An in-vehicle electronic device connected to a plurality of calculation units mounted on a vehicle includes a communication unit that communicates with the plurality of calculation units, and a control unit that issues an instruction of substitution control to another calculation unit when an abnormality occurs in any one of the plurality of calculation units. When an abnormality occurs in the first calculation unit among the plurality of calculation units, the control unit acquires substitute capability information indicating whether the execution content of the first calculation unit can be substituted from another calculation unit.

A method of a transportation vehicle for context-dependent processing of a potential error of a vehicle component. The method includes determining a current context of the transportation vehicle and of at least one vehicle component of the transportation vehicle that is heterogeneous in the current context. In response to at least one heterogeneous vehicle component being determined, a heterogeneous verification of the potential error is performed taking into account the at least one heterogeneous vehicle component. In response to no heterogeneous vehicle component being determined, a context-dependent relevance of the vehicle component is determined. Based on the determined context-dependent relevance, then either the potential error of the vehicle component is handled or an emergency operating mode of the transportation vehicle is initiated. Also disclosed is a transportation vehicle having a control unit to perform the method.

An embodiment is a redundant control system for autonomous steering including a sensor in a vehicle configured to sense information for autonomous driving, a main steerer configured to actuate a steering motor to perform steering, first autonomous controller configured to use data provided from the sensor to determine a target steering angle through real-time lane recognition and to control the main steerer, an auxiliary steerer configured to use a brake module composed of a main brake and an auxiliary brake to perform steering, and a second autonomous controller configured to control the auxiliary steerer to perform supplementary steering through partial braking and application of additional actuation in the event of abnormal operation of an automatic steering function using the first autonomous controller and to control backup braking through the auxiliary brake when the main brake fails.

A method and device are disclosed for improved object detection in an area surrounding a robot. In the method, first and second sensing data are obtained, which can be assigned to a first or second sensing means of the robot, respectively, and which contain at least one portion of the area surrounding the robot. An objection detection of an object in the area surrounding the robot is carried out using a fusion of at least the first and the second sensing data. An item of redundancy information is generated, which is assigned to the object detection and at least indicates whether the detected object has been detected using only the first or only the second sensing data or whether the detected object or at least one or more sections of same has been detected redundantly using both the first and the second sensing data.

A control device installed in a vehicle, the control device including one or more processors configured to: accept a plurality of first requests from a driver assistance system; perform arbitration of the first requests; calculate a second request that is a physical quantity that is different from the first requests, based on an arbitration result from the arbitration; calculate a third request that is the same physical quantity as the second request, based on a value realized by the vehicle and the first request; and distribute the second request and the third request to at least one of a plurality of actuator systems, wherein the one or more processors are configured to restrict calculation of the third request based on a predetermined condition.

The power supply device includes a low voltage battery, a high voltage battery, a starter generator, a DC-DC converter, a changeover switch, and a controller. When an abnormality or a failure has occurred in the DC-DC converter, the controller controls the changeover switch to connect the starter generator to the other battery without via the DC-DC converter and controls the output of the starter generator corresponding to the connected other battery.

A method for controlling a steer-by-wire system, comprising receiving vehicle data and a steering request from a vehicle, determining whether a steering road wheel actuator of the vehicle has failed using the vehicle data, in response to determining that the steering road wheel actuator of the vehicle has failed, determining a target wheel slip of the vehicle based on the steering request, maintaining the target wheel slip of the vehicle while the vehicle is in motion; and adjusting a wheel speed of at least one wheel of the vehicle based on a feedback signal, wherein the feedback signal is indicative of a road wheel angle while the vehicle is in motion.

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of providing suspension health monitoring in a vehicle according to examples. In examples, suspension health monitoring includes applying a machine learning (ML) model to collected sensor data for detecting patterns of behavior that can be correlated to a failing state of a component of the suspension system of the vehicle. The ML model may be trained to detect various stages of a failing state of one or more components. A failing state may be associated with a pattern of movement, vibration, temperatures, pressure variations, and/or another measurable characteristic of one or more drive axles and/or other monitored components as a result of the suspension system's response to a driving event. In some examples, a mitigation action is determined and performed to help mitigate the failing state and prevent further failure and/or performance and safety issues.

A method for operating a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle includes at least one actuating device which can be actuated by a driver for specifying a braking, acceleration and/or steering request. The actuating device is assigned at least one first sensor for detecting an actuation of the actuating device. The actuating device and/or the first sensor (5) are monitored for a malfunction. If a malfunction of the actuating device and/or the first sensor has been detected, an at least partially autonomous driving mode of the motor vehicle is activated and at least one autonomous driving maneuver is carried out as a function of the value of at least one specified parameter assigned or assignable to the motor vehicle.

A vehicle control apparatus includes: a vehicle state judgment unit that judges a transverse driving control state and a longitudinal driving control state of a vehicle when detecting that a torque of a vehicle power source is abnormal, and judges a normal power source when the transverse driving control is in a normal state and the longitudinal driving control is in a failure state; a driving condition judgment unit that judges a driving state corresponding to a predetermined accident risk driving condition by using vehicle information when there is the normal power source; and a vehicle control unit that controls driving of the vehicle by using a target safety torque provided in advance when the driving state of the vehicle corresponds to the accident risk driving condition, where the vehicle is operated using the target safety torque when the driving state is the accident risk driving condition.