A traffic warning method and apparatus includes: obtaining driving status information of a dangerous vehicle on a target road and pavement status information of the target road; determining potential collision strength of the dangerous vehicle against a first vehicle according to driving status information of the first vehicle on the target road, the driving status information of the dangerous vehicle, and the pavement status information of the target road; correcting the potential collision strength of the dangerous vehicle against the first vehicle according to a difference between a performance parameter of the dangerous vehicle and a performance parameter of a non-dangerous vehicle on the target road; and performing traffic warning according to the corrected potential collision strength of the dangerous vehicle against the first vehicle.

A vehicle idling stop control device has switches that detect an operation of opening a driver's door and an unbuckling of a driver's seat belt as disembarkation operations by a driver. When a disembarkation operation performed by the driver is detected during an idling stop, the idling stop is cancelled and the engine is restarted upon detecting a disembarkation operation performed by a driver during the idling stop. Also, restarting of the idling stop is prevented due to ending of the disembarkation operation performed by the driver until after the vehicle starts traveling. Thus, unnecessary automatic stopping and automatic restarting of the engine are thereby avoided when the vehicle sets off without the driver actually exiting the vehicle.

A method is disclosed to control an exhaust gas after-treatment system with at least one catalytic converter arranged along an exhaust duct and a burner, which is suited to introduce exhaust gases into the exhaust duct, wherein inside the burner there is defined a combustion chamber, which receives fresh air through an air feeding circuit and fuel from an injector; the method comprises housing a temperature and pressure sensor interposed between a pumping device and the burner or leaving the burner; acquiring the pressure signal generated by the combustion inside the combustion chamber and detected by said temperature and pressure sensor; and controlling the combustion inside the combustion chamber as a function of said pressure signal.

A combustion system is applied to an engine. The combustion system includes an injection device that injects a fuel into a combustion chamber, a spark plug that ignites fuel in the combustion chamber, and a control device that controls the injection device and the spark plug. The control device includes a first control unit that executes predetermined first control. In the first control, control is performed such that, a total injection amount corresponding to all the fuel injected by the injection device in one combustion cycle of the engine is injected within a first period corresponding to a period from valve close timing which brings an intake valve into a closed state until a first half of a compression stroke of the engine ends.

A system and method include measuring input electric current that is input into an electrically controlled valve to change a position of the valve. Output electric current that is output from the valve in response to the input electric current being input into the electrically controlled valve is measured. Position signals are generated using a sensor coupled with the electrically controlled valve that are indicative of the position of the valve. Baseline values associated with the input electric current, the output electric current, and the position signals are calculated. A health state of the valve is determined by comparing the baseline values associated with the input electric current, the output electric current, and the position signals with subsequently measured values associated with the input electric current, the output electric current, and the position signals.

Methods and systems for heating an emission control device are provided. In one example, a method for a vehicle comprises during an engine cold start, heating an emission control device of the engine using a dual heat exchanger to heat secondary air and cool exhaust gas, and further heat secondary air with an electric heater. The method further comprises directing the heated secondary air to each exhaust runner of the engine via individual air injectors to mix with exhaust gas. In this way, an improved mixture of air and exhaust reduces catalyst light-off time and increases conversion efficiency, thereby reducing hydrocarbon emissions during engine cold start.

In exemplary embodiments, methods and systems are provided for controlling emissions for a drive system for a vehicle. In one embodiment, the system includes: one or more first sensors configured to measure an engine temperature pertaining to an engine of the vehicle; one or more second sensors configured to measure an ambient temperature surrounding the vehicle; one or more third sensors configured to detect an amount of running time in which the engine has been running; and a processor coupled to the one or more first sensors, the one or more second sensors, and the one or more third sensors and configured to at least facilitate controlling emissions for the drive system based on the engine temperature, the ambient temperature, and the amount of running time in which the engine has been running.

A system for detecting and controlling air-fuel ratio imbalance conditions between cylinders of an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders is disclosed.

Systems and methods for controlling fuel factions delivered to different cylinders are provided. In one example, a controller is configured to, during a single engine cycle and responsive to a first condition, deliver a lower fraction of a first fuel into a donor cylinder in comparison to a fraction of the first fuel being injected into a non-donor cylinder and deliver a higher fraction of a second fuel into the donor cylinder in comparison to a fraction of the second fuel being injected into the non-donor cylinder.

A pure pose solution method and system for a multi-view camera pose and scene are provided. The method includes: a pure rotation recognition (PRR) step: performing PRR on all views, and marking views having a pure rotation abnormality, to obtain marked views and non-marked views; a global translation linear (GTL) calculation step: selecting one of the non-marked views as a reference view, constructing a constraint t.sub.r=0, constructing a GTL constraint, solving a global translation (I), reconstructing a global translation of the marked views according to t.sub.r and (I), and screening out a correct solution of the global translation; and a structure analytical reconstruction (SAR) step: performing analytical reconstruction on coordinates of all 3D points according to a correct solution of a global pose. The method and system can greatly improve the computational efficiency and robustness of the multi-view camera pose and scene structure reconstruction.