A system for controlling at least partially autonomous operation of a motor-vehicle, including: a sensor-device with which environment-data characterizing the environment of the motor vehicle is generated; an electronic-main-control-unit, which receives the environment-data from the sensor-device, and, depending on the data, inputs adjusting-commands into at least one device/actuator, which device/actuator is used in the at least partially autonomous operation of the motor-vehicle; a first electronic-backup-control-unit, which, for a fault/failure of the electronic-main-control-unit, receives the data from the sensor-device, and, depending on the data, inputs adjusting-commands into the at least one device/actuator, which device/actuator is used in the at least partially autonomous operation of the motor-vehicle; and a second electronic-backup-control-unit, which, for a fault/failure of the electronic-main-control-unit and the first electronic-backup-control-unit, receives the data from the sensor-device, and, depending on the data, inputs adjusting-commands into the at least one device/actuator, which device/actuator is used in the operation of the motor-vehicle.

A steer-by-wire steering system, including: a two-system reaction force applying device including two reaction force controllers and configured to obtain operation information and apply an operation reaction force; a two-system steering device including two steering controllers and configured to steer a wheel; an operation information obtaining device; an auxiliary steering device capable of changing a direction of a vehicle; two dedicated communication lines one of which information-transmittably and information-receivably connects one of the two reaction force controllers and one of the two steering controllers to each other, and the other of which information-transmittably and information-receivably connects the other of the two reaction force controllers and the other of the two steering controllers to each other; and a first communication bus to which the operation information obtaining device is at least information-transmittably connected and to which the two steering controllers and the auxiliary steering device are at least information-receivably connected.

A vehicle control apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes an electric motor, a brake mechanism, and a control system. The control system increases a friction braking force of the brake mechanism while reducing a regenerative braking force of the electric motor, in deceleration traveling performed in a low vehicle speed range where a vehicle speed of the vehicle is less than a first threshold in a state in which an accelerator operation and a brake operation performed by a driver who drives the vehicle are canceled. The control system corrects correlation data between a control instruction value indicated to the brake mechanism and the friction braking force generated by the control instruction value, by using, as a trigger, a situation in which a change rate of a vehicle acceleration of the vehicle exceeds a second threshold in the deceleration traveling in the low vehicle speed range.

A vehicle control device is mounted on a vehicle including a driving actuator configured to apply a driving force and a braking actuator configured to apply a braking force. The vehicle control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to correct, when a predetermined condition including at least that the vehicle is decelerating is satisfied, the required driving force and the required braking force so as to increase the required driving force and the required braking force such that a sum of a magnitude of the required driving force and a magnitude of the required braking force is equal to or larger than a magnitude of the component of the gravity acting on the vehicle in the movement direction of the vehicle.

A vehicle control system includes: a vehicle state detecting device configured to obtain vehicle state information that includes a steering angle of a front wheel; a pitch moment computation unit configured to compute an applied pitch moment to be applied to a vehicle based on the vehicle state information; a deceleration force computation unit configured to compute an applied deceleration force to be generated in the vehicle based on the applied pitch moment; and a deceleration force distribution unit configured to compute a brake device deceleration force to be generated by a brake device and a power plant deceleration force to be generated by a power plant based on the applied deceleration force and state information of the brake device and the power plant.

Methods and systems are provided for controlling yaw of a vehicle while maintaining vehicle speed. In one example, equal and opposite vectoring torques are applied to first and second wheels along with a propulsion torque so that a vehicle yaw moment may be induced without accelerating or decelerating the vehicle.

An emergency maneuver control system includes a path planning control device, which is designed to determine an emergency maneuver trajectory in a highly automated or autonomous operating mode of the vehicle; a longitudinal guidance actuator control device which is coupled to the path planning control device and is designed to provide longitudinal guidance control commands derived from the emergency maneuver trajectory and, in the event of an emergency maneuver situation, to cause the at least one longitudinal guidance actuator to execute the longitudinal guidance control commands; and a transverse guidance actuator control device which is coupled to the path planning control device and is designed to provide transverse guidance control commands derived from the emergency maneuver trajectory and, in the event of an emergency maneuver situation, to cause the at least one transverse guidance actuator to execute the transverse guidance control commands.

A vehicle braking control method is provided. When a driver intends to drive a vehicle after the delivery of the vehicle or a factory mechanic intends to test the vehicle before the delivery of the vehicle after the engine is turned on even when a warning light is turned on due to the insufficiency of the brake fluid, a warning signal indicating that a level sensor is malfunctioning is generated using an instrument cluster, or driving torque of the engine is limited while a warning phrase indicating the insufficiency of the brake fluid is displayed using the cluster. Therefore, the vehicle may travel at a minimum speed. Thus, the driver is enabled to drive the vehicle to a safe place. Accordingly, a secondary accident is prevented and a subsequent maintenance operation is easily performed.

In a vehicle control device, a vehicle control method, and a vehicle control system according to the present invention, in control of a motion of a vehicle which is based on a signal relating to a target trajectory and a signal relating to a traveling state, a target traveling state of the vehicle after a predetermined time period corresponding to a delay element in the control of the motion of the vehicle is predicted, and a command for achieving the predicted target traveling state is output to an actuator configured to control the motion of the vehicle, thereby suppressing occurrence of a deviation of a traveling trajectory from the target trajectory and occurrence of an unstable behavior, for example, meandering, due to the delay element in a vehicle motion control system which is based on the target trajectory.

Methods and systems are provided for heat sanitizing a vehicle. In one example, a method may include, responsive to receiving a request for sanitization of a vehicle interior, activating an ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) system and operating a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system to heat the vehicle interior above an upper threshold temperature for a threshold duration. In this way, the HVAC system may be advantageously used to expose the vehicle interior to temperatures that kill or inactive microbes while the UVGI system may supplement the heat sanitizing.