Abstract:
An automotive autonomous driving system (1) configured to cause a motor vehicle (2) to perform recurrent low speed manoeuvres in autonomous driving in digital road maps-free. The automotive autonomous driving system (1) is configured to store recurrent low speed manoeuvres in the form of manoeuvre data descriptive of the environments in which the recurrent low speed manoeuvres are to be repeated in autonomous driving and comprising geolocation data representative of starting and end points of the recurrent low speed manoeuvres and of spatial constraints, obstacles, and associated dimensions, identified in the environments where the recurrent low speed manoeuvres are to be repeated in autonomous driving, when they were stored. The automotive autonomous driving system (1) is designed to cause the motor-vehicle (2) to repeat stored recurrent low speed manoeuvres by causing the motor-vehicle (2) to drive along an autonomous driving path computed, along with associated longitudinal and lateral dynamics, based on both stored data descriptive of the environments in which the recurrent low speed manoeuvres are to be performed in autonomous driving and on data received from an automotive sensory system, whereby the autonomous driving path and the associated longitudinal and lateral dynamics are computed by taking account of both the spatial constraints, obstacles and their dimensions identified in the environment where the recurrent low speed manoeuvre is to be repeated in autonomous driving identified when it was stored, and of any new spatial constraints and/or obstacles appeared in the environment in which the recurrent low speed manoeuvre is to be performed after it was stored and which can be identified based on the data received from the automotive sensory system. The automotive autonomous driving system (1) is further designed to optimize repetition in autonomous driving of stored recurrent low speed manoeuvres based on a collaborative navigation optimization approach implemented by the automotive autonomous driving system (1) and a remote service centre (10).
Abstract:
System (1) for automatically recognising anomalous situations along roads travelled by motor-vehicles for intelligent motor-vehicle driving speed control (2) along roads. The motor-vehicles (2) are configured to transmit data allowing anomalous situations to be recognised along roads travelled by the motor-vehicles (2). The system (1) comprises data processing resources (3) configured to: - receive and process data transmitted by the motor-vehicles (2) to recognise anomalous situations along the roads travelled by the motor-vehicles (2) based on a recognition algorithm, - when anomalous situations are recognised along roads travelled by the motor- vehicles (2), generate associated alert events and compute reference driving speeds along the roads recognised to be affected by anomalous situations, and - transmit data representative of the alert events and of the reference driving speeds along the roads recognised to be affected by anomalous situations. The motor-vehicles (2) are further configured to: - receive data representative of alert events and reference driving speeds, and - use the received data to implement one or both of the following actions: ° inform the drivers of motor-vehicles (2), through automotive user interfaces of motor-vehicles (2) of the anomalous situations recognised along roads travelled by motor-vehicles (2), and ° cause current driving speeds of the motor-vehicles (2) to be adjusted to the reference driving speeds along roads recognised to be affected by anomalous situations.
Abstract:
System (1) for automatically recognising anomalous situations along roads travelled by motor-vehicles for intelligent motor-vehicle driving speed control (2) along roads. The motor-vehicles (2) are configured to transmit data allowing anomalous situations to be recognised along roads travelled by the motor-vehicles (2). The system (1) comprises data processing resources (3) configured to: - receive and process data transmitted by the motor-vehicles (2) to recognise anomalous situations along the roads travelled by the motor-vehicles (2) based on a recognition algorithm, - when anomalous situations are recognised along roads travelled by the motor- vehicles (2), generate associated alert events and compute reference driving speeds along the roads recognised to be affected by anomalous situations, and - transmit data representative of the alert events and of the reference driving speeds along the roads recognised to be affected by anomalous situations. The motor-vehicles (2) are further configured to: - receive data representative of alert events and reference driving speeds, and - use the received data to implement one or both of the following actions: ° inform the drivers of motor-vehicles (2), through automotive user interfaces of motor-vehicles (2) of the anomalous situations recognised along roads travelled by motor-vehicles (2), and ° cause current driving speeds of the motor-vehicles (2) to be adjusted to the reference driving speeds along roads recognised to be affected by anomalous situations.
Abstract:
An automotive accelerator device comprising an accelerator member movable in response to driver operation, a position sensor associated with the accelerator member to output a position signal indicating an operation degree of the accelerator member, and signal processing means configured to receive the position signal generated by the position sensor and to generate a command for a motor vehicle engine based on the position signal and a characteristic curve of the accelerator device that defines the command for the motor vehicle engine as a function of the position signal; the signal processing means are further configured to: receive signals indicating a current motor vehicle speed and a target motor vehicle speed, and to dynamically adapt the accelerator device characteristic curve based on the current motor vehicle speed with respect to the target motor vehicle speed; wherein dynamically adapting the accelerator device characteristic curve comprises determining lower, intermediate and upper motor vehicle speed ranges based on the target motor vehicle speed and dynamically adapting the accelerator device characteristic curve based on the current motor vehicle speed and the lower, intermediate and upper motor vehicle speed ranges such that for current motor vehicle speeds within the lower motor vehicle speed range, the command is directly proportional to the position signal, via a first proportionality coefficient, for current motor vehicle speeds within the upper motor vehicle speed range, the command is substantially invariant as the position signal varies, and for current motor vehicle speeds within the intermediate motor vehicle speed range, the command is directly proportional to the position signal, via a second proportionality coefficient lower than the first proportionality coefficient.