An electrically driven vehicle contains a current collector for supplying electrical energy from a bipolar overhead line system. The collector has an articulated support rod, which bears, on the contact wire side, a contact collector having a contact strip, and which is coupled, on the vehicle side, to a lift drive for positioning the support rod and for pressing the contact collector to a contact wire of the overhead wire system, a detection device for detecting a lateral position of a contact point of the contact wire on the contact strip and a driver assistance system for executing an automatic steering intervention as a function of the detected lateral position of the contact point. The vehicle has increased availability for a feed of electrical energy from the overhead line system in that the contact strip is supported on the contact collector via at least two spring elements.

Embodiments describe a battery system that includes a first battery module coupled to a regenerative braking system and a control module that controls operation of the battery system by: determining a predicted driving pattern over a prediction horizon using a driving pattern recognition model based in part on a battery current and a previous driving pattern; determining a predicted battery resistance of the first battery module over the prediction horizon using a recursive battery model based in part on the predicted driving pattern, the battery current, a present bus voltage, and a previous bus voltage; determining a target trajectory of a battery temperature of the first battery module over a control horizon using an objective function; and controlling magnitude and duration of electrical power supplied from the regenerative such that a predicted trajectory of the battery temperature is guided toward the target trajectory of the battery temperature during the control horizon.

Provided is a vehicle control system that appropriately performs synchronization control for a plurality of control systems. A monitoring circuit generates a command signal when only a first reset signal is input. The monitoring circuit generates a command signal when the state in which only the first reset signal is input is changed to the state in which the input of the first reset signal is stopped. With the command signal, a second clock signal is output to a timer generator as a second timing signal. With the command signal, the second clock signal generated by a second synchronization signal generating circuit is output to a first synchronization signal generating circuit, and a third clock signal generated by the first synchronization signal generating circuit is output to a timer generator as a first timing signal.

An on-board charger system, and a method and a device for controlling the on-board charger system to switch between operating modes are provided. An operating mode switching signal for the on-board charger system is acquired. A to-be-started power module in the on-board charger system is controlled, based on the operating mode switching signal, to start in a current source mode and adapt a given current to an operating condition until a power demand of the system is met. The to-be-started power module is switched to a voltage source mode, and controls the voltage across the direct current bus. Throughout the switch, a voltage across a direct current bus in the system remains unchanged.

A method for high-throughput charging of fast charging electrical vehicles (FCEVs), the method may include: (a) obtaining information about optimal charging patterns (CP) of a set of FCEVs that exhibit a charging rate that exceeds two C; (b) determining a set of actual CPs for charging the set of the FCEVs in an at least partially overlapping manner, wherein an actual CP of a given FCEV of the set of the FCEVs is a residual CP that (i) is determined based on a CP of another FCEV of the set of FCEVs, and (ii) significantly differs from an optimal CP of the given FCEV; wherein the CP of the other FCEV is selected out of an optimal CP of the other FCEV and an actual CP of the other FCEV; and (c) executing at least a part of the charging, by a charging system, of the set of the FCEVs in the at least partially overlapping manner.

The battery electric vehicle selects and executes a charge mode from a first charge mode in which power supplied from an external power source device to a first neutral point of a first motor is supplied to a power storage device via the first motor and a first inverter, and a second charge mode in which power supplied from the external power source device to a second neutral point of a second motor is supplied to the power storage device via the second motor and a second inverter, based on at least one of temperatures of the first and second motors and temperatures of the first and second inverters.

Described herein is an assistance system for an electric personal-mobility vehicle (1a) for a person with reduced mobility. The assistance system comprises sensors (50a) configured for supplying data on the current state of the electric vehicle (1a) and a processing system (60, 2, 3). During a path training step, the processing system monitors a control signal (S1; Da, Db) supplied by a user interface (10a) of the electric vehicle (1a) and drives at least one actuator (30) of the electric vehicle (1a) as a function of the control signal (S1; Da, Db). Moreover, the processing system acquires a plurality of positions of the electric vehicle (1a), processes such position data to generate data that define at least one allowed zone, and stores the at least one allowed zone in a memory (62). Instead, during a normal operating step, the processing system determines the current state of the electric vehicle (1a) as a function of the data supplied by the sensors (50a) and monitors the control signal (S1; Da, Db) supplied by the user interface (10a). On the basis of these data, the processing system estimates a future state of the electric vehicle (1a) and determines whether the future position of the vehicle is within at least one allowed zone stored in the memory (62). In the case where the future position is within at least one allowed zone, the processing system drives the at least one actuator (30) of the electric vehicle (1a) as a function of the control signal (S1; Da, Db). Instead, in the case where the future position is not within at least one allowed zone, the processing system may control the actuators for keeping the electric vehicle (1a) within at least one allowed zone and/or generate an alert signal.

A control device and a method for triggering a passenger protection arrangement for a vehicle are provided, an interface being provided that is used to receive at least one signal whose amplitude is a function of the vehicle battery voltage or a substitute voltage that takes its place. Furthermore, a trigger circuit is provided that triggers the passenger protection arrangement as a function of at least one signal. The interface has a circuit that derives at least one switching threshold from a supply voltage produced in the control device (substitute voltage that is retained for a certain amount of time in the autarchy case/under-supply case/contact problems) to detect the at least one signal, and one switching threshold that is directly derived from the battery voltage (standard), or from the amplitude of the bus voltage.

A method for automatically transferring at least one pivotable trolley pole, in particular of a trolleybus, from a start position into an end position which corresponds, in particular, to a contact position on an overhead line. The end position is assigned at least one setpoint position value, at least one actual position value of a current position of the trolley pole is detected, and the trolley pole is pivoted automatically about at least one axis. A setpoint speed is determined from a positional deviation of the detected actual position value from the setpoint position value, and a dynamic limitation to a dynamically limited setpoint speed is carried out in order to avoid overshooting when the end position is reached.

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A power system includes a power source configured to output electrical power, a power converter configured to convert the electrical power into a converted power, and a power bus configured to deliver the converted power to a power load connected to the power bus. The power system further includes a controller that implements a neural network (NN) trained to perform a NN-based model predictive control (NNMPC). The controller utilizes the NNMPC to obtain at least one learned control input for power regulation for a current system state and power load measurement of the power load in real-time, and to perform an output action that regulates the power system based on the at least one learned control input obtained by the NNMPC.