The present disclosure relates to a hydraulic pump assembly comprising: a variable displacement pump, preferably a load-sensing variable displacement pump, for outputting a volume flow rate of a hydraulic fluid, an electric motor for driving the variable displacement pump, in particular a swashplate or swivel angle pump, via a variable-speed drive shaft, and a control unit which is connected to the variable displacement pump and the electric motor and is configured to provide a predetermined volume flow rate by controlling the variable displacement pump and the electric motor. The hydraulic pump assembly is characterized in that the pump assembly further comprises a temperature sensor connected to the control unit, which senses a winding temperature of the electric motor, wherein as long as the winding temperature is below a threshold, the control unit is configured to provide the predetermined volume flow rate.

An arrangement for operating a load-controlled hydraulic system of an agricultural tractor, includes a hydraulic pump generating a system pressure and having an actuating device to adjust a displacement volume, a hydrostatic vehicle steering system connected to the hydraulic pump and having a steering orbitrol and a first load-indicating pressure, a pressure-regulating valve connected upstream of the steering orbitrol and actuated via a pressure difference decreasing across a throttle element counter to a predetermined restoring force in accordance with the first load-indicating pressure, a second hydraulic consumer connected to the hydraulic pump and feeding a second load-indicating pressure back to a shuttle valve arrangement, which compares and transmits the respectively higher of the first and second load-indicating pressures to the actuating device to adjust the displacement volume, and a pressure-copying valve indirectly feeding back the first load-indicating pressure to the shuttle valve arrangement.

A collision avoidance support device comprises target detection unit, target type determination unit, relative position determination unit, target track prediction unit, and vehicle track prediction unit, obstacle determination unit. The vehicle track prediction unit is configured to enlarge said width of a vehicle predicted track compared with a case where an enlargement condition is not satisfied when the enlargement condition is satisfied. The enlargement condition is satisfied when the relative position determination unit detects that a target determined to be a pedestrian by the target type determination unit is positioned on a travel lane at least once.

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that mitigate hard-braking events. An example apparatus at least one memory; instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: determine a danger level associated with an object, the danger level indicative of a first measure of damage corresponding to a trajectory of the object compared to a trajectory of a vehicle; determine, based on the first danger level, a danger measure based on at least one of a position of the object, a velocity of the object, an acceleration of the object, a direction of travel of the object, a weight or mass of the object; and generate instructions to transmit to a steering system or a braking system of the vehicle based on the determination.

Techniques are described for determining failover to a redundant braking system. An example method can include a system determining a fault occurring in a braking system of an autonomous vehicle (AV) operating in an autonomous mode, the braking system comprising a first braking system and a second braking system, the fault occurring in at least one of the first braking system and the second braking system, and the AV using the first braking system. The system can further determine whether to switch from using the first braking system based at least in part on determining the fault. The system can further transmit to an alert system of the AV, a request to generate an alert for manual control of the AV based at least in part on determining the fault. The system can further deactivate the autonomous mode of the AV based at least in part on determining the fault.

A collision avoidance assistance device configured to perform driver steering assistance to avoid a collision between a vehicle and an obstacle, the device includes a steering control unit configured to perform the steering assistance in a case where it is determined that there is a possibility of the collision between the vehicle and the obstacle. During a period from commencement of the steering assistance to elapsing of a first time determined by response characteristics of a lateral acceleration of the vehicle, the steering control unit is configured to rotate a steering wheel of the vehicle in a collision avoidance direction by a control amount determined based on a steering holding force of the driver.

A vehicle includes a steering system, a vehicle speed detector, a brake system, and a control system. The control system is coupled with steering system for implementing a backup mode for reversing a trailer including controlling the steering system to maintain the trailer along a path. The control system is further coupled with the speed detector and the brake system and selectively outputs a rate-limited brake torque demand to the brake system to maintain a vehicle speed below a threshold speed.

Techniques are described for determining failover to a redundant braking system. An example method can include determining a fault occurring at a first braking system or a second braking system of a primary braking system of an autonomous vehicle operating in an autonomous mode, and the autonomous vehicle using the first braking system. The method can further include switching from using the first braking system in the autonomous mode if the fault is determined at the first braking system. The method can further include transmitting to an alert system of the autonomous vehicle, a request to generate an alert for switching to a manual control mode of the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on determining the fault. The method can further include deactivating the autonomous mode of the autonomous vehicle upon determining that the autonomous vehicle is in the manual control mode.

A brake control device includes: a liquid pressure line provided for each vehicle wheel and supplied with a brake liquid pressure; a pressurization unit configured to supply a pressurization brake liquid pressure to the liquid pressure line; an abnormality detection unit configured to detect an abnormality of the liquid pressure line at a time the brake liquid pressure of the liquid pressure line is not greater than a threshold value; and a pressurization adjustment unit configured to continuously supply the pressurization brake liquid pressure to the liquid pressure line of the normal vehicle wheel having a low abnormality occurrence risk and suppress the supply pressure of the pressurization brake liquid pressure to the liquid pressure line of the vehicle wheel having a high abnormality occurrence risk until the abnormality of the liquid pressure line is detected by the abnormality detection unit.

A driver assist arrangement includes a first yaw rate controller, a hazard evaluation unit, a driver intention evaluation unit, and a second yaw rate controller. The first yaw rate controller is configured to control a yaw rate of a vehicle hosting the arrangement by comparing an expected yaw rate with an actual yaw rate, and in response thereto selectively apply brakes of respective wheels of the host vehicle. The second yaw rate controller is configured to intervene in the control of the first yaw rate controller in case the evaluated risk of an accident is above a threshold value and occurrence of an avoidance maneuver initiated by the driver is detected. A vehicle including a driver assist arrangement and a method of assisting a driver of a vehicle are also provided.