The present disclosure relates to active vibration control of a hybrid electric vehicle. One form provides a method that may include setting up a period of fast Fourier transform (FFT) and performing FFT of an engine speed or a motor speed corresponding to the period of the FFT from a reference angle signal; setting up a reference spectrum; extracting vibration components to be removed based on information of the reference spectrum; selecting and adding a removal object frequency from the vibration of each frequency and performing inverse FFT; determining a basic amplitude ratio according to the engine speed and the engine load; determining an adjustable rate which decreases an anti-phase torque as a change amount of the engine speed is decreased; and performing active vibration control of each frequency based on the information of the basic amplitude ratio, the adjustable rate, and the engine torque.

Disclosed are a method of and an apparatus for controlling a vibration of a hybrid electric vehicle. An apparatus for controlling a vibration of a hybrid electric vehicle may include: an engine position detector detecting a position of an engine; an air amount detector detecting an air amount flowing into the engine; an accelerator pedal position detector detecting a position of an accelerator pedal; a vehicle speed detector detecting a speed of the hybrid electric vehicle; and a controller. The controller controls operation of a motor based on the position of the engine, the air amount, the position of the accelerator pedal, and the speed of the hybrid electric vehicle.

The object of the present invention is a system (1) for the estimation of one or more parameters (L, D) related to the load of a vehicle. The system comprises: one or more sensors for detecting one or more kinematic quantities of the vehicle (I) suitable to generate signals representing said vehicle kinematic quantities; one or more modules (2) for determining one or more frequency spectra pairs (FFT1,FFT2), each pair associated to one of said one or more vehicle kinematic quantities (I), from the signal representing the respective vehicle kinematic quantity filtered in a first and in a second predetermined frequency bands; One or more modules (7) for determining said one or more parameters (L, D) related to the load of the vehicle, from said one or more frequency spectra pairs (FFT1,FFT2).

Sound signals are received by one or more microphones disposed at an ADV. The sound signals are analyzed to extract a feature of a road on which the ADV is driving. A road condition of the road is determined based on the extracted feature. A path planning and speed planning is performed to generate a trajectory based on the road condition. The ADV is controlled to drive autonomously according to the generated trajectory.

The present disclosure detects hands on/off by performing a frequency analysis based on a torque value of a steering wheel, so that it is possible to improve performance of hands on/off determination by using only an existing torque sensor even without requiring an additional sensor for detecting hands on/off.

The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle system which is designed to guide the motor vehicle in different driving situation classes in a fully automated manner. The method includes ascertaining a current driving situation class from multiple specified driving situation classes using at least some of driving situation data, each driving situation class is assigned at least one analysis function. The method further includes retrieving configuration parameter sets assigned to the analysis functions of the current driving situation class from a database and producing analysis units which carry out the analysis function and which have not yet been provided by configuring configuration objects using the retrieved configuration parameter sets.

The present disclosure relates to active vibration control of a hybrid electric vehicle. One form provides a method that may include setting up a period of fast Fourier transform (FFT) and performing FFT of an engine speed or a motor speed corresponding to the period of the FFT from a reference angle signal; setting up a reference spectrum; extracting vibration components to be removed based on information of the reference spectrum; selecting and adding a removal object frequency from the vibration of each frequency and performing inverse FFT; determining a basic amplitude ratio according to the engine speed and the engine load; determining an adjustable rate which decreases an anti-phase torque as a change amount of the engine speed is decreased; and performing active vibration control of each frequency based on the information of the basic amplitude ratio, the adjustable rate, and the engine torque.

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for active vibration control of a hybrid electric vehicle. Forms of the present disclosure may provide a method for active vibration control of a hybrid electric vehicle that may include detecting an engine speed or a motor speed; selecting a reference angle signal based on position information of a motor or an engine; setting up a period of fast Fourier transform (FFT) and performing FFT of the engine speed or the motor speed corresponding to the period of the FFT from the reference angle signal; setting up a reference spectrum according to an engine speed and an engine load; extracting a vibration components to be removed based on information of the reference spectrum; summing vibration components to be removed according to the frequencies and performing inverse FFT; determining an amplitude ratio according to the engine speed and the engine load; and performing active vibration control of each frequency based on the information of the amplitude ratio and the engine torque.

A waveform estimating method performed by a computer, the waveform estimating method including: estimating a first vibration component of less than a first frequency in a period from a present time to a time preceding by a half wavelength of the first frequency, using an input waveform in the period, the input waveform corresponding to a driving trajectory of a vehicle traveling on a roadway; and calculating a second vibration component of the first frequency or higher in the period by subtracting the first vibration component from the input waveform.

A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes: a first controller configured to perform first control of causing a rotation speed of an engine to approach a target rotation speed; and a second controller disposed separately from the first controller and configured to perform second control of reducing vibration due to fluctuation of the rotation speed of the engine by controlling a torque which is output from an electric motor connected to the engine. The second controller is configured to control the electric motor such that a torque associated with the second control is not output in a first frequency area which is a control frequency range of a transfer function of the first controller and to control the electric motor such that the torque associated with the second control is output in a second frequency area of a transfer function of the second controller which is higher than the first frequency area.