An electronic control unit for redundancy of a motor driven power steering for a vehicle includes: a first motor control circuit unit having a circuit structure to control an operation of a motor; a second motor control circuit unit having a circuit structure to control the operation of the motor, and disposed in parallel to the first motor control circuit unit along an x-direction; and a redundancy control unit to control the second motor control circuit unit to perform a motor control, when an abnormality occurs in the first motor control circuit unit.

A vehicle and a control method thereof capable of easily detecting a failure of a power circuit of a vehicle and safely controlling the vehicle depending on a failure detection result, includes dividing power loads of a vehicle into a plurality of zones and obtaining a failure determination criterion value of each of the zones, monitoring a voltage drop in each of the zones, determining whether a power circuit in each of the zones fails based on a difference between the voltage drop in each of the zones and the failure determination criterion value, and performing preset safe driving control of the vehicle depending on a zone determined as the failure among the plurality of zones.

The present invention relates to an electronic control system for a motor vehicle, including a control device, an actuator, and at least one sensor. The control system according to the invention is characterized in that it has a sensor board for reading the data detected by the sensor, wherein the sensor board has a memory for storing actuator-specific data and an interface between the sensor board and the control device for transferring the data stored in the sensor board to the control device. The present invention also relates to a method for operating this type of control system.

A controller (200) for controlling a vehicle system (210), the controller comprising: an input (206) for receiving a configuration signal specifying an action to be carried out by a vehicle system in response to a trigger condition, the trigger condition being associated with a start condition; a memory module (204) arranged to store data indicative of the specified action and trigger condition, the memory module being further arranged to store data indicative of a default action to be carried out by the vehicle system in response to a default action trigger condition; a processor (202) arranged, upon the start condition being met to generate a control signal for controlling the vehicle system in accordance with the stored action; an output (208) arranged to output the control signal; wherein the processor is arranged to determine when, subsequent to the start condition being met, a default action trigger condition is met and to generate a further control signal for controlling the vehicle system in accordance with the stored default action.

A system for implementing strobing of existing vehicle hazard lights including an interface to a vehicle wiring harness configured to receive input to an existing vehicle flasher module, and a strobing circuit that responds to an activation signal from the vehicle wiring harness that is indicative of a hazard flasher deployment event by producing an electrical output through the interface to the vehicle wiring harness that causes a strobing of existing vehicle hazard lamps.

Provided is a vehicle-mounted relay device that can suppress failures in reading/writing of data due to electric power shortage. The vehicle-mounted relay device determines whether or not reading/writing of data is possible based on the required amount of stored power in the electric power storage device and the remaining amount of stored power in the electric power storage device needed to read/write the data. If the remaining amount of stored power is equal to or greater than the required amount of stored power, there is no risk that the remaining amount of stored power in the electric power storage device may run short before the reading/writing of the data ends. Accordingly, if it is determined that reading/writing of the data is possible, the vehicle-mounted relay device causes an ECU, which is a vehicle-mounted control device, to start reading/writing the data.

A vehicle control device performs driving mode switching processing from an automated driving mode to a manual driving mode according to the intention of a vehicle occupant of a vehicle. A vehicle control device includes: a switching controller that is configured to switch a driving mode of a vehicle from an automated driving mode to a manual driving mode based on a predetermined manipulated variable of a steering wheel; and a steering reaction force setting unit that is configured to set, according to how a vehicle occupant grips the steering wheel, a steering reaction force applied when the vehicle occupant steers the steering wheel in the automated driving mode.

A vehicle is electrically connected to one or more accessories. The vehicle includes at least one controller that may be configured to identify the accessory based on accessory identification information. The controller may also be configured to provide one or more commands to control an operation of the accessory.

According to various embodiments, there is provided an interface circuit for connecting to an electronic control unit (ECU). The interface circuit may include a first connection circuit, a second connection circuit, and a switching circuit. The first connection circuit may be configured to connect to an external device. The second connection circuit may be configured to provide an input signal to an ECU. The input signal may be indicative of a voltage level at the first connection circuit. The switching circuit may be connectable to a first voltage and a second voltage. The switching circuit may be configured to receive a control signal from the ECU, and may be further configured to selectively connect the first connection circuit to one of the first voltage and the second voltage, based on the received control signal.

A multi-part sealing system is provided for a housing of a motor vehicle control unit. The housing includes a first housing part and at least one additional housing part, with at least one electronic component in the interior of the housing and at least one conducting structure which leads out of the interior of the housing and connects an electronic component in the interior of the housing to components outside the housing in an electrically conductive manner. At least one housing part has at least one device for accommodating at least one part of the multi-part sealing system. A first part of the sealing system is suitable for preventing liquid harmful or noxious substances from penetrating into the interior of the housing and additional parts of the sealing system are suitable for preventing gaseous harmful or noxious substances from penetrating into the interior of the housing.