An automatic cruise control system for controlling at least a powertrain of a vehicle, the cruise control system being configured to automatically control a vehicle speed to a target speed determined based on a set speed and on information relating to a road topography along an expected travelling route of the vehicle. The automatic cruise control system is configured to: while automatically controlling the vehicle speed to the target speed, receive an indication that a slippery road condition applies or is expected to apply, in response to receiving said indication, activate a predefined slippery road condition driving mode in which predetermined restrictions apply, said restrictions relating to at least one of the vehicle speed, an allowable vehicle acceleration, and a gear selection of the powertrain, control at least the powertrain in accordance with the slippery road condition driving mode.

An automatic cruise control system for controlling at least a powertrain of a vehicle, the cruise control system being configured to automatically control a vehicle speed to a target speed determined based on a set speed and on information relating to a road topography along an expected travelling route of the vehicle. The automatic cruise control system is configured to: while automatically controlling the vehicle speed to the target speed, receive an indication that a slippery road condition applies or is expected to apply, in response to receiving said indication, activate a predefined slippery road condition driving mode in which predetermined restrictions apply, said restrictions relating to at least one of the vehicle speed, an allowable vehicle acceleration, and a gear selection of the powertrain, control at least the powertrain in accordance with the slippery road condition driving mode.

System for automatically recognising anomalous situations along roads travelled by motor-vehicles for intelligent motor-vehicle driving speed control along roads.

The motor-vehicles are configured to transmit data allowing anomalous situations to be recognised along roads travelled by the motor-vehicles.

The system comprises data processing resources configured to:

receive and process data transmitted by the motor-vehicles to recognise anomalous situations along the roads travelled by the motor-vehicles based on a recognition algorithm,

when anomalous situations are recognised along roads travelled by the motor-vehicles, generate associated alert events and compute reference driving speeds along the roads recognised to be affected by anomalous situations, and

transmit data representative of the alert events and of the reference driving speeds along the roads recognised to be affected by anomalous situations.

The motor-vehicles are further configured to:

receive data representative of alert events and reference driving speeds, and

use the received data to implement one or both of the following actions: inform the drivers of motor-vehicles, through automotive user interfaces of motor-vehicles of the anomalous situations recognised along roads travelled by motor-vehicles, and cause current driving speeds of the motor-vehicles to be adjusted to the reference driving speeds along roads recognised to be affected by anomalous situations.

A driving limitation system includes the steps of: identifying a driver by a driver authentication means; extracting information on the identified driver; extracting data relating to vehicle speed limitation according to the driver; extracting data relating to limitation in a vehicle traveling area according to the driver; performing selection or generation of map data regarding a traveling area; generating, on the basis of the extracted data relating to the vehicle speed limitation, vehicle traveling area limitation and the driver, a traveling speed control command within the limitation in the vehicle traveling area in accordance with the physical ability and/or cognitive ability of the driver; transmitting the traveling speed control command to a vehicle speed control means; generating a control command for controlling the vehicle speed on the basis of the safety speed indicated by the vehicle speed control means; and sending the control command to an engine and to a braking system to set the traveling speed of the vehicle to be equal to or lower than the safety speed according to the driver.

The application disclose an autonomous-driving-based control method performed by a computer device. The method includes: acquiring scene information of a target vehicle; determining a current lane changing scene type of the target vehicle according to the scene information; recognizing, when the current lane changing scene type is a mandatory lane changing scene type, a first lane for completing a navigation travel route, and, when the first lane satisfies a lane changing safety check condition, controlling the target vehicle to perform lane changing operation according to the first lane. The second lane for optimizing the travel time is recognized according to the scene information when the current lane changing scene type is the free lane changing scene type. When the second lane satisfies the lane changing safety check condition, the target vehicle is controlled to perform lane changing operation according to the second lane.

[Problem] To provide an automatic driving robot control device and control method that enable a vehicle to be operated smoothly while also being caused to conform to a command vehicle speed with high accuracy.

[Solution] The present invention provides an automatic driving robot (drive robot) 4 control device 10 that controls the automatic driving robot 4, which is installed in a vehicle 2 and causes the vehicle 2 to run, such that the vehicle 2 runs in accordance with a defined command vehicle speed, wherein the automatic driving robot 4 control device 10 is provided with: a running state acquisition unit 22 that acquires a running state of the vehicle 2 including a vehicle speed and the command vehicle speed; an operation content inference unit 31 that infers, on the basis of the running state, an operation sequence, which is a sequence of operations of the vehicle 2 at a plurality of times in the future that causes the vehicle 2 to run in accordance with the command vehicle speed, by using an operation inference learning model 40 that was trained by machine learning to infer the operation sequence; and a vehicle operation control unit 23 that extracts, from each of the operation sequences inferred a plurality of times in the past, the operations corresponding to a control time for subsequently controlling the automatic driving robot 4, calculates a weighted sum of these extracted plurality of operations to calculate a final operation value, generates, on the basis of the final operation value, a control signal for controlling the automatic driving robot 4, and transmits the control signal to the automatic driving robot 4.

An HMI control device, which controls an HMI device mounted on a vehicle. The HMI device presents information to a driver of the vehicle in a recognizable manner. The vehicle is capable of automated driving and travels following a preceding vehicle at a speed equal to or lower than a predetermined speed. The HMI control device is configured to: present attention information for calling attention of the driver when a congestion is determined to be cleared; acquire a behavior of the driver; and end a second task presented on the HMI device at an end timing corresponding to the behavior of the driver acquired after presentation of the attention information.

In one aspect, an operating method of an intelligence vehicle driving control system is provided that comprises: a collecting step of collecting big data including a wheel torque and a speed for every vehicle type and traffic information; a torque calculating step of learning the big data using a predetermined machine learning model and inputs a specific desired speed profile to the machine learning model to calculate a motor torque of a driving vehicle; and an optimal speed profile deriving step of calculating an energy consumption required to generate the calculated motor torque using a predetermined dynamic programming method and a reverse vehicle dynamic model and deriving an optimal speed profile in which the energy consumption is minimized.

An automatic vehicle speed control system for use in a vehicle having an implement is disclosed. The automatic vehicle speed control system includes: a controller configured to: set a speed of the vehicle to a creep setting; monitor one or more operating conditions of the implement; and automatically adjust the speed of the vehicle based on the one or more operating conditions of the implement.

A cruise control method for a vehicle includes: calculating maximum and minimum vehicle speeds based on a reference vehicle speed in a driving mode of deceleration after acceleration; setting a range of an upper and lower limit vehicle speeds for acceleration and deceleration driving by adding and subtracting a preset incremental value to and from the reference vehicle speed within the maximum and minimum vehicle speeds; calculating fuel efficiency by calculating fuel quantity and mileage according to a preset acceleration condition and by calculating fuel quantity and mileage according to fuel cut control and neutral control in a deceleration condition within the range of the upper and lower limit vehicle speeds; repeating the fuel efficiency calculation when the incremental value is additionally added to and subtracted from the range; and determining a set of driving conditions through repeating the calculating fuel efficiency.