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A hybrid electromechanical transmission includes first, second and third planetary gear sets, an input member, an output member, and first and second motor generators. At least one of the gear members in the first planetary gear set is connected to the first motor/generator. At least one of the gear members in the third planetary gear set is connected to the second motor/generator. First and second interconnecting members continuously connect members of the first planetary gear set with members of the second planetary gear set. Five torque-transmitting mechanisms selectively interconnect members of the planetary gear sets with a stationary member or with other members of the planetary gear sets. One of the five torque-transmitting mechanisms is operative to selectively disconnect the second planetary gear set from the third planetary gear set so that the second motor/generator may drive the output member while disconnected from the first motor/generator and the input member.

A control unit sets a front-end collision risk of a subject vehicle against a front vehicle in accordance with a time headway of the subject vehicle and a margin time to front-end collision of the subject vehicle, and a rear-end collision risk of the subject vehicle by a rear vehicle in accordance with a time headway of the rear vehicle and a margin time to rear-end collision of the subject vehicle, the margin time to rear-end collision having a larger weight than that of the margin time to front-end collision in the front-end collision risk against the front vehicle. Brake control and alarm control are performed in accordance with the front-end collision risk against the front vehicle and the rear-end collision risk by the rear vehicle.

The invention discloses a navigation method and device. The method comprises the steps that according to a starting place and a destination, a guiding path from the starting place and the destination is planned; a current to-be-guided intersection in the guiding path, a pull-in road into the current to-be-guided intersection in the guiding path and a pull-out road out of the current to-be-guided intersection in the guiding path are determined; according to road attributes of the pull-in road of the current to-be-guided intersection and road attributes of the pull-out road, expansion navigation prompting information of the current to-be-guided intersection is generated, wherein the expansion navigation prompting information at least includes one of heading prompting information, lane changing prompting information and following steering prompting information; the expansion navigation prompting information is added into navigation prompting information to be output to a user. The expansion navigation prompting information such as the heading prompting information, the lane changing prompting information and the following steering prompting information can be provided for a user, so that driving of the user is better assisted, and the user experience is improved.

A bicycle arm-drive apparatus includes a stationary mounting structure, an arm drive input mechanism, a drive motion transmission mechanism, and a plurality of connectors. One end of the mounting structure attaches to the front-center portion of the bicycle. The arm drive input mechanism includes a pair of control arms that pivotally attach to the other end of the mounting structure and generally extend rearward and outward from there. The operator grips each control arm, inputting arm power by driving them fore-and-aft. The drive motion transmission mechanism includes a pair of connecting rod assemblies running down opposite sides of the bicycle frame between the control arms and bicycle pedals. A plurality of connectors link the connecting rod assemblies to the pedals and control arms in order to transmit control arm fore-and-aft movement via the connecting rod assemblies to the pedals to enable the arm power to assist with bicycle pedaling.

A driver assistance system that can reduce time delays in acquiring the traveling state of a vehicle and can stably control the vehicle. In the driver assistance system, a vehicle-mounted camera acquires an image including the boundary of a driving lane on which a vehicle travels. A target path generator generates a target path that is a path, on which the vehicle has to travel on the driving lane, based on the image. A traveling state acquirer acquires the traveling state of the vehicle on the driving lane based on the image. A controller performs steering control for causing the vehicle to travel along the target path based on the target path and the traveling state. A compensator compensates a time delay when the traveling state acquirer acquires the traveling state.

An interface for a pressurized fluidized bed combustion facility is disclosed that enables future addition of carbon dioxide capture technology to capture facility flue gas emissions. The interface includes a gas to water pressurized heat recovery steam generator to cool facility flue gas and provide steam to the facility steam turbine generator. A VFD motor and flue gas expander are coupled to a combustion air compressor to energize the facility. The expander is synchronized over a SSS-clutch to drive the compressor. The interface in combination with carbon capture technology and methods for conditioning flue gas are also disclosed.

The invention provides a method and a device used for marking an object. The method comprises steps that a panorama image is acquired by an unmanned plane, and the panorama image is sent to auxiliary driving equipment; the panorama image is received by the auxiliary driving equipment, visual scene analysis on the panorama image is carried out, and a scene and the object of the panorama image are acquired; target identification of the object under the scene corresponding to the panorama image is carried out through the auxiliary driving equipment; when a target object exists, an image frame including the target object is displayed by the auxiliary driving equipment; and the object in the image frame is marked. Through the method, the panorama image can be acquired in real time, all visual fields around the unmanned plane are guaranteed to monitor, the target object of the scene of the unmanned plane is further marked, reference is provided for auxiliary driving of the unmanned plane, and an operator is made to easily avoid the target object.

