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Vehicles: Creative, Land, Mechanical
Microcontrollers: Microcontroller
Tags: v1.1.22
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NNTC Steering Box (Dynamic+Ackerman)

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NNTC Car Parts
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Description
Dynamic steering:

Steering sensitivity changes with speed. Configurable values include:

On/Off
Speed for minimum sensitivity
Minimum sensitivity

Ackerman steering:

Steering angle between left and right tires changes with steering angle, as the outer tires in a corner travel on a larger circle, which requires decreased steering angle on that specific tire. This increases steering effect and reduces speed loss and increases efficiency of light turns at highway speed. Longer cars require more muliplication factor. Configurable values include:

On/Off
Multiplication factor (1.3 is average for road cars)

Additional tuning:

Toe values are also tuneable. Leave these at zero for normal operation of normal cars, but for track driving you may want to adjust these values to fine tune oversteer and understeer.

Front toe out induces more oversteer and turn-in response, at the cost of high speed stability.
Front toe in induces some understeer, but it is a generally undesireable setting.
Rear toe out induces heavy oversteer, and is useless in sw so far.
Rear toe in increases high sped stability and can be used as a duct tape tactic on an oversteering car. Try other thing before doing this however like adding downforce for stability and splitting the weight 60/40 front/rear.

For more information, refer to this article which outlines in more detail for specific powertrains: https://suspensionsecrets.co.uk/adjust-tune-toe/

Configurable values:

On/Off
Front Toe
Rear Toe
11 Comments
nuteepa 12 Nov, 2022 @ 1:40pm 
Okay, thanks for answer. Anyway your controller are very nice!
thatcoolcat1  [author] 12 Nov, 2022 @ 12:14pm 
just because i am not using the mathematically perfect functions does not mean it is not ackerman steering. using a linear approximation gets most of the benefits for us without having to input wheelbase length and width.
nuteepa 12 Nov, 2022 @ 11:53am 
no. Ackerman is not just negative value from front wheels. Its something like this https://imgur.com/xTMd6jh
thatcoolcat1  [author] 12 Nov, 2022 @ 11:42am 
yes there is
the setting "multiplication factor" adjusts the multiplication of steering angle of the inner wheel
nuteepa 12 Nov, 2022 @ 10:59am 
There is no ackerman steeting.
thatcoolcat1  [author] 6 May, 2022 @ 6:14am 
just their steering value, same for both wheels as it adjusts toe
A. Moody 5 May, 2022 @ 9:56pm 
How do I connect the rear wheels to this MC?
thatcoolcat1  [author] 30 Apr, 2021 @ 5:47am 
No need to add a number, stormworks functions fine with no toe.

Toe is the angle inwards or outwards of the tires. It is an adjustment value used to stabilize a car in specific driving scenarios.

If you want to learn more: https://help.summitracing.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5257/~/what-is-toe%3F
[☆] Crafty 29 Apr, 2021 @ 7:36pm 
What does it mean by "front toe" and "back toe"? like how to I figure out what number to put there?