An apparatus and method for controlling a vehicle speed based on information about forward vehicles that travel in the same lane may be acquired using Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communications in a cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) system. The CACC system includes a communication unit receiving vehicle information from neighboring vehicles using V2V communications; an information collection unit collecting vehicle information of the neighboring vehicles and the subject vehicle using sensors; and a control unit determining a forward vehicle and a far-forward vehicle using the sensors, selecting first and second target vehicles for being followed by the subject vehicle based on the vehicle information of the forward vehicle and the far-forward vehicle and the vehicle information of the neighboring vehicles, and controlling the driving speed of the subject vehicle based on speed information of the first and second target vehicles.

A control device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a driving assist system, a requested acceleration and ending information indicating an end of a deceleration control; and a control unit configured to control a powertrain and a brake based on the requested acceleration, and perform a prescribed process of stabilizing a driving force and a braking force that are generated in an ending process of the deceleration control based on the requested acceleration when the acquisition unit acquires the ending information.

The invention relates to a method and arrangement for determining a current road inclination, specifically taking into account a quality measure for the determination. The invention also relates to a corresponding computer program product. The method comprises the steps of: —measuring (S1), a first vehicle operating parameter; —receiving (S2) the first vehicle operating parameter; —determining (S3) an indication of a quality level for the first vehicle operating parameter, and —determining (S4) an estimated value of the current road inclination based on the first vehicle operating parameter and the indication of the quality level for the first vehicle operating parameter.

A method controls a drive system for an axle of a motor vehicle, wherein the drive system has at least an electrical machine as drive unit, a drive shaft which is driven by the drive unit, a first output shaft and a second output shaft and also a first clutch which connects the drive shaft to the first output shaft and a second clutch which connects the drive shaft to the second output shaft.

A vehicle and method for controlling a vehicle having a traction battery and an internal combustion engine include adapting a power limitation of the internal combustion engine by sensing a currently supplied power level of the internal combustion engine and a current velocity of the vehicle, sensing an ambient temperature of the vehicle and determining an associated ambient-temperature-related weighting factor, sensing an ambient air pressure and determining an associated air-pressure-related weighting factor, determining a thermal load indicator as a function of a ratio of the sensed currently supplied power and the sensed current velocity as well as of the ambient-temperature-related weighting factor, the air-pressure-related weighting factor, and a vehicle-bodywork-related weighting factor, and limiting a maximum supplied power level of the internal combustion engine as a function of the determined thermal load indicator.

A method for controlling a response to driving load of a hybrid vehicle includes: estimating an optimum speed for a current driving situation, estimating a target driving load based on the optimum speed, determining an eco-level corresponding to the target driving load from among a plurality of eco-levels, and changing at least some of an eco-gauge according to the determined eco-level.

A method for operating a drivetrain of a motor vehicle including at least one drive motor, a transmission device and at least one wheel which can be driven by the drive motor via the transmission device, in which respective actuations of respective shifting elements of the transmission device are brought about in order to influence thereby a transfer of a torque provided by the drive motor from the drive motor to the wheel via the transmission device, whereinthe torque provided by the drive motor is set as a function of a transfer function which indicates a factor by which the torque is to be multiplied, in order to calculate a wheel torque resulting from the torque and from the transfer and acting on the wheel.

A driving force control apparatus for controlling a driving force to be transmitted to a wheel includes a processor. The processor is configured to set, when the wheel is idled, a control amount of the driving force to be transmitted to the wheel based on a vehicle acceleration.

A vehicle includes an electric machine and a controller. The controller is programmed to responsive to a threshold difference, indicative of wheel slip, between average wheel speed and a vehicle speed that is based on a difference between wheel acceleration and measured vehicle acceleration, command a speed to the electric machine to reduce the wheel slip.

An information processing apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a data set including a requested acceleration as information representing movement of a vehicle in a front-rear direction and any one of a steering angle, a yaw rate, and a rotation radius as information representing movement of the vehicle in a lateral direction from each of a plurality of applications, an arbitration unit configured to perform arbitration of information representing the movement of the vehicle in the front-rear direction and arbitration of information representing the movement of the vehicle in the lateral direction based on a plurality of the data sets received by the receiver, and a first output unit configured to output instruction information for driving an actuator based on an arbitration result of the arbitration unit.