The present invention provides a controller capable of handling special travel made by a straddle-type vehicle. The present invention also obtains a rider-assistance system including such a controller. The present invention further obtains a control method capable of handling special travel made by a straddle-type vehicle.

Left target information and right target information are acquired on the basis of output of at least one surrounding environment detector (11c, 11d). The left target information is information on a target (T1) located on a left side of a travel line (DL) of a straddle-type vehicle (100). The right target information is information on a target (T2) located on a right side of the travel line (DL). A travel state of the straddle-type vehicle (100) is analyzed on the basis of at least one of the left target information and the right target information, and rider-assistance operation corresponding to an analysis result thereof is executed.

A driving mode control method, apparatus, device, program and storage medium, which relates to the technical field of electronic control, and is for a control platform, the method includes: acquiring a location information sent by a target vehicle, wherein the location information comprises a target location; determining a status data of at least one sample vehicle pre-stored by the control platform based on the target location, wherein the sample vehicle is a vehicle which has travelled through the target location; determining a target driving mode based on the status data of the sample vehicle, and sending the target driving mode to the target vehicle, such that the target vehicle travels in the target driving mode. This disclosure enables the target vehicle to travel in the target driving mode. The driver needs not to manually switch the driving mode, and the accuracy and convenience of controlling the drive mode are improved.

A hybrid vehicle control method controls a hybrid vehicle. In this control method, a rotational speed command value for a power generation system is determined in accordance with a state of a drive system, a torque command value is determined for the power generation system such that the rotational speed of the power generation system reaches the rotational speed command value, a damping control is performed to suppress a characteristic vibration component generated in a connection between the engine and the power generator to calculate a final torque command value for the power generation system, and the torque command value is set as the final torque command value without performing the damping control upon determining a system resonance can occur that is caused by vibration of a component different from the characteristic vibration component.

An apparatus for controlling driving of a vehicle includes a communicator that receives autonomous driving data of another vehicle, a sensor that obtains surrounding environment information and manual driving data of a subject vehicle, and a controller that obtains autonomous driving data of the subject vehicle based on the surrounding environment information and determines whether to switch to autonomous driving of the subject vehicle based on the autonomous driving data and manual driving data of the subject vehicle and the autonomous driving data of the another vehicle.

A control device includes an internal combustion engine control unit configured to control an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine control unit is configured to, in a case where a first traveling mode, increase a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine in accordance with an increase in a speed of a vehicle and when the rotational speed reaches a predetermined first rotational speed, decrease the rotational speed to a second rotational speed lower than the first rotational speed, calculate a decrease rate of the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine per unit time when the rotational speed is decreased from the first rotational speed to the second rotational speed, and in a case where the traveling mode setting unit shifts from the first traveling mode to the second traveling mode, decrease the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine based on the decrease rate.

A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product controls a driving mode of a self-driving vehicle (SDV). One or more processors compare a control processor competence level of an on-board SDV control processor in controlling the SDV to a human driver competence level of a human driver in controlling the SDV while the SDV encounters a current roadway condition which is a result of current weather conditions of the roadway on which the SDV is currently traveling. One or more processors then selectively assign control of the SDV to the SDV control processor or to the human driver while the SDV encounters the current roadway condition based on which of the control processor competence level and the human driver competence level is relatively higher to one another.

High-performance road vehicle having: a plurality of replaceable or removable components; a control unit, which controls the operation of the road vehicle; at least one electronic identification device, which is fitted on a corresponding component, has a memory designed to contain at least one unique identifying code of the component and has a first transmission organ designed to send the data contained in the memory; and a second transmission organ, designed to communicate with the first transmission organ and connected to the control unit to allow the control unit to read the univocal identifying code of the component.

A vehicle driving assist system includes a steering wheel contact position detector, a steering torque detector, a driving mode setting calculator, and a steering override determiner. The driving mode setting calculator is configured to set a driving mode including a first driving assist mode, a second driving assist mode, and a manual driving mode. The driving mode setting calculator is configured, while traveling in a current driving mode that is the first driving assist mode or the second driving assist mode, to allow the current driving mode to continue in a case where the steering override determiner has determined that a steering torque detected by the steering torque detector is a false detection or to cause the driving mode to make a transition to the manual driving mode in a case where the steering override determiner has determined that the steering torque is a steering override intended by a driver.

A computer in a vehicle includes first and second electronic control units (ECUs). The first and second ECUs are programmed to monitor, respectively, a first operating condition and a second operating condition. Each operating condition includes one of path deviation, lane width, user awareness, or steering torque. The second ECU is programmed to monitor the second operating condition according to a protocol with a security measure. The first or second ECU is further programmed to control vehicle operation based on the first or second operating condition.

Models can be generated of a vehicle's view of its environment and used to maneuver the vehicle. This view need not include what objects or features the vehicle is actually seeing, but rather those areas that the vehicle is able to observe using its sensors if the sensors were completely un-occluded. For example, for each of a plurality of sensors of the object detection component, a computer may generate an individual 3D model of that sensor's field of view. Weather information is received and used to adjust one or more of the models. After this adjusting, the models may be aggregated into a comprehensive 3D model. The comprehensive model may be combined with detailed map information indicating the probability of detecting objects at different locations. The model of the vehicle's environment may be computed based on the combined comprehensive 3D model and detailed map information.