B60K2031/0033

METHOD AND SUBSYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN AUTONOMOUS BRAKING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE

A control system for a subject vehicle includes an autonomous braking system, a forward monitoring sensor and a rearward monitoring sensor. The controller monitors a first speed of a first vehicle travelling in front of the subject vehicle and a second speed of a second vehicle travelling to the rear of the subject vehicle. A first gap-closing time is determined based upon the speed of the subject vehicle and the first speed of the first vehicle. A second gap-closing time is determined based upon the speed of the subject vehicle and the second speed of the second vehicle. The controller controls the speed of the subject vehicle based upon the first gap-closing time and the second gap-closing time when one of the first gap-closing time or the second gap-closing time is less than a first threshold time.

VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD AND VEHICLE, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM AND CHIP
20230415570 · 2023-12-28 · ·

A vehicle control method, vehicle and non-transitory computer readable storage medium that enables a current transmission ratio of a vehicle to be decreased prior to a driver turning a steering wheel so that a larger steering angle of a wheel can be obtained when the driver turns the steering wheel at a smaller angle in emergency driving situations.

Inter-vehicle distance control device

An inter-vehicle distance control device that achieves inter-vehicle distance control satisfying the driver includes a preceding vehicle velocity computation part that computes a preceding vehicle velocity on the basis of a host vehicle velocity and a relative velocity of the preceding vehicle, a target inter-vehicle setting art that sets a target inter-vehicle distance from the preceding vehicle on the basis of the preceding vehicle velocity, a target track generator that generates a target track and a target track differential, the target track defining a time history lasting until the initial value of the inter-vehicle distance reaches the target inter-vehicle distance, and a feedback controller that computes a feedback acceleration command by multiplying a deviation of the inter-vehicle distance from the target track and a deviation of the relative velocity from the target track differential value by a gain. The feedback acceleration command is output as an acceleration command.

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION OF VEHICLE

An apparatus for controlling a transmission of a vehicle includes: a determination device that decides whether to perform a forward vehicle-based deceleration tracking control, based on information of the vehicle and a forward vehicle, when the vehicle starts to coast; a calculation device that calculates a target velocity and a target distance based on a position and a velocity of the forward vehicle, when the forward vehicle-based deceleration tracking control is decided to be performed; a gear position decision device that constructs deceleration profiles for respective gears and decides a final gear based on the target velocity and the target distance calculated; and a controller that controls the transmission based on the final gear.

Image processing system for acquiring an image picked up by a camera provided in a vehicle an image processing method executed by a computer and a non-transitory storage medium storing an image processing program executed by a computer
10868975 · 2020-12-15 · ·

An image processing system includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires an image picked up by a camera, the camera being provided in a vehicle; and a quality changing unit that performs a quality changing process of decreasing a quality of the image to equal to or lower than a predetermined standard, based on at least one of a vehicle position at a time when the image is picked up, a vehicle position at a time when the image is output to an external device or a display device, and requestor information that indicates a requestor of an output request of the image.

COLLISION AVOIDANCE DEVICE, VEHICLE HAVING THE SAME AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE VEHICLE
20200369264 · 2020-11-26 ·

In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a vehicle controls a vehicle includes: acquiring a direction and a distance value of the obstacle as position information of the obstacle based on radar data received through at least one of a plurality of reception channels corresponding to the angular resolution in the lateral direction of an obstacle detector, identifies a collision point that may collide with the obstacle based on the acquired position information of the obstacle, controls at least one of steering and braking based on the position information of the identified collision point; and when controlling the steering, acquires a collision avoidance margin distance value corresponding to the position information of the identified collision point, predicts the collision position based on the position information of the obstacle and the information detected by the velocity detector, acquires a distance value between the predicted collision position and the current position, acquires a movement distance value in the lateral direction based on the acquired distance value and a preset turning radius of the vehicle, acquires a steering angle based on the acquired movement distance value in the lateral direction and the acquired collision avoidance margin distance value and controls steering based on the acquired steering angle.

Vehicle speed control device

A vehicle speed control device includes: a parallel running vehicle detection sensor; and an electronic control unit configured to perform (i) cruise control, (ii) parallel running vehicle detection processing, (iii) blind zone avoidance control for controlling the speed of the vehicle such that the vehicle is moved to a position behind a blind zone of the parallel running vehicle when the parallel running vehicle is detected, (iv) blind zone getting-out determination processing for determining whether the vehicle can move to a position ahead of the blind zone by traveling according to the cruise condition, and (v) avoidance cancellation processing for prioritizing the control of the speed by the cruise control over the control of the speed by the blind zone avoidance control when it is determined by the blind zone getting-out determination processing that the vehicle can move to the position ahead of the blind zone.

Modulated infrared lighting

A computing device in a vehicle can emit a sequence of light pulses having a first speed, then receive a signal from another vehicle. Following this, the computing device can emit a message as a sequence of light pulses having a second speed based on the signal received from the vehicle, wherein the first speed is different from the second speed.

VISUAL OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE METHOD FOR ROBOT MOWER, ROBOT, CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
20200229344 · 2020-07-23 ·

The present application discloses a visual obstacle avoidance method for a robot mower, which includes the following steps: acquiring self motion parameters of the robot mower; acquiring image information in front of the robot mower; collecting motion characteristic parameters of a obstacle in the image information according to the acquired image information; acquiring distance characteristic parameters between the robot mower and the obstacle. According to the motion characteristic parameters, the self motion parameters and the distance characteristic parameters, whether the robot mower needs to avoid is determined, and if the robot mower does not need to avoid the obstacle, the original driving path is executed. The present application also discloses a robot mower and a readable storage medium.

DEVICE FOR SETTING TARGET VEHICLE, SYSTEM FOR SETTING TARGET VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR SETTING TARGET VEHICLE

A device for setting a target vehicle that sets a target vehicle to be subjected to driving assistance control of a host vehicle includes: a detection signal acquisition device capable of acquiring a first detection signal representing an object by an image, and a second detection signal representing the object by a reflection point; and setting control unit, which determines whether to set a forward object as a target vehicle, wherein if a movement history is not associated with the forward object, and a combination history is associated with the forward object, then as a selection threshold of a first determination parameter for determining whether to set the forward object as the target vehicle, a selection threshold is used such that the forward object is less likely to be selected as the target vehicle than with the selection threshold which would be used if a movement history is associated with the forward object.