Methods and systems are disclosed for vehicle cruise control smoothness adaptation. An example vehicle includes a GPS receiver for receiving expected road incline data, a camera for determining a half lane width position, and a radar for determining two respective leading vehicle angles of arrival. The vehicle also includes a processor for determining an actual road incline by filtering the expected road incline, half lane width position, and leading vehicle angles of arrival. And the processor is further for modifying a cruise control system based on the actual road incline.

A method of controlling a vehicle includes determining location, speed, and direction of travel of the vehicle. At least one vehicle condition is sensed. A desired trajectory for the vehicle is determined in response to the sensed vehicle condition. A center point of an artificial stiffness applied to a steering wheel of the vehicle is varied so that the desired trajectory becomes the center point of the artificial stiffness. The artificial stiffness applied to the steering wheel is increased in response to an initiated steering maneuver. An apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes a steering system for turning steerable vehicle wheels of the vehicle in response to rotation of a steering wheel of the vehicle. A first sensor senses a location, speed, and direction of travel of the vehicle. A second sensor senses at least one vehicle condition. A controller that receives signals from the first and second sensors determines a desired trajectory for the vehicle in response to first and second signals received from the first and second sensors and varies a center point of an artificial stiffness applied to the steering wheel of the vehicle so that the desired trajectory becomes the center point of the artificial stiffness and increases the artificial stiffness applied to the steering wheel in response to an initiated steering maneuver.

A vehicle control device includes: an acquisitor configured to acquire a situation outside a vehicle; a driving operator configured to execute an operation for manual driving by an occupant of the vehicle; a detector configured to detect a state of the occupant of the vehicle; a manual driving controller configured to execute the manual driving to cause the vehicle to travel based on an operation received by the driving operator; a communicator configured to communicate with a facility outside the vehicle and transmit the situation outside the vehicle acquired by the acquisitor to the facility outside the vehicle; a remotely controlled driving controller configured to execute remotely controlled driving to cause the vehicle to travel based on control information received from the facility outside the vehicle; and a switching controller configured to switch from the remotely controlled driving to the manual driving when the remotely controlled driving is executed by the remotely controlled driving controller and a state of the occupant of the vehicle detected by the detector satisfies a predetermined condition.

A system includes a power source to generate power to propel the vehicle, and a speed sensor to detect a current speed. The system also includes a camera to detect image data corresponding to a current roadway, and a GPS sensor to detect location data corresponding to a current location of the vehicle. The system also includes an ECU. The ECU is designed to determine a target vehicle speed based on at least one of the image data or the location data. The ECU is also designed to calculate an energy-efficient acceleration pattern to accelerate the vehicle from the current speed to the target vehicle speed based on a goal to minimize energy usage of the power source. The ECU is also designed to control the power source to accelerate the vehicle from the current speed to the target vehicle speed using the energy-efficient acceleration pattern.

A smart governor system that intercepts and adjusts throttle commands when certain criteria are met based on vehicle operations and a user-selected transmission mode. The governor, when engaged, reduces a throttle command in order limit engine and/or ground speed.

The present disclosure relates to an operating handle for a bearing surface transporter for accommodating an object to be transported, for example, the bearing surface of a surgical table, comprising at least two motorized drive rollers, wherein the operating handle comprises a handle piece that can be rotated around its longitudinal axis, an angle of rotation sensor for detecting an angle of rotation and a direction of rotation of the handle piece and for providing a sensor signal to a control unit of the at least two drive rollers, and a force sensor for detecting a force exerted onto the handle piece in the direction of its longitudinal axis and for providing a sensor signal to the control unit of the at least two drive rollers.

The present disclosure relates to an operating handle for a bearing surface transporter for accommodating an object to be transported, for example, the bearing surface of a surgical table, comprising at least two motorized drive rollers, wherein the operating handle comprises a handle piece that can be rotated around its longitudinal axis, an angle of rotation sensor for detecting an angle of rotation and a direction of rotation of the handle piece and for providing a sensor signal to a control unit of the at least two drive rollers, and a force sensor for detecting a force exerted onto the handle piece in the direction of its longitudinal axis and for providing a sensor signal to the control unit of the at least two drive rollers.

An improved cruise control system is configured to be retrofit with an electrical mobility scooter. The cruise control system has module that is a self-contained unit, comprising an assembly of electronic components and associated wiring, including a processor and memory with software for processing by the processor, which performs defined tasks, and which is linked with the scooter controller, power supply and scooter throttle control.

Provided are a cruise control system and method for an autonomous apparatus having a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) device. The cruise control system is implemented by at least one hardware processor and includes an input unit configured to receive scanning information from the LIDAR device, the scanning information related to peripheral environment of the autonomous apparatus; and a main controller configured to determine a scannable region of the peripheral environment and an unscannable region of the peripheral environment based on the scanning information, and to generate obstacle information by detecting a first sunken region in the scannable region and a second sunken region in the unscannable region.

A system and method in a building or vehicle for an actuator operation in response to a sensor according to a control logic, the system comprising a router or a gateway communicating with a device associated with the sensor and a device associated with the actuator over in-building or in-vehicle networks, and an external Internet-connected control server associated with the control logic implementing a PID closed linear control loop and communicating with the router over external network for controlling the in-building or in-vehicle phenomenon. The sensor may be a microphone or a camera, and the system may include voice or image processing as part of the control logic. A redundancy is used by using multiple sensors or actuators, or by using multiple data paths over the building or vehicle internal or external communication. The networks may be wired or wireless, and may be BAN, PAN, LAN, WAN, or home networks.