The Effects of Yaw Rates on Torque Vectoring Systems

by Peter Scheuermann

Submitted : Fall 2017

Torque vectoring is a very interesting and highly debated technology in the automotive world with its highly radical uses and gains in the motorsports world. This technology has slowly been revolutionizing motorsports and track times and recently had exploded in uses and applications in the automotive sector. From fuel efficiency to track times, torque vectoring and its “watered-down” brother, the active differential, has changed automotive dynamics and the way a vehicle can efficiently stick to the road without changing materials or natures limiting touch, friction.

In this paper, I will outline the first step torque vectoring, the yaw rate and how it engages the torque vectoring system and why it is so important. The calculus behind how the yaw rate affects and engages the torque vectoring system is simple, elementary, and will be outlined through graphs and formulas used to calculate the input and output.

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