Disclosed is an autonomous driving device in which a threshold value for switching to manual driving which is used for switching a driving state from autonomous driving to manual driving with respect to degree to which a steering operation is carried out by a driver is calculated to be a greater value by a calculation unit when the direction of the steering operation is predicted to be a direction close to an obstacle than a threshold value when the direction of the steering operation is predicted to be a direction away from the obstacle or a threshold value when no obstacle is detected.

A path-adapting system for precautionary path planning of a host vehicle. The path-adapting system determines conditions of a liquid and/or solid loose material in the air and/or on the road surface in vicinity of the host vehicle, determines movement attributes in relation to the host vehicle of at least a first object in host vehicle surroundings, determines based on the conditions and movement attributes, at least a first estimated upcoming host vehicle position occurring at an estimated upcoming at least first time instance at which the at least first detected object is estimated to direct the material onto the host vehicle and/or the host vehicle is estimated to direct the material onto the at least first detected object, and determines a driving path, altering for the at least first time instance the at least first estimated upcoming host vehicle position to a modified host vehicle position.

The present application relates to a method for performing off road adaptive cruise control in a host vehicle including controlling a vehicle speed at a first speed according to an adaptive cruise control algorithm, detecting an obstacle, using a sensor, within a host vehicle path, reducing the vehicle speed to a reduced speed in response to the detection of the obstacle, detecting a vehicle contact with the obstacle in response to a first inertial measurement unit measurement, applying a brake friction force and increasing an engine torque in response to detecting the vehicle contact with the obstacle, determining a traverse of the obstacle in response to a second inertial measurement unit measurement, and resuming the control of the vehicle speed at the first speed in response to the traverse of the obstacle.

A method for determining event data including: sampling a first data stream within a first time window at a first sensor of an onboard vehicle system coupled to a vehicle, extracting interior activity data from the first data stream; determining an interior event based on the interior activity data; sampling a second data stream within a second time window at a second sensor of the onboard vehicle system; extracting exterior activity data from the second image stream; determining an exterior event based on the exterior activity data; correlating the exterior event and the interior event to generate combined event data; automatically classifying the combined event data to generate an event label; and automatically labeling the first time window of the first data stream and the second time window of the second data stream with the combined event label to generate labeled event data.

A method for carrying out an automated or autonomous driving operation of a vehicle on a route involves generating a target trajectory and guiding the vehicle a function of the generated target trajectory. The target trajectory is generated as a function of the detected uneven surface when an uneven surface is detected on the route. When detecting an uneven surface running across the route transversely to the route and designed as a transverse uneven surface, in particular as a speed bump, the target trajectory is generated in such a way that the transverse uneven surface is driven over with a time delay for wheels of each individual axle of the vehicle.

The present disclosure relates to navigational systems for vehicles. In one implementation, such a navigational system may receive a first output from a first sensor and a second output from a second sensor; identify a target object in the first output; determine whether the target object is included in the second output; and determine a detected driving condition associated with the target object and whether the condition triggers a navigational constraint. If the navigational constraint is not triggered, the system may cause a first navigational adjustment if the target object is included in both the first output and the second output, and may forego any navigational adjustments if the target object is included in the first output but not in the second output. If the navigational constraint is triggered and the target object is included either in the first or second output, the system may cause a second navigational adjustment.

A vehicle (100) may include one or more image sensors (110) configured to provide sensor image data (112d) representing a sensor image of a vicinity of the vehicle (100), and one or more processors (120) configured to determine one or more obstacles (132) from the sensor image data (112d), to determine a distance from ground for each of the one or more obstacles (132) based its corresponding image object (114), and to trigger a safety operation when the distance from ground is equal to or less than a safety height associated with the vehicle (100). A method for avoiding a collision of a vehicle with one or more obstacles.

A method of controlling a vehicle when the vehicle passes over a speed bump, may include: dividing sections of the road into a first section within a first time period before the front wheel of the vehicle collides with the speed bump, a second section while the front wheel collides with the speed bump, a third section within a second time period before the rear wheel collides with the speed bump, and a fourth section while the rear wheel collides with the speed bump; and controlling and distributing at least one of suspension damping force, driving power and braking force to the front wheel and the rear wheel for each of the first section, the second section, the third section and the fourth section to reduce the amount of impact to be applied when the vehicle collides with the speed bump and to reduce a vertical motion of the vehicle that occurs while the vehicle goes over the speed bump.

A vehicle control apparatus includes: a road recognizer that recognizes a road form around a vehicle; a second-vehicle recognizer that recognizes a state of another vehicle around the vehicle; and a driving controller that allows the vehicle to travel by controlling one or both of steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle and that prevents, upon passing of the vehicle through an intersection, passing of the vehicle through the intersection based on a presence of the other vehicle recognized by the second-vehicle recognizer, wherein in a case where the driving controller recognizes, by the road recognizer, that a plurality of lanes are present in a road of a right/left turn destination of the vehicle and recognizes, by the second-vehicle recognizer, that the other vehicle, which was an opposing vehicle approaching from a direction opposing the vehicle, has entered a lane on a rear side in a view from the vehicle among the plurality of lanes in the road of the right/left turn destination, the driving controller continues an entry control to the road of the right/left turn destination of the vehicle.

A system for evaluating a risk value associated with an object on the road and a method for the same are provided. The method may include detecting, by a plurality of sensors, an object on a road that a vehicle travels, wherein each sensor of the plurality of sensor is configured to detect different types of the object; after detecting the object on the road, classifying, by a processor, the object into an object type; identifying, by the processor, a plurality of maneuvering options of the vehicle corresponding to the object type; calculating, by the processor, risk values of each maneuvering option; and selecting, by the processor, a maneuvering option, wherein a risk value of the selected maneuvering option is equal to or less than a predetermined risk value.