Example methods and systems for controlling speeds of a vehicle may generally determine a target vehicle acceleration using an autonomy control module of the vehicle. The target vehicle acceleration may be determined based upon at least one of a target vehicle following distance, a target vehicle following speed, or a target vehicle speed. The determined vehicle acceleration may be mapped to a level of vehicle torque using a vehicle dynamics module of the vehicle. Additionally, the level of vehicle torque may be applied to one or more wheels of the vehicle.

Computer-implemented methods, systems and computer program products for facilitating operationally customized access to smart vehicles are provided. Aspects include receiving request to access a smart vehicle. Aspects also include receiving vehicle operation constraints associated with the smart vehicle using a processor. Aspects also include generating a vehicle policy based at least in part on the request to access the smart vehicle and the vehicle operation constraints using the processor. The vehicle policy includes rules for operation of the smart vehicle. Aspects also include transmitting the vehicle policy to the smart vehicle. Aspects also include moderating the operation of the smart vehicle based on at least in part the vehicle policy.

Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle. In one implementation, the autonomous vehicle is navigated towards a flow of traffic with a first gap between first and second vehicles and a second gap following the second vehicle. A motion plan for directing the autonomous vehicle into the flow of traffic at an interaction zone is generated based on whether an ability of the autonomous vehicle to enter the interaction zone at the second gap exceeds a confidence threshold. The autonomous vehicle is autonomously navigated into the flow of traffic at the first gap when the confidence threshold is exceeded. The motion plan forgoes navigation of the autonomous vehicle into the flow of traffic at the first and second gaps when the ability of the autonomous vehicle to enter the interaction zone at the second gap does not exceed the confidence threshold.

Disclosed are an apparatus for controlling a stop of a vehicle and a method thereof. In order to prevent a collision accident occurring by a second rear vehicle in an emergency stop of the vehicle in advance, the apparatus includes a vehicle sensor that detects various types of information on a target vehicle, a rear sensor that detects a first rear vehicle and a second rear vehicle driving behind the target vehicle, and a controller that is electrically connected to the vehicle sensor and the rear sensor to control an emergency stop of the target vehicle in consideration of a state of a field of view of the second rear vehicle with respect to the target vehicle when the target vehicle is stopped in emergency.

The present invention relates to the field of vehicles, in particular to a vehicle slip regulation method and apparatus, an electronic device and a medium. The vehicle slip regulation method comprises the following steps: determining a pavement type of a vehicle driving pavement in response to a vehicle acceleration slip regulation event; determining an overall target acceleration of a vehicle according to the determined pavement type, the speed of a non-driving wheel and the slip time of a driving wheel; and performing vehicle slip regulation according to the overall target acceleration. The method does not need to determine wheel adhesion coefficient of a vehicle according to coefficients such as vehicle weight and road slope, can perform slip regulation by calculating overall target accelerations under different pavements, and has strong practicability and robustness and good acceleration slip regulation effect.

A backup control unit for controlling motion of a heavy-duty vehicle during a minimum risk maneuver, where the backup control unit is arranged to receive data indicative of a planned sequence of vehicle control commands from a main vehicle control unit. The backup control unit comprises a first vehicle model configured to map the planned sequence of vehicle control commands into a desired vehicle behavior and is arranged to obtain a measured vehicle behavior from one or more vehicle sensors. Also, the back-up control unit is arranged to determine an adjusted sequence of vehicle control commands based on the planned sequence of vehicle control commands and on a deviation between the desired vehicle behavior and the measured vehicle behavior, and to transmit the adjusted sequence of vehicle control commands to a motion support device, MSD, control unit of the vehicle.

A vehicle motion controller includes a feedback controlling unit that executes feedback control in which a difference between a target acceleration corresponding to a request value from a driver assistance device and an actual acceleration of a vehicle is an input, thereby calculating a control amount used to reduce the difference, a request outputting unit that calculates a request longitudinal force based on the control amount, the request longitudinal force controlling an actuator, and an obtaining unit that obtains, as availability, a range of a longitudinal force capable of being generated by the actuator, the availability being a controllable range of the longitudinal force. The feedback controlling unit prohibits the control amount from decreasing when the request longitudinal force is less than a minimum value in the availability.

A vehicle controller sets an upper limit request value related to an upper limit of a longitudinal acceleration of a vehicle, a lower limit request value related to a lower limit of the longitudinal acceleration, and an acceleration request value related to the longitudinal acceleration that corresponds to an amount of the operation of the vehicle. The vehicle controller sets a first arbitration request value to a greater one of the lower limit request value and the acceleration request value. The vehicle controller sets a second arbitration request value to a smaller one of the first arbitration request value and the upper limit request value. The vehicle controller sets, to a value that corresponds to the second arbitration request value, a command value sent to an actuator that operates to adjust the traveling speed.

A vehicle motion controller includes a feedback controlling unit that executes feedback control in which a difference between a target acceleration corresponding to a request value and an actual acceleration of a vehicle is an input, thereby calculating a control amount used to reduce the difference, a request outputting unit that calculates a request longitudinal force based on the control amount and outputs the request longitudinal force to the driving and braking devices, the request longitudinal force controlling the driving and braking devices, and a determining unit that, in a case where a driver of the vehicle is operating a braking operation member, obtains a braking command value and determines that operation interference by the driver has occurred when the braking command value is less than the request value. The feedback controlling unit prohibits the control amount from increasing in a case where the operation interference has occurred.

A proactive pedal algorithm is used to modify an accelerator pedal map to ensure the deceleration when the accelerator pedal is released matches driver expectation. Modifying the accelerator pedal map provides the driver of a vehicle the sensation that the vehicle resists moving when travelling in dense scenes with potentially high deceleration requirements and coasts easily in scenes with low deceleration requirements. The accelerator pedal map is modified based on a scene determination to classify other remote vehicles as in-lane, neighbor-lane, or on-coming.