A vehicle includes: a brake mechanism configured to brake a wheel in accordance with a pressure of a brake fluid; a hydraulic circuit configured to adjust the pressure of the brake fluid and transfer the brake fluid to the brake mechanism; and a controller. The controller includes one or more processors to execute: a torque adjustment process of giving an offset to increase a required driving torque determined based on an operation amount of accelerator of the vehicle in a case where it is determined that the vehicle is in a stolen state; and a brake fluid pressure adjustment process of applying control to the hydraulic circuit to pressurize the brake fluid so as to compensate for an increase in the required driving torque due to the offset.

The present disclosure relates to a resource allocation procedure for allocating time-frequency radio resources by a scheduler in a mobile communication system. A plurality of numerology schemes are defined, each partitioning a plurality of radio resources of the mobile communication system into resource scheduling units in a different manner. A reference resource set is defined per numerology scheme, each being associated to a set of radio resources usable for being allocated according to the respective numerology scheme. The reference resource set of at least one numerology scheme overlaps with the reference resource set of at least another numerology scheme in the frequency and/or time domain. The resource allocation procedure is performed for allocating radio resources to one or more user terminals according to the numerology schemes. The resource allocation procedure is performed for each numerology scheme based on a scheduling time interval defined for the respective numerology scheme.

An automatic vehicle braking arrangement includes a vehicle control unit configured to determine whether one or more conditions that must occur to activate an automatic braking function of the vehicle are occurring, to automatically activate the automatic braking function after determining that the one or more conditions are occurring, and to automatically release the automatic braking function after determining that one or more conditions that must occur to release the automatic braking function are occurring. A method for operating such an arrangement is also provided.

To effectively improve the accuracy of abnormality determination of a driver, provided is a vehicle control device comprising a stop hold release control unit configured to execute a stop hold control for holding by activating a brake apparatus, and execute a release control for releasing a stop hold by the brake apparatus when a predetermined release condition is satisfied, an operation input acquiring unit for acquire an operation input of a driver, a driver abnormality determining unit for determining whether the driver is in an abnormal state, and a determination correction unit configured to execute a determination correction for making the driver abnormality determination unit easily determine that the driver is in the abnormal state, when the release control is executed by the stop hold release control unit and the operation input acquisition unit does not acquire the operation input.

An acoustic feedback system includes a memory and processor to receive at least one of a plurality of output signals from a plurality of sensors. The system determines whether an output signal has reached a first threshold, and sends an audible sound signal to a speaker(s) based on the first threshold. Thus, the acoustic feedback system utilizes output signals of various vehicle sensors and generates audible signals based on the sensor output signals.

A method, and associated system and computer program product, for managing braking of a moving vehicle. A speed and deceleration of the moving vehicle are monitored. External and/or internal conditions relating to the moving vehicle and/or the vehicle's driver are detected. A hardware processor: calculates a braking distance for the moving vehicle for the detected external and/or internal conditions from the monitored speed and deceleration of the moving vehicle; determines a spacing distance between the moving vehicle and a second vehicle ahead of the moving vehicle; adds a cascading response distance to the calculated braking distance for a third vehicle ahead of the second vehicle; and determines that the calculated braking distance is greater than the determined spacing distance. An output is generated in response to the determination that the calculated braking distance is greater than the obtained spacing distance.

A vehicle control system may include a mode selector including at least a turn assist mode selectable by an operator of the vehicle to activate a turn assist feature, a controller to employ the turn assist feature by directing application of braking torque to an inside rear wheel of the vehicle during a turn when a trigger condition for implementing the turn assist feature may be detected, and a mu detection module to estimate mu conditions of a surface on which the vehicle may be operating. The controller may further automatically generate a blocking signal to block operation of the turn assist feature responsive to the mu detection module estimating a minimum mu value of the surface that may be less than a threshold mu value.

The invention relates to an assistance system (16) configured to be installed in an ego vehicle (10) and support a driver of the ego vehicle (10) in avoiding a collision of the ego vehicle (10) with another vehicle (18), the assistance system (16) being configured to monitor an environment (40) of the ego vehicle (10) and detect the other vehicle (18) approaching the ego vehicle (10). The assistance system (16) is configured to determine that the driver of the ego vehicle (10) is about to perform a turning maneuver (32) of the ego vehicle (10) towards a driver's side (26) of the ego vehicle (10). The assistance system (16) is configured to determine the risk of a collision resulting from the turning maneuver (32), between the ego vehicle (10) and the other vehicle (18).

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to extend brake life cycle are disclosed herein. An example vehicle includes a first brake associated with a first wheel of the vehicle, a second brake associated with a second wheel of the vehicle, memory, and a brake controller to execute instructions to detect a first parking event, determine, via a first sensor, a condition of the vehicle, access, from the memory, a record of a second parking event including an activation of the first brake, the second parking event preceding the first parking event, and in response to determining the condition satisfies a threshold, engage the second brake without engaging the first brake.

Disclosed is an electronic parking brake system including: an electronic parking brake configured to generate a braking force in a vehicle by a motor; and a controller configured to operate or release the electronic parking brake, wherein the controller is configured to collect, according to detection of a driver's intention to park, at least one of vehicle information, surrounding environment information, or parking mode setting information of the vehicle; set a target braking force for parking the vehicle based on the at least one of the vehicle information, the surrounding environment information, or the parking mode setting information, and control a parking operation of the vehicle to generate the target braking force by operating the electronic parking brake.