A moving assist apparatus assists a vehicle which includes an internal combustion engine and an electric motor as a driving source to move from a current position to a destination. The moving assist apparatus includes a planning unit configured to, for each section obtained by dividing a traveling route from the current position to the destination, plan one traveling mode from a mode of not maintaining a charge storage amount of a battery and a HV mode of maintaining the charge storage amount of the battery, based on a traveling load associated with the section. The planning unit is configured to replan the traveling mode under a predetermined condition, and when the predetermined condition is satisfied, when a remaining distance of the section on which the vehicle is traveling is less than a threshold a, to replan a current ‘traveling mode to be the traveling mode in priority.

The invention provides a lighting device for a vehicle and a vehicle with the same. The lighting device, for a vehicle, that includes at least one light source configured to generate light; a transparent display configured to allow at least a portion of the light to pass through the transparent display; and a processor configured to control the transparent display to display, on a projection surface using the transmitting light.

The invention discloses a vehicle driving safety pre-warning method and system based on environmental monitoring. The method comprises the steps of obtaining the driving information of a vehicle in real time, further judging whether the vehicle is in an advancing state or a reversing state, if the vehicle is in the advancing state, directly executing an advancing pre-warning step, and if the vehicle is in the reversing state, directly executing a reversing pre-warning step; in the advancing pre-warning step, adopting a binocular camera mounted on the vehicle to collect real-time images around the vehicle, judging whether an obstacle exists, if the obstacle exists and the distance between the obstacle and the vehicle is within a safe distance, broadcasting the area of the obstacle and the distance between the obstacle and the vehicle; in the reversing pre-warning step, adopting the binocular camera mounted on the vehicle to collect real-time images on the two sides and the tail of the vehicle, judging whether the vehicle is reversed and enters a garbage, if so, broadcasting the distance between a berth line and the vehicle. The driving environment around the vehicle can be detected comprehensively, safety pre-warning can be realized in time, and the method can be widely applied to the safe driving field of the vehicle.

The technology relates to assisting large self-driving vehicles, such as cargo vehicles, as they maneuver towards and/or park at a destination facility. This may include a given vehicle transitioning between different autonomous driving modes. Such a vehicles may be permitted to drive in a fully autonomous mode on certain roadways for the majority of a trip, but may need to change to a partially autonomous mode on other roadways or when entering or leaving a destination facility such as a warehouse, depot or service center. Large vehicles such as cargo truck may have limited room to maneuver in and park at the destination, which may also prevent operation in a fully autonomous mode. Here, information from the destination facility and/or a remote assistance service can be employed to aid in real-time semi-autonomous maneuvering.

A moving assist apparatus assists vehicle which includes an internal combustion engine and an electric motor as driving source to move from current position to destination. The moving assist apparatus includes: a mode planning unit of for each section obtained by dividing traveling route from the current position to the destination, planning regularly one traveling mode from EV mode of not maintaining charge storage amount of battery and HV mode of maintaining the charge storage amount of battery; and an information generation unit of generating periodically traveling load information referenced by the mode planning unit. In addition to plans regularly, when replanning the traveling mode based on the traveling load information generated by the information generation unit, the mode planning unit defers execution of the replanning of traveling mode period to which from execution of the previous planning does not reach predetermined period.

Toilet bowl treating/cleaning assemblies are provided. In one form the toilet seat lid has mounted on it a dispenser in a fashion so that pivoting of the lid assists in controlling dispensing of a solid pill containing a treating chemical. Also, structures are provided to avoid dispensing when a consumer determines that bowl treatment is not needed, and to facilitate dispensing in response to manual activation.

The invention relates to a navigation method and device, computer equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the steps of if a target vehicle enters a geographic range corresponding to a high-precision map of a target service area, displaying the high-precision map in a map navigation page at a bird's-eye view angle, and displaying a parking lot parking space interface on the high-precision map in an overlapping manner, wherein the measurement precision of the high-precision map is greater than a preset precision threshold value, and occupation information of each parking space in the parking lot in the target service area is displayed in the parking lot parking space interface; the occupation information is used for indicating whether a vehicle is parked in a parking space or not; and the occupation information is acquired based on sensing information of a roadside base station arranged in the target service area, and the roadside base station is initialized based on the high-precision map. The user can be better assisted in driving by adopting the method.

A method and device for assisting in driving a vehicle in motion along an initial trajectory, in an environment containing at least one obstacle, assistance is carried out by checking, by a trajectory checking unit, during movement of the vehicle, the existence of at least one condition for modifying the initial trajectory to avoid the obstacle. A criteria determining unit is used to determine a criterion CR by which to avoid the obstacle, and an avoidance trajectory determining unit is used to determine an avoidance trajectory according to a derivative of the criterion CR. The vehicle is assisted along the determined avoidance trajectory by a driving assist device.

