A travel control device for a vehicle, includes: a lane information acquisition unit configured to acquire lane information; a steering control unit configured to control steering of the vehicle by executing lane travel control to make the vehicle travel along the lane; and a vehicle speed control unit configured to control a vehicle speed by executing constant speed travel control in which the vehicle is made to travel at a set vehicle speed and/or adaptive cruise control in which the vehicle is made to travel at a speed equal to or lower than the set vehicle speed so as to follow a preceding vehicle. The vehicle speed control unit is configured to control the vehicle speed during a turn of the vehicle by setting a vehicle speed upper limit value, which is set to different values depending on whether the lane travel control is being executed.

A method for adapting the comfort of a vehicle for a vehicle user. The vehicle has an HMI system with which the user and vehicle interact. A suspension system adapts a position of the user to a roadway. A position planning device plans and regulates movement of the vehicle. A regulating device, which has a memory, is connected to the HMI and a suspension system and the position planning device. According to the method, a target comfort zone for the user is stored in the regulating device memory. A current comfort zone of the user is continuously determined, via the HMI system, and continuously compared with the target comfort zone. Based on comparison results, the regulating device controls the suspension system, the position of the user being adapted to the roadway such that the current comfort zone continues approaching the target comfort zone until the target comfort zone is reached.

Controlling the speed of a motor vehicle with an adaptive cruise control system in a curve can include dynamically adjusting the speed of the motor vehicle depending on the planned exit from the roundabout and the current position of the motor vehicle.

A parking control apparatus includes an input device configured to acquire an operation command acquired from inside or outside of a vehicle and a control device configured to control the vehicle in accordance with the operation command. The control device is configured to make a determination whether or not an occupant is present inside a vehicle interior of the vehicle and control the vehicle to park in accordance with a result of the determination.

A method for adapting a predefined reference line for a transportation vehicle, a device, and a transportation vehicle. A predefined reference line is received by a control unit. A distance value of a maximum lateral distance from the predefined reference line is received by the control unit from an input device and a permissible area is specified that extends along the reference line and the lateral boundary of which is the maximum distance from the reference line that is specified by the distance value. A driving path optimized for a minimum driving time is calculated by a specified first mathematical optimization method starting from the current transportation vehicle position. The first mathematical optimization method has at least one boundary condition that requires a course of the driving path within the permissible area. The distance value is specified by a user input by the input device.

A trajectory planning method for lane changing of a vehicle includes steps of: calculating a current position of a reference point of the vehicle on a preliminary lane change trajectory that is received from an LCA system of the vehicle at a current time point; based on kinematics data received from an IMU of the vehicle, calculating longitudinal and lateral displacements of the reference point moving during a unit of time from the current time point to a next time point, and a yaw angle of the vehicle at the next time point; and obtaining a calibrated lane change trajectory based on the preliminary lane change trajectory, the current position, the longitudinal and lateral displacements, and the yaw angle.

A control apparatus for an electric vehicle includes a requested torque calculator, a command torque calculator, and a driving controller. The requested torque calculator is configured to calculate requested torque. The command torque calculator includes a change rate adjuster configured to adjust respective upper limit change rates of left command torque and right command torque that follow the requested torque. The change rate adjuster is configured to, on the basis of a predetermined operation of turning back a steering angle performed on a steering unit of the electric vehicle, lower the upper limit change rate of a driving wheel, serving as an inner wheel among left and right driving wheels of the electric vehicle before turning back the steering angle, than the upper limit change rate of the driving wheel, serving as an outer wheel among the left and the right driving wheels before turning back the steering angle.

A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for providing merging assistance for a vehicle. The method includes capturing a vehicle speed of the vehicle travelling in a lane of roadway. The method also includes receiving adjacent vehicle data relating to an adjacent vehicle in an adjacent lane. The method further includes receiving adjacent lane data relating to a speed of one or more vehicles in the adjacent lane. The method still further includes generating merger information for the vehicle based on the vehicle speed, the adjacent vehicle data, and the adjacent lane data. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.

The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for calculating a trajectory of a mobile platform. The method calculates an exact or approximate solution of an optimization problem, which minimizes the travel time from a predetermined starting state to a predetermined end state, wherein the jerk of the mobile platform is restricted in absolute value to a maximum jerk and wherein the acceleration of the mobile platform is restricted, wherein the limit of the acceleration can be dependent on the velocity of the mobile platform.

A control system for a motor vehicle for coordinating and carrying out customer vehicle functions and to a method for operating such a control system. The control system may include a central vehicle regulator for actuating vehicle functions and multiple customer vehicle functions which are designed to transmit activation request relating to the vehicle functions and corresponding control commands for the respective customer functions to the analysis unit of the vehicle regulator. When a currently inactive customer vehicle function transmits an activation request, the analysis unit may determine which specified activation state is assigned to said customer vehicle function according to a specified selection routine. In response thereto, the assigned activation states are transmitted to actuate the vehicle functions of the motor vehicle according to the respective control commands of the corresponding customer vehicle functions.