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Abstract

A friction detecting device comprising running condition detector for detecting a running condition of a vehicle including a lateral acceleration acting on a gravity center of the vehicle, steering angle detector for detecting steering angle of front and rear wheels of the vehicle, vehicle speed sensor, memory for storing stability factors of the vehicle including a vehicle weight, respective distances between the gravity center and front and rear axles, cornering powers acting on the front and rear wheels at a standard condition and a yawing moment of inertia, control unit for obtaining a frictional coefficient .mu. of a road surface on which the vehicle is running by employing a following formula; .mu.=[V{m(a.sup.2 K.sub.F +b.sup.2 K.sub.R)+IK}s-mV.sup.2 (aK.sub.F -bK.sub.R)] a.sub.y /2cK.sub.F K.sub.R {V(b.delta..sub.F +a.delta..sub.R)s+V.sup.2 (.delta..sub.F -.delta..sub.R)-ca.sub.y } wherein a.sub.y is the lateral acceleration acting on the gravity center of the vehicle, .delta..sub.F is the steering angle of the front wheels, .delta..sub.R is the steering angle of the rear wheels, V is the vehicle speed, m is the vehicle weight, a is the distance between the gravity center of the vehicle and the front axle, b is the distance between the gravity center of the vehicle and the rear axle, K.sub.F, K.sub.R are the cornering powers for the front and rear wheels at the standard condition, I is the yawing moment of inertia of the vehicle, c=a+b, K=K.sub.F +K.sub.R and s is a laplacian operator.

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