A vehicle control apparatus which performs a travel control of a vehicle during a traffic jam, includes a wheel setting unit configured to set at least one wheel to be a brake wheel to be applied with a braking force during the travel control and at least one wheel to be a non-brake wheel not to be applied with the braking force during the travel control, and a control unit configured to perform the travel control of the vehicle based on a rotation amount of the at least one brake wheel and a rotation amount of the at least one non-brake wheel detected by a wheel speed sensor detecting the rotation amount of a wheel of the vehicle.

A controller can display via an instrument cluster a brake capacity based on a temperature of friction material of at least one brake of a vehicle and a predicted brake fade threshold that is derived from a speed, mass, and current angle of inclination of the vehicle.

A number of variations are disclosed including a system and method for modifying, in real-time, at least one brake or powertrain application to individual roadwheels of a vehicle to increase lateral maneuver capability in a vehicle having an operational, partially operational, failing, or failed electronic steering system. The system and method may include modifying at least one brake or powertrain command to individual roadwheels where vehicle instability is detected.

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.

A braking system (200) is described for at least one vehicle (V), particularly at least one railway vehicle, comprising control means arranged to: a) determine a real instantaneous deceleration value of the vehicle during the actuation of braking means (202); b) determine a real friction value between braking means and at least one wheel or at least one disc, as a function of at least said real instantaneous deceleration value, a test mass value of the vehicle and a value of an actuation signal; c) replace a predetermined expected friction value stored in the storage medium (210, 210) with the determined real friction value.

Further described is a system for calibrating a braking system of at least one vehicle, and a process for calibrating a braking system of at least one vehicle (V), and vehicles.

A reverse assist system for a saddle riding vehicle includes a switch configured to be displaced between a first position and a second position. The switch is displaced to the second position to activate a reverse assist strategy. The reverse assist system also includes a sensing unit to determine at least one of a speed or an acceleration of the saddle riding vehicle, and a controller arranged in communication with the switch, the sensing unit, and a front brake. The controller is configured to activate the reverse assist strategy in response to the displacement of the switch to the second position, and control the front brake to control braking of a front wheel based on at least one of the speed or the acceleration of the saddle riding vehicle to assist a rider to reverse the saddle riding vehicle according to the reverse assist strategy.

A system for determining the length of a road train includes controllers on both towing and towed vehicles. Each controller may transmit a vehicle length and GPS coordinates in a specified wireless message format. The towing vehicle controller receives a first wireless message from the towed vehicle controller. The wireless message includes at least one of a speed of the towed vehicle, a length of the towed vehicle and GPS coordinates of the towed vehicle. The towing vehicle controller determines if the towed vehicle transmitting the message is coupled to the towed vehicle and then adds the length of the towed vehicle to the length of the towing vehicle to attain an overall length of the road train in response to the determination that the towed vehicle transmitting the wireless message is coupled to the towing vehicle. The towing vehicle controller then transmits the overall length of the road train.

Provided is a device control apparatus including a first instrument push apparatus and a touch sensing portion operated by an operation of a user and a controller which controls an operation of a user device based on operations by the first instrument push apparatus and the touch sensing portion. The controller outputs sensing commands with respect to the operations with respect to the first instrument push apparatus and the touch sensing portion. Here, a first sensing command is output by sensing the operation with respect to the first instrument push apparatus, and a second sensing command is output by sensing the operation with respect to the touch sensing portion.

The present disclosure relates to a system for real time control of a wheel slip of each slipping wheel of a pair of wheels associated with an axle of a motor vehicle, simultaneously and independently with real time explicit control of said motor vehicle's acceleration provided by each non-slipping wheel associated with the axle. The system makes use of a total controller and an asymmetric controller associated with the axle of the vehicle for generating two torque signals used to control the total and asymmetric dynamics respectively of the axle, and a distributor for distributing the two said torque signals into available actuators' targets. The two said controllers each contain feedback and feed forward control elements, is operable to sense wheel slippage condition of each wheel on the axle, and augments the feedback and feed forward control based on the sensed wheel slippage conditions.

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).