A driving system for a vehicle includes one or more sensors, a controller, an actuator, and a safety shut down switch. The controller includes a main processing circuit, a main processing module, an actuator drive, a safety processing circuit, a safety processing module, and a safety shutdown switch. The safety processing module is independent of the main processing module, and the safety processing module is configured to perform one or more safety functions.

An abnormality detection apparatus for a mobility entity and for detecting an abnormality in a network system is provided. The network system includes a first network and a second network that use different communication protocols. A first communication circuit receives state information indicating a state of the mobility entity. The state information is acquired from the second network. A second communication circuit transmits and receives a first frame according to a communication protocol used in the first network. A memory stores an abnormality detection rule. A processor detects, based on the state information and the abnormality detection rule, whether a control command included in the first frame received by the second communication circuit is abnormal. In a case where the control command is abnormal, the processor prohibits the control command from being transmitted.

A method for controlling a vehicle controllable in a highly/fully automated manner. The method includes: ascertaining a malfunction of a vehicle control unit of the vehicle, the vehicle control unit being designed for a highly automated and/or fully automated control of the vehicle; switching from the vehicle control unit to an emergency control unit, the emergency control unit being based on a driver assistance system and designed for maximally a conditionally automatic control of the vehicle, and the emergency control unit being configured to effectuate a control of the vehicle in the event of a malfunction of the vehicle control unit; executing the emergency control of the vehicle; and controlling the vehicle with the aid of the emergency control unit based on surroundings sensor data of the vehicle.

A driving data extracting apparatus for an autonomous driving vehicle includes: a storage module for storing driving data of the autonomous driving vehicle; a driving record module configured to manage recording of the driving data, to divide the driving data into a plurality of pieces depending on a frame size based on a diagnostic protocol of unified diagnostic services (USD), and to output the divided driving data by using a routine control (RID) service; a diagnostic module configured to receive a request for extraction of the driving data from an external data extracting equipment, to sequentially receive the divided driving data from the driving record module, and to sequentially transmit the driving data to the data extracting equipment; and a diagnostic communication module configured to perform diagnostic communication based on the diagnostic protocol of the USD between the data extracting equipment and the diagnostic module.

A system for controlling a vehicle includes a terminal that collects at least one of a fault code of at least one controller of the vehicle, operation state data of the vehicle at a time the fault code is generated, and update data of the at least one controller, and a server that receives at least one of the fault code, the operation state data, or the update data of the at least one controller, in which the server labels fault code differently to classify the fault code depending on whether there is an update history of the at least one controller in which the fault code is generated.

Provided is an autonomous driving assistance system for vehicles that has redundancy without posing any problem in diversity. The autonomous driving assistance system includes: a sensor configured to acquire surroundings information; a downstream device including an actuator configured to control a vehicle; and a driving assistance device configured to calculate a control amount for the downstream device on the basis of the surroundings information. The downstream device further includes a diagnosis unit configured to: perform comparison between at least two control amounts that include the control amount calculated in the driving assistance device and a control amount calculated in the downstream device on the basis of the surroundings information; and determine, if the control amounts are equal to each other, that the control amounts are normal, and determine, if the control amounts are different from each other, that the control amounts are abnormal.

A fault check circuit, including a first channel comparator to output a first channel comparator output signal indicating whether a first channel digital signal is outside of a first channel threshold range, wherein the first channel digital signal is A/D converted from a first channel analog signal; a second channel comparator to output a second channel comparator output signal indicating whether a second channel digital signal is outside of a second channel threshold range, wherein the second channel digital signal is A/D converted from a second channel analog signal; and an alarm generator circuit to combine the first and second channel comparator output signals, and output a fault check signal, wherein the first and second channel comparators and the alarm generator circuit are implemented in hardware, and the fault check circuit performs a fault check without software intervention.

Methods and systems are provided for pinpointing a source of degradation in a vehicle engine system. In one example, a method includes spinning an engine of a vehicle unfueled in a forward and a reverse direction, in no particular order, and recording a first intake air flow and a second intake air flow, respectively, in an intake of the engine, and where the source of degradation is indicated as a function of both the first air flow and the second air flow. In this way, the degradation of the vehicle engine system may be pinpointed as to being located in the intake manifold, the exhaust system, or the engine.

Systems and methods cause a component of a vehicle to activate. The systems and methods receive audio data generated by a microphone of the vehicle, where the audio data represents sound of the component. Based on the audio data, a condition of the vehicle or the component may be determined, and based on the condition, the vehicle may be commissioned for use or decommissioned.

The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle (2) with a remotely controlled parking assistant (6), with the steps: (S100) Reading in status data (SD) indicative of a status (S1, S2, S3, S4), (S200) Determination of at least one state (Z1, Z2) by evaluating the status data (SD), (S300) Assigning the specific state (Z1, Z2) to a state class (K1, K2) of a plurality of state classes (K1, K2), and (S400) Outputting a control data record (AS1, AS2) that is assigned to the assigned state class (K1, K2) and/or (S600) outputting an information data record (IS1, IS2) that is assigned to the assigned state class (K1, K2).