196results about "Cruise control" patented technology

A method for controller vehicle propulsion. The method includes identifying at least one route characteristic of a portion of a most probable path, determining a vehicle energy consumption profile for a vehicle based on at least historical data indicating energy consumption of the vehicle for at least a portion of a route previously traversed by the vehicle having at least one route characteristic corresponding to the at least one route characteristic of the portion of the most probable path, and determining, for the most probable path, a route energy consumption profile based on the at least one route characteristic of the portion of the most probable path and the vehicle energy consumption profile. The method also includes determining a target vehicle speed profile based on the at least one route characteristic and the vehicle energy consumption profile and selectively controlling vehicle propulsion based on the target vehicle speed profile.

The present disclosure generally relates to managing cruise control settings. A cruise control indicator is displayed at a location that corresponds to a cruise control speed concurrently with a textual indication of the cruise control speed. In response to receiving an input to change the cruise control speed, the cruise control indicator and the textual indication of the cruise control speed move along at least a portion of the path corresponding to speed.

The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method for operating an autonomous vehicle based on sensor data representative of an area in a driving direction of and in the vicinity of the vehicle. The vehicle is equipped with a control unit adapted to determine if a plurality of detailed actions to be performed by the vehicle successfully may be used for fulfilling a desired general action plan for the vehicle. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding control system and to a computer program product.

A method controls an at least partially autonomous ego motor vehicle having a positive driving behavior in the event of turning off or a lane change of a relevant road user. The method includes determining a current shortest distance between the ego motor vehicle and the relevant road user, determining a safety measure which contains a collision probability, determining an ideal speed of the ego motor vehicle at which a predefined safety measure is attainable, and determining a speed-based adjustment value for acceleration and / or deceleration of the ego motor vehicle based on the ideal speed. The method further includes determining a distance-based adjustment value for acceleration and / or deceleration of the ego motor vehicle based on a hazard factor kept available by the storage unit, selecting between the speed-based adjustment value and the distance-based adjustment value, and controlling deceleration or acceleration of the ego motor vehicle.

A vehicle drive assist apparatus includes: an external environment recognizer; a vehicle-speed adjustment switch that adjusts a set vehicle speed for constant-speed travel control; and a vehicle speed controller that increases or decreases the set vehicle speed by a unit vehicle speed every time the switch is tapped, calculates a target acceleration rate based on a basic acceleration characteristic, and adjusts a vehicle speed to the set vehicle speed by using the target acceleration rate. When the set vehicle speed is so as to increase in response to the tapping and the set vehicle speed is above or equal to a speed limit, the controller calculates a first target acceleration rate until the vehicle speed reaches the speed limit based on a high acceleration characteristic, and calculates a second target acceleration rate after the vehicle speed reaches the speed limit based on the basic acceleration characteristic.

A system and method of determining a vehicle´s maximum velocity are disclosed. The system includes a computing device configured to: receive a three-dimensional (3D) acceleration data; receive a type of a vehicle; receive in real-time a location or velocity of the vehicle on the road during travel; calculate road surface frequency using the 3D acceleration data and the real-time location and / or velocity of the vehicle receive an acceleration threshold for the travel; calculate a maximum recommended velocity for the travel based on the acceleration threshold, the type of the car, the road surface frequency, and the location; and send the calculated maximum recommended velocity to an external computing device wherein the road surface frequency is a mathematical expression of at least one of, the bumpiness and curvature properties of the road.

