8. Gives a clear presentation of various forms of analogue and digital cruise systems, all of which are functionally similar. (Editon 6 is now in print)
Automotive Electronics Handbook : Cruise Control Chapter 14, 2nd Edition 1999, Ronald K. Jurgen Editor, McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07034453-1
A general description of a cruise control system with electro- pneumatic actuator http://www.howstuffworks.com/cruise-control.htm and further links

Carnegie Mellon : Solution to the Cruise Control Problem Using PID control (simulation)

http://www.engin.umich.edu/group/ctm/examples/cruise/ccPID.html

Austin, W. Applications of the CA322E Speed Control System : Intersil Application Note 7326.1 April 1994 The CA3228E Speed Control System is a monlithic integrated circuit originally designed for automotive cruise control system. Special features of the CA3228E include control by a single command line. The Integrated circuit is now obsolete. Application note

Speed sensitive accelerator pedal - a claimed fail-safe alternative to cruise control (Alain Landerretche French inventor explains)

0: Cruise Control Home

1:Introduction

2:What is Cruise Control?

3: Principles

4: Functional aspects

5: What is Sudden Acceleration?

6: Incidence & Examples

7: Internal failure mechanisms

8: Discussion
of Failure Mechanisms

9: Links & References

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