An apparatus for assisting driving of a host vehicle includes a camera mounted to the host vehicle and having a field of view outside of the host vehicle, the camera configured to obtain image data; and a controller configured to process the image data, identify at least one object obstructing the host vehicle's driving based on the image data, predict a collision with the at least one object, identify whether the host vehicle is moving forward or backward based on the image data and control a braking device of the host vehicle to brake the host vehicle depending on whether the host vehicle is moving forward or backward.

A fuel cell system includes a motor driving a compressor that supplies air to a fuel cell, a turbine assisting the compressor, a bypass valve that opens and closes the bypass flow path, and a controller. When a required air flow rate is equal to or higher than a threshold value, the controller closes the bypass valve and controls the motor to cause the air to flow through the fuel cell at a flow rate corresponding to the required air flow rate. When the required air flow rate is lower than the threshold value, the controller opens the bypass valve to cause the air to flow through the bypass flow path and controls the motor to cause the air to flow through the fuel cell at the flow rate corresponding to the required air flow rate.

A system and method for creating and accurately updating school bus routes based on commuter assignments in real-time are disclosed. The system comprises a server including a processor and a memory that stores a set of instructions executable by the processor. A computing device is positioned inside a vehicle, for example, a school bus to identify the commuters, for example, school students boarding the vehicle by reading a unique code printed on their ID cards using a built-in camera, stop locations of the vehicle, and pickup and drop off times. The server could receive information related to the commuters, stop locations, and pickup and drop off times from the computing device via a network and identify the sequence of stop locations, thereby generating a route based on the commuter assignment. The server could update the routes based on the updated information and commuter assignments after the initial route is generated.

The invention belongs to the technical field of video monitoring, and particularly relates to a beyond-visual-range train safety protection system and method based on a 5G network, and the system comprises vehicle-mounted layer equipment and ground layer equipment; wherein the vehicle-mounted layer equipment comprises a DMS vehicle-mounted host computer for expanding a 5G communication carrier plate, a video information display unit and a 5G antenna, the video information display unit is connected with the DMS vehicle-mounted host computer through a laid cable, and the 5G antenna is in communication connection with the 5G communication carrier plate of the DMS vehicle-mounted host computer through an antenna feeder; the ground layer equipment comprises high-speed rail line video image acquisition equipment, a ground server and a 5G base station, the high-speed rail line video image acquisition equipment is connected with the ground server through an optical fiber, and the ground server is connected with the 5G base station along the line through an optical fiber. According to the invention, the real-time image of the line at a certain distance in front of the running train and the abnormal early warning information are sent to the cab console of the motor train unit for presentation through the 5G network, so that the visual field range of a driver is extended, and auxiliary previewing information is provided for driving of the driver.

The invention discloses a navigation system and method of a vehicle and the vehicle. The navigation system comprises a plurality of sensors, a plurality of cameras and a display screen; the sensors are arranged around the circumference of the vehicle at intervals, the cameras are disposed on the front portion, middle portion and rear portion of the vehicle respectively, the sensors and the camerasare both electrically connected to the display screen, and the display screen is used for displaying reminding information that the vehicle deviates from a lane. Thus, by arranging the sensors and the cameras on the vehicle, the environment around the vehicle is detected in real time, detected information is fed back to the display screen and a driver more visually, the driver can drive the vehicle according to the information displayed on the display screen, and thus a good auxiliary effect is achieved on the driver during driving.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a vehicle-mounted DVR video display method, a device, a device and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring the current stateinformation of the vehicle; determining at least one target video source according to the state information; displaying the video of the at least one target video source in a preset mode. According tothe method for displaying vehicle-mounted DVR video provided by an embodiment of that present invention,the video source to be displayed on the display device is determined according to the current state of the vehicle, so that the user can know the road condition around the vehicle corresponding to the vehicle state through the currently displayed picture, thereby playing a role of assisting driving, and thereby improving the reliability of the vehicle-mounted DVR video display.

The invention discloses a driving assistance method and a driving assistance device. The driving assistance method comprises the following steps: acquiring external environment information of a vehicle, wherein the external environment information comprises at least one of traffic environment information and natural environment information; acquiring vehicle internal information, wherein the vehicle internal information comprises at least one of vehicle internal environment information, driver state information and vehicle operation information; when the external environment information and the vehicle internal information meet a specific matching relationship, determining that a preset scene is met; and sending corresponding prompt information according to the preset scene. According to the driving assistance method and device, the internal environment and the external environment of the vehicle can be monitored at the same time, a driver is reminded according to the interaction effect of the external environment information and the internal information of the vehicle, and auxiliary driving is achieved.