An adaptive speed control method for a motor vehicle includes the steps of: detecting (25) a vehicle preceding the motor vehicle; detecting (31) environmental characteristics affecting the braking distance of the motor vehicle; and determining (29) a safe distance between the motor vehicle and the preceding vehicle, including determining the braking distance associated with the environmental characteristics. An adaptive speed control system for a motor vehicle and a motor vehicle comprising the system are also described. Figure to be published with the abbreviation: Fig 2

To present a travel state change factor and the change in the travel state to a user at the time of decision of the change of the travel state of automated driving control using a machine learning model.SOLUTION: An automated driving system for deciding to change a travel state of an own vehicle using a machine learning model in an automated driving control for the own vehicle includes: an automated driving control unit configured to decide to change the travel state of the own vehicle using the machine learning model on the basis of a preset target route and position information of the own vehicle and map information, or a detection result of an external sensor of the own vehicle; and an information presentation unit configured to present a travel state change factor, which is a main cause of the change in the travel state, and the change in the travel state of the own vehicle to a user of the own vehicle when the automated driving control unit decides to change the travel state of the own vehicle.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

A means of transport, a device, and a method for informing a user of a driver assistance system of a means of transport are proposed. The method comprises the following steps: determining the current speed, the current driver input, and a variety of environmental conditions of the means of transport; using the current speed, the current driver input, and the environmental conditions to determine a current target distance that the driver assistance system attempts to maintain; determining a minimum distance and a maximum distance that would result under different environmental conditions at the current speed and the current driver input; and issuing an initial indication (3) to the user regarding the minimum distance, the maximum distance, and the target distance.

Aspects of the present invention relate to a speed control system (15) for a vehicle (10), to a method and to a vehicle (10). The system causes the vehicle (10) to drive at a target speed value. The speed control system (15) uses a pitch rate signal indicative of a rate of change of pitch of a vehicle (10) and a driving surface gradient signal indicative of a gradient of a driving surface upon which the vehicle (10) is being driven to determine if the vehicle is cresting. The determination that cresting is occurring depends on the rate of change of pitch exceeding a predetermined value; and the gradient value of the driving surface being below a predetermined value. The speed control system (15) outputs a speed reduction signal to reduce the speed of the vehicle when the vehicle is cresting.

The invention provides a vehicle-mounted display system and a control method of the vehicle-mounted display system. A vehicle-mounted display system, which is mounted on a host vehicle and displays a situation around the host vehicle on a display in a cabin, is provided with a display control unit that displays a preceding vehicle icon on a travel lane region of the display when a preceding vehicle traveling in front of the host vehicle is detected, and displays the preceding vehicle icon on the display when the preceding vehicle is not traveling in front of the host vehicle. The driving lane region has a near-front display region, a first display region located at a far-end side of the near-front display region, and a second display region located at a far-end side of the first display region, and when a more preceding vehicle traveling in front of the preceding vehicle is detected, the display control unit displays a more preceding vehicle icon in the second display region. The display control unit moves the preceding vehicle icon from the second display area to the first display area when the preceding vehicle is separated from the driving lane of the vehicle while the preceding vehicle is detected.

A method for controlling propulsion of a vehicle is provided. The method comprises: identifying at least one route characteristic of a portion of a most likely path; determining a vehicle energy consumption profile for the vehicle based at least on historical data indicative of energy consumption of the vehicle for at least a portion of a route previously traversed by the vehicle, the at least a portion of the route having at least one route characteristic corresponding to the at least one route characteristic of the portion of the most probable path; and determining a route energy consumption profile for the most probable path based on the at least one route characteristic of the portion of the most probable path and the vehicle energy consumption profile. The method further includes determining a target vehicle speed profile based on the at least one route characteristic and the vehicle energy consumption profile; and selectively controlling vehicle propulsion based on the target vehicle speed profile.

A method for controlling a distance adjustment system, which is a system for adjusting the distance between a target vehicle (10) and a following vehicle (20), and is installed in the following vehicle, is disclosed, the method including: executing a control law (cmd) for adjusting distance that calculates potential set distances for a plurality of possible combinations of travel speeds of the following vehicle and the target vehicle; and determining a final set distance from the potential set distances pre-calculated by the control law for a given combination of travel speeds of the following vehicle and the target vehicle from the plurality of possible combinations.

