CPC B62D 65/04 (2013.01) [B60K 7/0007 (2013.01); B60K 23/00 (2013.01); B60K 26/00 (2013.01); B60W 10/08 (2013.01); B60W 10/18 (2013.01); B60W 10/20 (2013.01); B60W 10/22 (2013.01); B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); B60W 50/029 (2013.01); H04L 12/40 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0292 (2013.01); B60W 2556/10 (2020.02); H04L 2012/40273 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A vehicle corner module (VCM) mountable to a vehicle for regulating motion thereof, the vehicle comprising a vehicle-controller onboard the vehicle, the VCM comprising:
a. a wheel-hub for coupling a wheel to the VCM;
b. a plurality of sub-systems comprising at least two of a drive subsystem, a steering subsystem, a suspension subsystem and a braking subsystem; and
c. a VCM-controller onboard the VCM, comprising one or more processors and a computer-readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
i. establish a communication link with a vehicle-controller, wherein the establishing includes electronically transferring information about the VCM from the VCM-controller to the vehicle-controller, and
ii. perform, in response to an installation of the VCM on a vehicle, a post-installation validation-process that includes validating the plurality of subsystems and communicating a result of the validating to the vehicle-controller.
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