A method of curve speed adjustment for a road vehicle includes obtaining data on: current ego velocity; distance and curvature of an upcoming road segment, represented by a set of control points to be negotiated; road property of a road comprising the road segment; environmental properties; and driver properties. The obtained data is continuously streamed to a data processing arrangement arranged to perform a translation to target velocities for the respective control points and, for each respective control point, a translation from target velocity for that control point and distance to that control point and obtained current ego velocity, to a target acceleration to reach that control point at its target velocity. The resulting target accelerations are continuously streamed to a control unit of the road vehicle to adjust the road vehicle acceleration to reach each respective control point at its target velocity.

The concepts described herein relate to a calculation of desired future longitudinal horizons related to torque or acceleration, and desired future lateral horizons related to yaw rate and lateral velocity, and their use in response to driver-selectable modes. In the longitudinal direction, driver inputs of pedal and brake position as well as drivability metrics are used to calculate the desired future torque trajectory. In the lateral direction, the front and rear steering angles may be used with a bicycle model to derive the trajectories. The trajectories are used in a vehicle motion controller that uses weighting to tradeoff competing requests and deliver performance that is consistent with a selected driver mode, such as a tour mode, a sport mode, an off-road mode, a trailering mode, etc.

A vehicle control apparatus includes a detection unit detecting a traveling position and a traveling speed of a subject vehicle and a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform acquiring a scheduled switching information of a traffic light located in the traveling direction of the subject vehicle, determining whether to perform a stop operation of stopping the subject vehicle at the road stop line based on the scheduled switching information, the traveling position and the traveling speed, and when it is determined to perform the stop operation, decelerating the subject vehicle at a deceleration equal to or less than a predetermined deceleration until the display mode is switched from the green color mode to the red color and decelerates the subject vehicle so that the subject vehicle stops at the stop line after the display mode is switched to the red color.

A control command is provided to a vehicle control module that identifies one or more vehicle actions to be performed by the vehicle control module to control a position of an autonomous vehicle (AV) with respect to an external environment. Whether one or more conditions pertaining to the position of the AV with respect to the external environment are satisfied is determined. Responsive to determining that the one or more conditions pertaining to the position of the AV with respect to the external environment are satisfied, a first instruction is provide to the vehicle control module that permits the vehicle control module to deviate from the one or more vehicle actions identified in the control command and to perform an energy saving action with respect to the AV.

The invention relates to a method for trajectory planning of a driver assistance system, particularly an assistance system for longitudinal and/or transverse control, in which a trajectory (T1, T3-T7) having a total duration (t.sub.e) which can be set is determined and the trajectory (T3, T5, T7) is divided into segments, wherein each segment has a variable segment duration (Δt.sub.1, Δt.sub.2, Δt.sub.3) and the total of the segment durations (Δt.sub.1, Δt.sub.2, Δt.sub.3) corresponds to the set total duration (t.sub.e) of the trajectory (T3, T5, T7).

The invention provides a method for controlling a plurality of vehicles which are repeating a cycle of driving along a route, which has at least one single vehicle area (SLTA1, . . . , SLTAm, SP, TP), characterized by—determining speed profiles for the vehicles,—creating a set of different activation times (t11, t21, tr11, tr21) for the vehicles, from an activation position (SP, TP) of the cycle,—simulating vehicle movements through the cycle, with the speed profiles, and the created set of activation times (t11, t21, tr11, tr21),—repeating, a plurality of times, the steps of creating a set of activation times, and simulating vehicle movements, wherein the created set of activation times are different from one repetition to another,—selecting, for controlling the vehicles, from the sets of activation times created by the repetition of the step of creating a set of activation times, a set of activation times (t12, t22, tr12, tr22) for which the simulation shows that there is a minimum time overlap (to21) of vehicles at any of the at least one single vehicle area, and—controlling the vehicles according to the speed profiles and the selected set of activation times.

A power distribution control system of a vehicle includes a driving information provider for collecting and providing information required for power distribution control of an engine and a motor in the vehicle; a communication unit for transmitting the information provided by the driving information provider from the vehicle; a cloud server outside the vehicle for selecting and transmitting optimal power distribution control logic data corresponding to a driving situation of the vehicle based on the information provided through the communication unit from the vehicle; and a vehicle controller for performing power distribution control of the engine and the motor based on real-time driving state variable information of the vehicle using the optimal power distribution control logic data received through the communication unit by the vehicle from the cloud server.

A vehicle travel control system for a vehicle may include: a launch profile generator to generate a target torque profile or a target speed profile based on monitored driving information of a host vehicle and a target vehicle; and a controller to control a speed or an acceleration of the host vehicle based on the generated profile. In particular, the launch profile generator analyzes an intention of a driver of the host vehicle when the driver intervenes at least one of the speed, acceleration or deceleration of the host vehicle being controlled, and the launch profile generator further revises the target torque profile or the target speed profile when the analyzed intention represents preferences of the driver such that the controller controls the host vehicle based on the revised profile.

A method of operating a vehicle includes generating initial state of charge and vehicle velocity profiles for a travel route, for each initial velocity setpoint defining the vehicle velocity profile, generating a plurality of updated state of charge setpoints, for each of the initial velocity setpoints, selecting one of the updated state of charge setpoints to define an updated state of charge profile, for each of the updated state of charge setpoints that defines the updated state of charge profile, generating a plurality of updated velocity setpoints, for each of the updated state of charge setpoints that defines the updated state of charge profile, selecting one of the updated velocity setpoints to define an updated velocity profile, and controlling operation of an electric machine and engine according to the updated state of charge profile and updated velocity profile over the travel route.

An automotive electronic driving speed control system configured to control the driving speed of the motor-vehicle along a recurring path travelled by the motor-vehicle in assisted- or autonomous-driving based on one or more driver-specific driving speed profiles of the motor-vehicle learnt during one or more previous travels of the same path along which the motor-vehicle is manually driven by the specific driver.