The present invention relates to a regulator system (200) and a method (500) for regulating one or more operating conditions (OC) of a vehicle (100). The regulator system (200) comprises at least one control unit (201, 202,203) to gather a plurality of navigation parameters (NP) comprising one or more predefined speed parameters (SP) with respect to a predefined route of travel of the navigation system and transmit the plurality of navigation parameters (NP) to at least one display unit (102) of the vehicle (100). Further, the at least one control unit (201,202, 203) regulates the one or more operating conditions (OC) of the vehicle (100) via one or more actuators (101) of the vehicle (100) based on a comparison of a real-time speed (SR) of the vehicle (100) with the one or more predefined speed parameters (SP).

Method for assisting a driver during lane changes with an ego vehicle (100) comprising the following procedural steps: - Detection of the state of the direction indicator of the ego vehicle (100) using a device (3) for detecting the state of a direction indicator of the ego vehicle (100), - Determining the driver's intention to change lanes, - when a lane change intention is detected, determine the position and speed of other vehicles relative to the ego vehicle (100) and calculate a speed target for the ego vehicle (100) during the lane change based on the determined positions and speeds of the other vehicles relative to the ego vehicle (100), and - Displaying the speed limit to the driver, characterized in that - Contextual information of the ego vehicle (100) regarding the type of road traveled by the ego vehicle (100), as well as any associated entry and exit areas and the relative positions and relative speeds of other vehicles, are recorded, and - the lane-changing intention is determined from the fusion of context information with information regarding the state of the turn signal, and - the fused information is checked for consistency, and in case of inconsistency between the context information and the information regarding the state of the direction indicator, the context information is preferred for determining the lane change intention by ignoring the information from device (3).

Steering column lever control assembly (40) for influencing the speed of a motor vehicle (70), with a steering column lever (56) which is operable forwards, backwards, upwards and / or downwards in relation to the forward direction of travel (72) of the motor vehicle (70) to provide at least one functional control unit (30, 32, 60, 62), characterized by an adjustment device (10) for adjusting at least three assistance function units (12, 14, 16, 18) influencing the speed of a motor vehicle (70), which are selected from a speed-keeping assistance function unit (12), a predictive distance control assistance function unit (14), a speed limiting assistance function unit (16) and a hill-climbing assistance function unit (18), wherein the adjusting device (10) has a single switching control unit (22) arranged on the steering column lever (56) in a lower area of ​​the steering column lever (56) with respect to a vehicle vertical axis (74) for adjusting one of the at least three assistance function units (12, 14, 16, 18) influencing the speed of the motor vehicle (70), wherein the adjusting device (10) has a control unit (20) which is configured to monitor the actuation of the individual switching control unit (22) and to select an assistance function unit (12, 14, 16, 18) by actuation of the individual switching control unit (22).

To create a method for controlling an at least partially autonomous ego-vehicle (100) with particularly positive driving behavior when a relevant road user (20) turns or changes lanes, it is proposed that the method comprises the following steps: d. Determining a current, shortest distance (22) between the ego-vehicle (100) and the relevant road user (20); e. Determining a safety factor that includes at least a collision probability; f. Determining an ideal speed of the ego-vehicle (100) at which a predetermined safety factor can be achieved; g. Determining a speed-based control value for accelerating and / or decelerating the ego-vehicle (100) based on the ideal speed determined in step f.; h.Determining a distance-based control value for accelerating and / or decelerating the Ego vehicle (100) based on a hazard factor stored by the memory unit (13); i. selecting between the speed-based control value and the distance-based control value; and j. controlling deceleration or acceleration of the Ego vehicle (100) based on the control value selected in step i.

