Vehicle Control Apparatus and Method Thereof

    公开(公告)号:US20250065869A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-27

    申请号:US18532506

    申请日:2023-12-07

    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle control apparatus which includes memory and a controller. The vehicle control apparatus may obtain road information about a road on a driving route based on a determination that a driving route of a vehicle includes a tollgate, determine a target speed based on the road information, and control the vehicle to travel at a target rate of acceleration. The target rate of acceleration may be determined based on the target speed, a current driving speed of the vehicle, and/or a distance from the vehicle to the tollgate.

    Vehicle travel assistance system
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    公开(公告)号:US12233869B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-25

    申请号:US17849151

    申请日:2022-06-24

    Abstract: A vehicle travel assistance system includes a travel assistance control unit, an operation unit, and a travel assistance setting unit. The travel assistance control unit is configured to perform travel assistance in a braking-and-driving-force distribution control mode and an automatic cruise control mode. The travel assistance setting unit supplies, to the travel assistance control unit, setting information of travel assistance in response to the received operation under a condition that the operation received by the operation unit is for selecting the braking-and-driving-force distribution control mode, the travel assistance setting unit automatically supplies setting information of the braking-and-driving-force distribution control mode to the travel assistance control unit regardless of the operation in a case where a speed of the vehicle becomes an automatic deactivation speed or higher and thereafter becomes an automatic reactivation speed or lower.

    Electrified vehicle one pedal drive transition control

    公开(公告)号:US12233720B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-25

    申请号:US18335676

    申请日:2023-06-15

    Abstract: An electrified vehicle may include an electric motor coupled to a battery to propel and brake the vehicle, a pedal generating a pedal position signal including a released position signal, friction brakes configured to provide a stopping force to vehicle wheels, and a controller programmed to control the motor and the brakes in response to the pedal being released to decelerate the vehicle to a stop, and to control the motor and an engine (in hybrid vehicles) to inhibit propulsive torque to the wheels after stopping due to the pedal released position until receiving driver input indicative of a request for moving the vehicle, such as depressing the brake or accelerator pedal, or activating an automated vehicle maneuver, such as a parking maneuver, cruise control, or stop-and-go control. Inhibiting torque may include inhibiting creep torque and/or operating the electric machine to charge the battery when the engine is running.

    Simulating braking when speeding on cruise control to facilitate use of ISA system

    公开(公告)号:US12227181B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-18

    申请号:US16947456

    申请日:2020-08-03

    Abstract: A controller causes a signal to be received by a main control module (MCM) in a controller area network of a vehicle when the vehicle is determined to be speeding or when a set speed of a cruise control would result in speeding. The signal indicates to the MCM that a driver of the vehicle is braking. The signal is caused to be received by the MCM when the vehicle is determined to be speeding regardless of whether the driver of the vehicle is actually braking, whereby cruise control that is engaged is disengaged by the MCM. Such controller is utilized in conjunction with ADA systems, especially ISA systems, for enabling such systems to properly function without specific regard to the particular manufacturer and model of the cruise control module that may be used in a given vehicle.

    CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF RIDER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20250050882A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-13

    申请号:US18710667

    申请日:2022-11-30

    Inventor: Lars Pfau

    Abstract: The invention is to obtain a control device and a control method capable of assisting group driving of a motorcycle.
    A control device of a rider assistance system includes a vehicle speed control execution section executing a vehicle speed control operation of an own-vehicle (100), on the basis of positional relationship information between the own-vehicle (100) and at least one preceding vehicle (300) that is acquired while the own-vehicle (100) is driving, and an alignment operation execution section executing an alignment operation of aligning at least a part of an array that is formed by at least three motorcycles (200), in the vehicle speed control operation in a state in which a group driving mode that is a mode in which the at least three motorcycles (200) including the own-vehicle (100) perform group driving is valid.

    PARKING LOT DETERMINATION DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE, AND PARKING LOT DETERMINATION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20250046100A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-06

    申请号:US18763266

    申请日:2024-07-03

    Abstract: To effectively determine that a vehicle is traveling a parking lot, provided is a parking lot determination device for recognizing, based on image data acquired by capturing a periphery of a vehicle, a parking space and/or a parked vehicle in the periphery of the vehicle, and determining that the vehicle is traveling in a parking lot when a determination condition that a predetermined number or more of adjacent parking spaces and/or adjacent parked vehicles are recognized is satisfied, wherein the predetermined number to be used for the determination condition is reduced when a predetermined specific parking space is included in at least one or more parking spaces recognized based on the image data compared with the predetermined number to be used when the specific parking space is not included.

    Vehicle controller and vehicle control method

    公开(公告)号:US12208796B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-28

    申请号:US17942645

    申请日:2022-09-12

    Abstract: A vehicle controller sets an upper limit request value related to an upper limit of a longitudinal acceleration of a vehicle, a lower limit request value related to a lower limit of the longitudinal acceleration, and an acceleration request value related to the longitudinal acceleration that corresponds to an amount of the operation of the vehicle. The vehicle controller sets a first arbitration request value to a greater one of the lower limit request value and the acceleration request value. The vehicle controller sets a second arbitration request value to a smaller one of the first arbitration request value and the upper limit request value. The vehicle controller sets, to a value that corresponds to the second arbitration request value, a command value sent to an actuator that operates to adjust the traveling speed.

    Automated virtual launch torque generation

    公开(公告)号:US12208795B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-28

    申请号:US17357677

    申请日:2021-06-24

    Applicant: PACCAR Inc

    Abstract: Automated launch torque is provided. An automated virtual launch torque generation (AVL-TG) system may be included in a vehicle, such as a heavy duty truck, that may interoperate with an adaptive cruise control (CC) system to move the vehicle from a standstill or low speed to a CC handover speed. The AVL-TG system may determine a tip-in torque curve configured to mimic a torque curve generated by a human operator's acceleration pedal tip-in from a standstill or low speed. The tip-in torque curve may be represented by torque demand values corresponding to a dynamic pedal saturation level applied over a dynamic pedal rate. The torque demand values determined by the AVL-TG system may mimic an expected or human vehicle operator generated torque request, and may operate to successfully close the clutch and smoothly launch the vehicle from a standstill or low speed.

    Autonomous vehicle handling in unusual driving events

    公开(公告)号:US12202520B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-21

    申请号:US18316895

    申请日:2023-05-12

    Applicant: TUSIMPLE, INC.

    Abstract: A method of operating an autonomous vehicle includes detecting, based on an input received from a sensor of an autonomous vehicle that is being navigated by an on-board computer system, an occurrence of a driving event, making a determination by the on-board computer system, upon the detecting the occurrence of the driving event, whether or how to alter the path planned by the on-board computer system according to a set of rules, and performing further navigation of the autonomous vehicle based on the determination until the driving event is resolved. The driving event may include a presence of an object in a shoulder area of the road. The driving event may include accumulation of more than a certain number of vehicles behind the autonomous vehicle. The driving event may include a slow vehicle ahead of the autonomous vehicle. The driving event may include a do-not-change-lane zone is within a threshold.

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