A steering apparatus includes an actuator and an actuator controller. The actuator is configured to generate an output for turning a steerable wheel of a vehicle. The actuator controller is configured to control the actuator in accordance with a steering input. The actuator controller includes a filtering processor configured to perform filtering processing for reducing or cutting a component in a predetermined frequency band from the steering input, and the actuator controller is configured to control the actuator in accordance with the steering input after the filtering processing.

A vehicle control system includes a steering operation element configured to receive a steering operation of a vehicle by a driver, a grip detector configured to detect a gripping state of the steering operation element by the driver of the vehicle, a traveling controller configured to perform traveling control related to steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle, and a determiner configured to determine on the presence or absence of execution of the traveling control or the degree of execution of the traveling control based on the gripping state.

A method for controlling a vehicle along a trajectory, in which the vehicle has a control device which plans the trajectory within a definable search space of the trajectory and can access actuators of the vehicle in order to control the vehicle , wherein at least one limit value is determined for at least one manipulated variable of an actuator and a search space of the manipulated variable is defined on the basis of the at least one limit value, wherein the search space is used to plan the trajectory.

Systems and methods are provided for autonomous vehicle navigation. The systems and methods may map a lane mark, may map a directional arrow, selectively harvest road information based on data quality, map road segment free spaces, map traffic lights and determine traffic light relevancy, and map traffic lights and associated traffic light cycle times.

An apparatus including a command front wheel angle acquirer to acquire a command front wheel angle, a four-wheel target angle calculator to calculate a turning radius, which is a distance from a center of rotation when a vehicle is turning to a center of gravity in a Bicycle model, using the model in a state in which a front wheel angle of the model is simulated as the command front wheel angle, to calculate a rotation angle at the center of gravity of the model on the basis of a ratio of rotation angles of front and rear wheels of the vehicle calculated from a state parameter of the vehicle, and to calculate a target angle of each of the four wheels on the basis of the turning radius and the rotation angle, and a controller to independently control steering of the four wheels using the calculated each target angle.

A method of controlling rear wheel steering in a vehicle including determining a stability state of the vehicle from a plurality of vehicle sensor inputs, determining a target vehicle performance based on the stability state of the vehicle, and determining a target rear angle of rear vehicle wheels based on a difference between a target vehicle characteristic and a model vehicle characteristic, wherein the target vehicle performance promotes agility and stability to a target model at different times based on the stability state of the vehicle.

An apparatus of assisting lane following by considering a time delay for a front wheel steering angle, in association with parking, and a method for the same are provided. The apparatus obtains surrounding information of a vehicle, determines a target route, based on the obtained surrounding information and a target front wheel steering angle based on the target route, determines a target handle steering angle depending on the target route, based on the target front wheel steering angle, while considering a time delay of a steering system of the vehicle, and performs a lane following assist control operation to follow the target route, based on the target handle steering angle.

A method for controlling an active rear axle steering of a motor vehicle when steering out from straight travel with given actual dynamics of the wheel guidance of the motor vehicle, wherein an actual steering signal of the motor vehicle is received by a control circuit from at least one sensor, then from the actual steering signal a dynamic model of the wheel guidance calculates a time variation of a differential signal describing a deviation of the actual steering signal from an imaginary nominal steering signal which would be needed in order to perform the steering with a given nominal dynamics, and from the differential signal a predetermined conversion rule is used to generate a nominal steering signal for the rear axle steering and the rear axle steering is actuated with this.

Provided is a vehicle display device configured to be mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle display device includes a curve detection unit, a road state categorization unit, and a display unit. The curve detection unit detects a curve that is included in a target traveling line and has a curvature. The road state categorization unit categorizes a state of the road on which the target traveling line including the curve is set, in one class out of a plurality of classes, according to possibility of presence of the curve having the curvature of a predetermined value or more. The display unit displays a representation that indicates the curvature of the curve. The curvature corresponds to the class in which the state of the road has been categorized.

An embodiment of a method of controlling one or more components of a vehicle includes receiving a reference steering command and one or more measurement signals related to a steering system of a vehicle, and estimating, by a processing device, a state of the steering system based on the one or more measurement signals, the steering system including at least a handwheel and a steering motor. The method also includes determining a maximum state achievable by the steering system at one or more times subsequent to receiving the one or more measurement signals, and controlling, by a control module, the steering system based on the steering reference command and the maximum state.