To provide a vehicle driving assistance device capable of smoothly performing change of set vehicle speed in which a self vehicle is quickly accelerated to limited speed upon securing safety while esteeming the intention of a driver.SOLUTION: A vehicle driving assistance device 2 comprises: a stereo image recognition device 4; vehicle speed adjustment switches (15b, 15c) which adjust set vehicle speed Vs; and a traveling control unit 5 for increasing and decreasing the set vehicle speed Vs for each tap operation, calculating a target acceleration aset on the basis of a basic acceleration characteristic A, and adjusting self vehicle speed V to the set vehicle speed Vs. When the set vehicle speed Vs is adjusted to the speed which is equal to or more than a limited speed Vr through continuous tap operation, the traveling control unit 5 calculates first target acceleration (hset) until the self vehicle speed V reaches the limited speed Vr on the basis of a higher acceleration characteristic B which generates larger acceleration than the basic acceleration characteristic A, and calculates second target acceleration (aset) after reaching the limited speed Vr on the basis of the basic acceleration characteristic A.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

Aspects of the present invention relate to a speed control system (15) for a vehicle (10), to a method and to a vehicle (10). The system causes the vehicle (10) to drive at a target speed value. The speed control system (15) receives a turn indicator status signal indicative of a state of a turn signal indicator control of the vehicle. The system (15) determines a turn indicator target speed limit in dependence on the turn indicator status signal and controls the vehicle in accordance with the turn indicator target speed limit.

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for an adaptive cruise control that controls a speed of a host vehicle as a passing vehicle quickly passes through a trajectory of the host vehicle. In one form, a system includes at least one processor that is configured to determine that a passing vehicle is entering a trajectory in which the host vehicle is travelling based on a longitudinal speed, a longitudinal acceleration, a lateral speed, and a lateral acceleration of the passing vehicle; determine to maintain a follow distance of an adaptive cruise control system of the host vehicle to at least one target vehicle in the trajectory in which the host vehicle is traveling prior to the passing vehicle entering the trajectory; and to maintain the follow distance to the at least one target vehicle while the passing vehicle passes through the trajectory in which the host vehicle is traveling.

The driving support device includes: a vehicle speed controller configured to perform vehicle speed control, a system controller configured to perform at least one prerequisite control, and a storage device configured to store whether or not switching between enabling and disabling is permitted for each of the at least one prerequisite control, wherein the vehicle speed controller includes: determining whether each of the at least one prerequisite control is enabled or disabled in response to an operation of a driver of the vehicle for starting the vehicle speed control, determining, with reference to the storage device, whether or not enabling of the prerequisite control determined to be disabled is permitted, and in response to determining that enabling of the prerequisite control determined to be disabled is permitted, enabling the prerequisite control determined to be disabled and starting the vehicle speed control.

The invention relates to a method for operating an assistance system (51) in vehicles (50) of a vehicle fleet, wherein in each vehicle (50) of the vehicle fleet: at least one configuration parameter (30) of the assistance system (51) is estimated based on context descriptors (10) using a trained local machine learning model (20L), wherein submodels (22) of the machine learning model (20L, 20G) are assigned to a data domain defined based on the context descriptors (10), wherein the local machine learning model (20L) is trained based on training data (15) collected in the vehicle (50), wherein only parameters (21L) of the assigned submodels (22) and / or associated connections are modified, and wherein the parameters (21L) of these submodels (22) and / or the associated connections are transmitted to a backend server (60) after training.and wherein in the backend server (60): a global machine learning model (20G) is trained based on the parameters (21L) transmitted by the vehicles (50), wherein parameters (21G) of the trained global machine learning model (20G) are transmitted to the vehicles (50) of the vehicle fleet, and wherein the respective local machine learning models (20L) are updated based on the transmitted parameters (21G). Furthermore, the invention relates to a system (1).

A work vehicle includes an output pedal that controls the output of a motive section, a biasing member that biases the output pedal to return, and a brake pedal that operates a travel brake to a braking state. Also included are a holding section operable to a holding state of holding the output pedal at any depressed position and to a release state of releasing the holding of the output pedal, and a manual operating tool for manually operating the holding section to the holding state. Further included are a brake linkage section that operates the holding section to the release state when the brake pedal is depressed in the holding state, and an output linkage section that operates the holding section to the release state when the output pedal is depressed in the holding state.

