A passive infra-red guidance system and method for augmenting operation of an autonomous vehicle on a roadway includes at least one forward-looking infra-red imaging sensor mounted on the vehicle in operative communication with an image processor tied into the vehicle's operational system. The system determines the left and right edges of the roadway using thermal imaging, and then determines the centerline of the travel lane in which the vehicle is travelling based on the determined left and right edges of the roadway. The system then compares the determined centerline of the travel lane with the actual position of the vehicle and identifies any adjustment needed for the vehicle's position based on the comparison. The left and right edge determination may comprise identifying a difference between a thermal signature representative of the roadway and a thermal signature representative of a non-roadway portion that is located proximate to the roadway portion.

A passive infra-red pedestrian detection and avoidance system and method for augmenting the operation of a vehicle on a roadway, especially for identifying potential pedestrian/vehicular collision danger for the vehicle in operation and adjusting the position and operation of the vehicle accordingly, includes at least one passive infra-red sensor array mounted on the vehicle in operative communication with an image processor tied into the operational system of the vehicle. The system detects, using thermal imaging and processing, the presence of people that may be in or laterally crossing into the travel lane of the vehicle. The image processor analyzes the detection of a human thermal signature and determines if the detected human thermal signature is moving, in what direction and at what speed, to assess any potential threat to the pedestrian or biker, and further whether any responsive action needs to be triggered in the vehicle's operation to avoid a collision.

A vehicle control system includes: a gate selector configured to select a gate to be merged associated with a path to be merged after passage of the gate among a plurality of gates in accordance with a merging status between vehicles after passage of the gate; and a gate passage controller configured to control a subject vehicle such that the subject vehicle passes through the gate selected by the gate selector.

A vehicle control device that stops a vehicle traveling with autonomous driving at a predetermined stop point includes a position estimation unit configured to estimate a position of the vehicle, a state recognition unit configured to recognize a travel state of the vehicle, a control unit configured to stop the vehicle at the stop point based on the position and the travel state of the vehicle, and a situation recognition unit configured to recognize a road-crossing moving object being present around the stop point. The control unit stops the vehicle at a first stop position with the stop point as a reference when the road-crossing moving object around the stop point is not recognized. The control unit stops the vehicle at a second stop position in front of the first stop position when the road-crossing moving object around the stop point is recognized.

A safety apparatus of a vehicle and a method of using the same are disclosed. The safety apparatus provides safety to a pedestrian and a vehicle traveling in a lane next to parked vehicles in a blind spot formed by the parked vehicles. The safety apparatus for a vehicle includes a plurality of sensor, a controller, and a display. The sensors sense the presence and positions of a pedestrian and a traveling vehicle that are approaching the vehicle. The controller calculates a moving direction and moving speed of each of the pedestrian and the traveling vehicle using the result sensed by the plurality of sensors. The display displays the position, the moving direction, or the moving speed of the pedestrian or the traveling vehicle such that the displayed information is easily recognized by any object present in an external part.

The present disclosure relates to a vehicle control device provided in a vehicle and a method for controlling the vehicle. A vehicle control device provided in a vehicle according to the present disclosure, as a vehicle control device for controlling the vehicle, may include a communication unit configured to receive a map having a plurality of layers from a server; and a processor configured to generate a control signal for driving the vehicle using the map, wherein a control region that is a reference for the generation of the control signal around a location of the vehicle is defined differently according to a preset reference.

A system and method for mitigating or avoiding risks due to hazards encountered by platooning vehicles. The system and method involve interrogating, with one or more sensors, a space radially extending from a lead vehicle as the lead vehicle travels over the road surface, perceiving the environment within the space, ascertaining a hazard caused by an object in the space, and causing a following vehicle, operating in a platoon with the lead vehicle, to take a preemptive braking action to avoid or mitigate risks resulting from the hazard caused by the object in the space.

A collision avoidance support device comprises: target detection unit for detecting an target existing in front of a vehicle travelling on a road; target type determination unit for detecting which of a moving object and a stationary object the target detected by the target detection unit is; obstacle determination unit for determining whether or not the target detected by the target detection unit is an obstacle which is likely to collide with the vehicle; and traveling direction automatic control unit. The traveling direction automatic control unit is configured to calculate the selected avoidance path so that the distance margin of when the obstacle determination unit determines that the obstacle is the moving object is larger than the distance margin of when the obstacle determination unit determines that the obstacle is the stationary object.

A method for operating a partially autonomous motor vehicle, wherein in a non-parked state of the motor vehicle, sensor data of a sensor device, which detects at least one person in the surroundings of the motor vehicle, are analyzed with respect to a behavior of the person disadvantageously impairing the further driving operation of the motor vehicle and at least one action counteracting the behavior of the person is triggered in dependence on the analysis result.

A method for labeling events of interest in vehicular sensor data includes accessing sensor data captured by a plurality of sensors disposed at a vehicle, and providing a trigger condition including a plurality of threshold values. The trigger condition is satisfied when values representative of the sensor data satisfy each threshold value. An event of interest is identified when the trigger condition is satisfied at a point in time of the recording of sensor data. A visual indication of the event of interest is displayed on a graphical user interface. Visual elements derived from a portion of the sensor data representative of the event of interest are displayed on the graphical user interface. A label for the event of interest is received from a user. The label and the sensor data representative of the point in time are stored at a database time.