This application relates to the automated driving field, and discloses a method for identifying abnormal driving behavior, a system, and a vehicle including the system. The method for identifying abnormal driving behavior includes: obtaining vehicle driving behavior data, and determining, based on the vehicle driving behavior data, whether a vehicle is in a state of suspicious abnormal driving behavior; obtaining current vehicle driving scenario data if the vehicle is in the state of suspicious abnormal driving behavior; and determining, based on the vehicle driving behavior data and the current vehicle driving scenario data, whether the suspicious abnormal driving behavior is abnormal driving behavior. In the technical solutions of this application, current driving scenario information is introduced to an identification process of abnormal driving behavior of the vehicle, so that accuracy of identifying the abnormal driving behavior is improved.

A driving force control system for a hybrid vehicle for reducing a required time to launch the hybrid vehicle after selecting a reverse range while maintaining a driving force. The control system is configured to change an engine start threshold to restrict a startup of the engine upon satisfaction of a restricting condition, in which a low mode is established by a transmission mechanism, and a reverse drive range is selected.

An engine-type industrial vehicle includes: an engine; a power transmission configured to transmit a driving force of the engine to a driving wheel; a controller configured to adjust the driving force; a travel direction determiner configured to determine a travel direction of the engine-type industrial vehicle; and an object detector configured to detect a position of an object in the travel direction of the engine-type industrial vehicle. The power transmission is switchable between a driving force transmission state and a driving force non-transmission state. The controller causes a state of the engine-type industrial vehicle to be in a travel start prohibition state, when the object detector detects the object and a detection direction of the object matches the travel direction, in a case where a vehicle speed of the engine-type industrial vehicle is equal to or less than a stop determination threshold.

Various aspects of a system and method for driving assistance along a path are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, a unique identifier is received from a communication device at an electronic control unit (ECU) of a first vehicle. The unique identifier is received when the first vehicle has reached a first location along a first portion of the path. A communication channel is established between the first vehicle and the communication device based on the received unique identifier. Data associated with a second portion of the path is received by the ECU from the communication device based on the established communication channel. Alert information associated with the second portion of the path is generated by the ECU based on the received data.

An information processing apparatus includes: a point group data acquisition unit configured to acquire, based on information from a sensor configured to detect an object existing in surroundings of a vehicle, point group data related to a plurality of points representing the object; a movement amount estimation unit configured to estimate a movement amount of the vehicle; a storage unit configured to store, as a point group map recorded in association with position information including a latitude and a longitude, relative positions of the plurality of points relative to a first reference position that is a place on a travel path of the vehicle; and a position estimation unit configured to estimate a position of the vehicle based on the point group map, the point group data, and the movement amount.

A method for quantifying vehicle path following performance, the method comprising; obtaining samples of path following performance (I), selecting a subset of the path following performance samples such that the selected samples follow a pre-determined statistical extreme value distribution, parameterizing the pre-determined statistical extreme value distribution based on the selected samples of path following performance, and quantifying vehicle path following performance based on the parameterized statistical extreme value distribution.

A vehicle control device recognizes a second self-position, which is obtained by correcting a first self-position, and an orientation of a vehicle on a road, on which the vehicle is traveling, based on a situation around the vehicle, the first self-position, and map information, determines a steering control mode and a speed control mode of the vehicle based on the second self-position and the orientation of the vehicle, and performs automated driving by controlling the vehicle based on the determined control modes. When the vehicle is scheduled to advance from a first lane to a second lane and it is not possible to recognize a target associated with a road indicating an end point of a merging section, a determiner determines a steering angle control mode for searching for the target based on the second self-position and the orientation of the vehicle.

Aspects of the disclosure provide for generating distributions for hypothetical or potentially occluded objects. For instance, a location for which to generate one or more distributions may be identified. Observations of road users by perception systems of a plurality of autonomous vehicles may be accessed. Each of these observations may identify a characteristic of one of the road users. A distribution of the characteristic for the location may be determined based on the observations. The distribution may be provided to one or more autonomous vehicles in order to enable the one or more autonomous vehicles to use the distribution to generate a characteristic for a hypothetical occluded road user and to respond to the hypothetical occluded road user.

An apparatus for controlling backward driving of a vehicle including: a driving trajectory generation unit configured to generate a driving trajectory for backward driving of an ego vehicle on a target path, using sensing information acquired while the ego vehicle drives forward along the target path; and a control unit configured to control the backward driving of the ego vehicle on the target path according to the driving trajectory generated by the driving trajectory generation unit, correct the driving trajectory using driving information of another vehicle, which has driven backward on the target path before the ego vehicle, when a change on the target path is sensed in comparison to during the forward driving of the ego vehicle during the process of controlling the backward driving of the ego vehicle, and control the backward driving of the ego vehicle according to the corrected driving trajectory.

A driving force control apparatus includes: a sensor that collects information associated with a state of a vehicle, a driving device that provides a driving force to a drive wheel of the vehicle, and a processor electrically connected with the sensor and the driving device. In particular, the processor calculates a required driving force of a driver and a limit driving force of the vehicle based on at least a portion of information collected by means of the sensor, in a situation where the vehicle is turning. The processor further controls the driving device such that the required driving force does not exceed the limit driving force.