An automated driving system for deciding to change a travel state of a host vehicle using a machine learning model in an automated driving control process for the host vehicle includes an automated driving control unit configured to decide to change the travel state of the host vehicle using the machine learning model on the basis of a preset target route and position information of the host vehicle and map information, or a detection result of an external sensor of the host vehicle, and an information presentation unit configured to present a travel state change factor, which is a main cause of the change in the travel state, and the change in the travel state of the host vehicle to a user of the host vehicle when the automated driving control unit decides to change the travel state of the host vehicle.

A decrease in braking force, which is not intended by a rider, is suppressed. An execution section of a control device executes automatic speed control to automatically control a speed of a straddle-type vehicle. In a state where a braking force acting on a rear wheel does not depend on a brake operation using a first brake operating portion and a braking force acting on a front wheel does not depend on a brake operation using a second brake operating portion, in a situation where a braking force is automatically generated on at least one of the front wheel and the rear wheel by the automatic speed control, when the automatic speed control is canceled in response to an automatic speed control cancellation operation that is a brake operation using the brake operating portion for the other of the front wheel and the rear wheel without using the brake operating portion for the one wheel, the execution section executes a first control operation that automatically generates a braking force on the one wheel in a state where a braking force dependent on the brake operation using the brake operating portion for the other wheel acts on the other wheel.

A control arrangement (100) and a method for controlling a drive train (2) of a medium-weight or heavy-duty vehicle (1). The method comprises a step of adapting (S109) a currently predicted route (R1) for the vehicle (1) to a new predicted route (R2) in response to one or more driver-initiated indicators, wherein the new predicted route (R2) is predicted taking into account information relating to the one or more driver-initiated indicators. The method further comprises a step of determining (S110) a driving strategy for an upcoming road section of the new predicted route based on properties of the upcoming road section. Furthermore, the method comprises a step of controlling (S111) the drive train (2) according to the determined driving strategy.

The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method for operating an autonomous vehicle (100, 102, 104) based on sensor data representative of an area in a driving direction of and in the vicinity of the vehicle (100, 102, 104). The vehicle (100, 102, 104) is equipped with a control unit (202) adapted to determine if a plurality of detailed actions to be performed by the vehicle (100, 102, 104) successfully may be used for fulfilling a desired general action plan for the vehicle (100, 102, 104). The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding control system and to a computer program product.

The present disclosure relates to a method of activating cruise control for a vehicle in motion. The vehicle speed is continuously acquired. A maximum allowable speed on the path currently travelled by the vehicle is determined. A value V1 for a limit speed is selected based on and below the determined maximum allowable speed. A time range of T units of time is selected based on the maximum allowable speed. The average speed is continuously calculated based on the continuously acquired speed measurements for the most recent T units of time. Upon determination that the speed of the vehicle exceeds the value V1 and that during the most recent T units of time the speed has deviated less than or equal to a predefined allowable deviation from the last calculated average speed, the cruise control is automatically activated to operate the vehicle at said last calculated average speed.

The present disclosure generally relates to managing a cruise control setting. A cruise control indicator is displayed at a location corresponding to a cruise control speed concurrently with a textual indication of the cruise control speed. In response to receiving an input, the textual indication ceases to be displayed after a non-zero duration while the cruise control indicator continues to be displayed.

Improved control of cruise control for a vehicle, in particular an automated activation of cruise control. For this purpose, the distance between the vehicle and a further vehicle in front of the vehicle is monitored. If the distance between the vehicle and a further vehicle in front of the vehicle is within a predetermined range for a specific period of time it is indicated to a user that cruise control can be activated. Accordingly, cruise control can be automatically activated after providing the indication to the user, or a user may respond to this indication by providing a specific activity such as a release of the acceleration pedal.