The purpose of the present invention is to provide a system such that functions of a vehicle control system can be quickly reconfigured. The present invention is a processing device connected to at least one processing device, wherein during a period in which the one processing device executes a control operation on the basis of a control program installed in the one processing device, the processing device acquires a substitute program for the control program. In another aspect, the present invention is an on-board control system equipped with multiple processing devices, wherein during a period in which one processing device among the multiple processing devices executes a control operation on the basis of a control program installed in the one processing device, another processing device acquires a substitute program for the program in the one processing device.

A control system is provided for a vehicle that includes a plurality of vehicle corner modules (VCMs) which each comprise at least two of: a drive subsystem, a steering subsystem, and a braking subsystem. The control system comprises a network of VCM-controllers that are onboard and installed within a different respective VCM and that are operatively linked to each one of the subsystems of its respective VCM to receive therefrom sensor data and to regulate operation thereof in response to incoming signals received from outside its respective VCM. The control system provides a no-fault operating mode defined by the absence of a control-system fault, and a VCM-controller of a first VCM is programmed to control, when operating in the no-fault operating mode, at least one subsystem in a second VCM.

A hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, an electrical storage device, a rotary electric machine, and a controller. The hybrid vehicle travels in a selected one of a charge sustaining mode and a charge depleting mode. Switching from the charge depleting mode to the charge sustaining mode is controlled such that a first state of charge is higher than a second state of charge. In the first state of charge, the controller switches from the charge depleting mode to the charge sustaining mode at the time when operation characteristic of the intake valve is unchangeable to a desired operation characteristic. In the second state of charge there is switching from the charge depleting mode to the charge sustaining mode at the time when the operation characteristic of the intake valve is changeable to a desired operation characteristic.

An energy management control device for a hybrid vehicle has an energy management controller that suppresses an occurrence of a condition in which an EV start is not possible due to insufficient battery charge capacity when an engagement clutch fails. When the energy management controller has determined that one of the engagement clutches has failed that is used to carry out an EV start using a first motor generator as a drive source that receives electrical power from a high-power battery when starting the vehicle, energy management maps are used in energy management control, which have a usage SOC range that is broader than the usage SOC range of the normal energy management map, which is used during normal operation.

Methods and systems are provided for starting an engine in a hybrid vehicle. In one example, a method includes cranking an engine of the vehicle by controlling a capacity of a clutch of a dual clutch transmission positioned downstream of the engine and compensating for driveline disturbance resulting from the cranking via controlling an electric machine positioned downstream of the dual clutch transmission. In this way, engine starting may be conducted under a variety of vehicle operating conditions.

A safety stoppage device for an autonomous road vehicle having at least one control network and sensor, and an autonomous drive-control unit for processing sensor and communication signals and providing control signals for lateral and longitudinal control. A primary brake-control unit is configured to monitor the longitudinal control signals for faults and, upon determination of a fault, execute a longitudinal control profile, stored independent from the autonomous drive-control unit, to perform braking to a stop. A primary steering-control unit is configured to monitor the lateral control signals for faults and, upon determination of a fault, control a primary steering actuator to follow a lateral control trajectory, stored independent from the autonomous drive-control unit, and, if not already triggered, simultaneously trigger the primary brake-control unit to execute the stored longitudinal control profile to control wheel brakes to perform braking to a stop during execution of the lateral control trajectory.

While coolant is used to cool a motor inverter and a generator inverter included in a power drive unit configured to invert power between a battery and a motor/generator in both directions, an EV travel mode and a power generation travel mode are switched according to detection values from sensors in an electrically driven vehicle and including a switching device temperature sensor for a switching device of the inverters and a coolant temperature sensor, thereby controlling the vehicle. A failure of the coolant temperature sensor is detected according to a detection value from the coolant temperature sensor, and, in the EV travel mode, a detection value detected by the switching device temperature sensor for the switching device of the generator inverter is set as a detection value of a temperature of the coolant when the failure of the coolant temperature sensor is detected.

A transmission control device is provided for a hybrid vehicle that ensures gear shift responsiveness corresponding to a driver's request while achieving excellent gear shifting quality when shifting gears under normal conditions. The transmission control device includes a transmission controller that carries out a shift control for switching between gear shift patterns that are established by the multistage gear transmission by a movement of the engagement clutches based on a gear shift request. The transmission controller selects from among a plurality of gear shift patterns that can be established gear shift patterns in which one engagement clutch is present in a power transmission path leading from the power sources to a drive wheel, and designates the selected gear shift patterns as a normal-use gear shift pattern group, which is used for shift control under normal conditions.

A transmission control device is provided for a hybrid vehicle that ensures gear shift responsiveness corresponding to a driver's request while achieving excellent gear shifting quality when shifting gears under normal conditions. The transmission control device includes a transmission controller that carries out a shift control for switching between gear shift patterns that are established by the multistage gear transmission by a movement of the engagement clutches based on a gear shift request. The transmission controller selects from among a plurality of gear shift patterns that can be established gear shift patterns in which one engagement clutch is present in a power transmission path leading from the power sources to a drive wheel, and designates the selected gear shift patterns as a normal-use gear shift pattern group, which is used for shift control under normal conditions.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a system in which the reliability of an automatic driving system can be excellently complemented by a different control system while the automatic driving system is effectively used. The vehicle control device outputs to a drive device one of a first control signal generated on the basis of automatic driving control information, and a second control signal generated on the basis of the relative information between a vehicle and a surrounding object. If an abnormality is detected in the automatic driving control information, the second control signal is output to the drive device in place of the first control signal.