A driving assist system for a vehicle includes a sensor disposed at the equipped vehicle and having a field of sensing exterior of the equipped vehicle and forward of the equipped vehicle. A controller includes a processor operable to process data captured by the sensor. The controller, responsive at least in part to an initial speed setting of an adaptive cruise control system of the equipped vehicle, controls acceleration of the equipped vehicle. The controller, responsive at least in part to processing by the processor of data captured by the sensor, determines presence of a target vehicle ahead of the equipped vehicle and determines an acceleration profile to adjust the speed of the vehicle from the current vehicle speed to a target speed. The controller adjusts the acceleration of the equipped vehicle responsive to the acceleration profile, which has smooth transitions between the initial speed setting and the target speed.

The present invention includes: a PI/PID controller that generates a torque compensation value K.sub.PID through PI control or PID control, from a deviation between an allowable rotation speed and a rotation speed of a wheel; an adder that adds the torque compensation value to a torque command input value received from a higher-order controller, thereby obtaining a torque command output value; and a dead time compensator that has a control target model including a dead time and that applies a dead time compensation in generation of the torque compensation value by the Smith method. An input to the dead time compensator is an output of a P compensation or a PD compensation excluding an I compensation from a PI compensation or a PID compensation.

A system controls a drivability mode of a hybrid motor vehicle provided with a heat engine and with an electric engine. The system includes a first measurer for measuring running conditions of the vehicle, a second measurer for measuring a level of charge of a battery of the vehicle, a first controller for controlling the heat engine, a second controller for controlling the electric engine, a computer capable of emitting a first activation signal for the heat engine, and a second activation signal for the electric engine, as a function of the running conditions and of the level of charge, and a third measurer for measuring at least one characteristic relating to an operation of a heating system of the vehicle. The first activation signal and the second activation signal are generated on the basis of the characteristic relating to the operation of the heating system.

In one embodiment, an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) speed following system determines how much and when to apply a throttle or a brake control of an ADV to maneuver the ADV around, or to avoid, obstacles of a planned route. The speed following system calculates a first torque force to accelerate the ADV, a second torque force to counteract frictional forces and wind resistances to maintain a reference speed, and a third torque force to minimize an initial difference and external disturbances thereafter between predefined target speed and actual speed of the ADV over a planned route. The speed following system determines a throttle-brake torque force based on the first, second, and third torque forces and utilizes the throttle-brake torque force to control a subsequent speed of the ADV.

Systems and methods are provided for controlling an autonomous vehicle. A method includes using a lateral controller system for determining a vehicle's curvature. A longitudinal controller system is used for determining desired vehicle acceleration. The longitudinal controller system uses a control loop with respect to a velocity error and a feedforward term. Commands are generated based on the output of the lateral controller system and the longitudinal controller system.

An electromechanical power transmission chain comprises an electric machine (110) mechanically connectable to a combustion engine (111) and to one or more actuators (114) to be driven, an energy-storage (118) for storing electric energy, converter equipment (115) for driving the electric machine in a torque controlled mode when transferring electric energy between the electric machine and the energy-storage, and a device (101) for producing a torque reference for the electric machine. The device produces a control value based on electric energy stored by the energy-storage so that the control value is a decreasing function of the stored electric energy, and produces the torque reference based on a difference between the control value and a control signal indicative of torque produced by the combustion engine.

A control device for a vehicle comprising a moveable element and means for outputting a signal indicative of an angle that a wheel of a vehicle should be rotated through, thereby allowing movement of the vehicle, wherein the indicated angle is based on the degree of movement the moveable element is moved through.

A driving support apparatus performing a plurality of driving support includes: a reliability acquiring unit that acquires each reliability of a plurality of detection apparatus, the reliability representing likelihood of a detection result of the detection apparatus; a determination unit that determines whether or not each of the detection apparatus is a high reliability apparatus determined based on a reliability threshold; a correspondence acquiring unit that acquires correspondence information representing a correspondence between combinations of the plurality of detection apparatus including information of whether or not each apparatus is a high reliability apparatus, and types of driving support to be performed; a setting unit that sets a driving support to be performed, based on a result of the determination; an executing unit that executes the driving support to be performed; and an output unit that outputs a command to allow the executing unit to execute the driving support.

A method is for manufacturing a controller for a control section including a rack of a steering system of a vehicle. The method includes providing measurements characterizing an actual behavior of the control section at different operating points, and specifying a target behavior of the rack. The method also includes determining functions modeling a deviation of the actual behavior from the target behavior at a respective operating point for each one of the different operating points depending on the measurements. At least one parameter of the controller affects an actual transmission behavior of the control section. The at least one parameter includes a proportional gain factor, an integral gain factor, and/or a differential gain factor of the controller, and is determined depending on the deviations determined for the different operating points, such that the control section has a specified target transmission behavior.

Systems and methods for dynamic predictive control of autonomous vehicles are disclosed. In one aspect, an in-vehicle control system for a semi-truck includes one or more control mechanisms configured to control movement of the semi-truck and a processor. The system further includes computer-readable memory in communication with the processor and having stored thereon computer-executable instructions to cause the processor to receive a desired trajectory and a vehicle status of the semi-truck, determine a dynamic model of the semi-truck based on the desired trajectory and the vehicle status, determine at least one quadratic program (QP) problem based on the dynamic model, generate at least one control command for controlling the semi-truck by solving the at least one QP problem, and provide the at least one control command to the one or more control mechanisms.