An automotive electronic lateral dynamics control system of an autonomous motor vehicle, comprising a lateral driving path planner designed to plan a lateral driving path of the autonomous motor vehicle and defined by a reference curvature of the autonomous motor vehicle; an automotive electronic driving stability control system designed to control an automotive braking system to apply to the autonomous motor vehicle a yaw torque to hinder a driving instability condition of the autonomous motor vehicle; and an automotive electronic steering control system designed to control an automotive steering system to apply to the autonomous motor vehicle a steering angle or torque to cause the autonomous motor vehicle to follow the lateral driving path planned by the lateral driving path planner. The automotive electronic lateral dynamics control system is designed to cause an intervention of the automotive electronic steering control system to take account of an intervention of the automotive electronic driving stability control system.

An embodiment of the present invention provides higher ride comfort to a driver in control of steering and suspension. An ECU (600) includes: a steering control section (610) which controls a magnitude of an assist torque or a reaction torque; and a suspension control section (650) which controls a damping force of a suspension. The steering control section (610) refers to a state of a vehicle which state is predicted by the suspension control section (650), and the suspension control section (650) refers to a steering torque.

A driving assistance device includes a storage medium configured to store computer-readable instructions, and a processor that is connected to the storage medium, in which the processor executes the computer-readable instructions to determine to prompt a driver of a mobile object to avoid contact with an object detected by an object detection device whose detection range is at least on a traveling direction side of the mobile object according to steering, and a steering direction for avoiding contact with the object, and when it is determined to prompt the driver of the mobile object to avoid contact with the object according to steering, cause an actuator capable of outputting force to a steering operator to execute outputting, first, a force to reach a first target force in the same direction as the steering direction in a first period to maintain the state, and causing, then, a force output in a second period longer than the first period to reach zero.

A blind spot guidance system for a vehicle includes a perception system, an electric motor, and one or more controllers. The one or more controllers execute instructions to monitor a trajectory of the vehicle to determine when a lane change maneuver to manipulate the vehicle from a current lane of travel to an adjacent lane of travel is being initiated. In response to determining the lane change maneuver is being initiated, the one or more controllers monitor the perception system for a moving obstacle located in a blind spot of the vehicle. In response to determining the moving obstacle is located in the blind spot of the vehicle, the one or more controllers instruct the electric motor to generate an assist torque provided to a hand wheel, wherein the assist torque guides the vehicle back into the current lane of travel.

A driving control system for a vehicle is provided. The vehicle includes a steering device, a steering operation amount sensor that detects a steering operation amount of the driver, and an abnormality determining device configured to determine whether the driver is in an abnormal state. The driving control system includes: an actuator configured to adjust a turning state quantity; and an electronic control unit configured to calculate a target turning state quantity of the vehicle based on the steering operation amount and control the turning state quantity adjusting device. The electronic control unit is configured to correct the target turning state quantity such that a magnitude of the target turning state quantity does not exceed a predetermined allowable range and to control the actuator based on the corrected target turning state quantity when the driver is in the abnormal state.

A power steering device for an axle assembly provided with a limited-slip differential designed to transmit a drive torque to a first and second wheel and to automatically activate, in the event of a loss of synchronism and/or of grip of one of the first and second wheels, an operating mode referred to as lockup mode in which differential transfers most of the driving torque to the slower of the first and second wheels, the power steering also including a steering mechanism and a power steering motor controlled by a control module, steering control module containing compensation laws which allow the power steering motor to compensate for certain effects, such as alternating load backup or freezing, induced in the steering mechanism by activation of the differential lockup mode, so as to give the driver a feel close to that of an axle assembly that does not have a lockup mode.

A collision avoidance support device comprises: target detection unit for detecting an target existing in front of a vehicle travelling on a road; target type determination unit for detecting which of a moving object and a stationary object the target detected by the target detection unit is; obstacle determination unit for determining whether or not the target detected by the target detection unit is an obstacle which is likely to collide with the vehicle; and traveling direction automatic control unit. The traveling direction automatic control unit is configured to calculate the selected avoidance path so that the distance margin of when the obstacle determination unit determines that the obstacle is the moving object is larger than the distance margin of when the obstacle determination unit determines that the obstacle is the stationary object.

An embodiment driving assistance system for a vehicle includes a driving information provision unit configured to acquire and provide driving information of a traveling vehicle, a control unit configured to generate and output a control signal for driving assistance when it is determined the vehicle travels on a rough road based on the driving information of the vehicle provided by the driving information provision unit and it is determined that the vehicle is currently in a rough road traveling state, and a steering actuator configured to generate and apply a steering assistance force according to a control value of the control signal for the driving assistance output by the control unit to a steering wheel.

An exemplary method for detecting a rough road includes the steps of providing a vehicle sensor, the vehicle sensor configured to measure a steering torque of a vehicle, receiving a steering torque data signal from the vehicle sensor, generating a road condition data signal from the steering torque data signal, evaluating the road condition data signal over a specified time interval, comparing the road condition data signal with one or more thresholds, and determining whether rough road conditions exist based on the comparison of the road condition data signal with the one or more thresholds over the specified time interval.

Motorcycles can become unstable when operating at high speeds and at high cornering levels. For example, they can exhibit an oscillation at the rear wheel commonly known as weave. A system and method is provided which utilizes a high-fidelity computer simulation model of a 2- or 3-wheel motorcycle to predict operating states such as yaw rate, lateral acceleration and roll angle for a stable motorcycle at a given speed and steer angle. The operating state of a physical motorcycle can be measured and compared to that of the model at every instant in time to determine if the operating state of the physical motorcycle differs from that of the simulation model in such a way as to indicate loss of stability. The nature of that difference can then be used to intervene in the operation of the motorcycle independent of driver actions by application of brakes, modulating the engine torque or applying torques to urge the steering system in a corrective direction. Thus by comparing the physical response of the motorcycle to that of the computer model in an on-board controller these interventions can be applied at a time and intensity to stabilize the motorcycle and prevent a loss of control.