An emergency in-lane steering assist system for use during a braking event comprises an object sensor for detecting the presence of an object in front of a motor vehicle and providing data from which the distance from the object to the motor vehicle is determined and a velocity sensor providing data from which the forward velocity of the motor vehicle is determined. A controller in communication with the object sensor and the velocity sensor calculates a Time to Contact (TTC) with the detected object and a steering system is responsive at least in part to operation by the controller. If the calculated TTC is less than a predetermined TTC, the controller provides a lateral steering input during the braking event to reduce the linear distance traveled by the motor vehicle relative to a predetermined path in the lane.

A method can be used to control a steer-by-wire steering system in an emergency steering mode. The method comprises checking a steering system for the presence of a fault state and upon detection of a fault implementing the emergency steering mode, which involves determining a setpoint position of a steering tie rod using a setpoint wheel steering angle, determining a front wheel to be braked and a brake pressure to attain the setpoint position with a control unit, transmitting the front wheel to be braked and the brake pressure to a brake system, braking the front wheel to be braked, and increasing a torque provided by a wheel drive to compensate for a loss of speed of the motor vehicle caused by the braking of the front wheel to be braked.

The present invention provides a sensing apparatus for a vehicle, the apparatus including: a sensing unit that is configured to sense at least one of vehicle speed information, yaw rate information, and steering angle information, and to sense a forward object existing within a sensing distance set in advance; a calculator that is configured to calculate at least one of a driving curvature radius, which is calculated based on the vehicle speed information and the yaw rate information, and a steering angular speed, which is calculated based on the steering angle information; and an adjusting unit that is configured to adjust the sensing distance to be decreased when the driving curvature radius is less than, or equal to, a predetermined curvature radius or when the steering angular speed is less than, or equal to, a predetermined angular speed.

The vehicle control device of the present invention acquires characteristics of a road condition in front of a traveling vehicle based on external information; acquires vehicle behavior control variables for controlling the behavior of the vehicle based on estimated state variables of the vehicle that are obtained based on the characteristics, and control variables concerning speed of the vehicle based on the external information; acquires trajectory tracking control variables for causing the vehicle to track the target trajectory based on the target trajectory on which the vehicle travels that are obtained based on the characteristics and the estimated state variables; and outputs the control commands for controlling the suspension device, steering device, and braking and driving device based on the vehicle behavior control variables and the trajectory tracking control variables. This improves travel stability of the vehicle on a road surface on which an irregularity such as ruts exists.

A control apparatus for controlling a vehicle which is provided with a braking/driving force varying device capable of individually changing a braking/driving force acting on each of wheels (FL, FR, RL, RR) with respect to each wheel. The control apparatus includes a target state quantity setting device for setting a target state quantity corresponding to a target motion state of the vehicle; and a target braking/driving force setting device for setting a target braking/driving force, which is a target value of the braking/driving force, such that a state quantity corresponding to the target state quantity and a steering reaction force transmitted to a steering apparatus from the wheel are the set target state quantity and a predetermined target steering reaction force, respectively, on the basis of a relative relation, which is set in advance, between the state quantity and the steering reaction force, and a left-right braking/driving force difference of front wheels and a left-right braking/driving force difference of rear wheels.

Methods and systems for controlling driving of a vehicle are disclosed, where line system includes one or more processors configured to identify objects, including another vehicle, around a host vehicle and collect object information about the objects, to collect road states information of road states in a traveling direction of the host vehicle, to check the object information around the host vehicle and the road states information to identify a safety zone to which the host vehicle is able to travel, and to control the host vehicle to travel to the safety zone when the other vehicle is detected in the traveling direction of the host vehicle in a state in which the host vehicle has entered a curved road.

A computer system including processing circuitry configured to: determine, during a braking event of a vehicle, an oscillation amplitude of a currently oscillating part of the vehicle; perform an amplitude comparison by comparing the determined oscillation amplitude with a predefined reference value; receive a brake request value indicative of a desired total brake torque or total brake force; perform a brake request comparison by comparing the received brake request value with a predefined brake request value; and control a brake distribution between front axle brakes and rear axle brakes of the vehicle based on the amplitude comparison and the brake request comparison, wherein the brake distribution is in the form of a brake torque distribution of said desired total brake torque or a brake force distribution of said desired total brake force. There is also disclosed a computer-implemented method.