A method for updating a vehicle reference speed for a vehicle is disclosed. The method includes increasing brake pressure to at least one wheel of the plurality of wheels and determining, via an electronic control unit, that a first wheel speed of the at least one wheel is less than a second wheel speed of another wheel of the plurality of wheels. The method also includes estimating the vehicle reference speed of the vehicle based upon the first wheel speed of the at least one wheel.

There is provided a configuration, including a storage unit that stores a theoretical driving wheel rotating speed based on a correspondence relationship with a predetermined engine speed in each gear stage of a transmission of a vehicle; gear stage detection means for detecting the gear stage when currently travelling; engine speed detection means for detecting an engine speed; driving wheel rotating speed detection means for detecting a driving wheel rotating speed; and torque control means for controlling output torque, in which the output torque is increased so that a current driving wheel rotating speed becomes close to the theoretical driving wheel rotating speed when a relative value of a calculated value which is calculated by using the detected driving wheel rotating speed with respect to a calculated value which is calculated by using the theoretical driving wheel rotating speed is equal to or greater than a first threshold value.

A method for automatically adapting a traction control of a vehicle. The method includes: receiving current state variables of the vehicle, each of which indicates a current state of the vehicle; determining a control action using a traction controller based on the received current state variables, wherein the control action includes increasing, maintaining, or decreasing a control variable including a torque of a motor and/or a pressure of a brake cylinder; determining a control gradient of the control variable using a value matrix which includes a plurality of parameters each assigned to current value matrix state variables of the vehicle, wherein the control gradient is selected from the plurality of parameters as a function of the current value matrix state variables which include the current value matrix state variables; carrying out the traction control of the vehicle.

There is provided a method for estimating friction between a tire of a vehicle and a road surface, the method comprising acquiring, a front wheel axle torque, a rear wheel axle torque, a vehicle longitudinal acceleration, a vehicle pitch rate and wheel rotational velocities. The method further comprises determining a front wheel normal force and a rear wheel normal force, based on a center of gravity of the vehicle and the longitudinal acceleration; determining a longitudinal tire stiffness, jointly determining a vehicle longitudinal velocity, based on the wheel rotational velocities and vehicle longitudinal acceleration, and a vehicle pitch angle relative to the horizontal plane based on the vehicle pitch rate; and determining a friction coefficient between tires and ground based on the front and rear wheel axle torque, the front wheel normal force and the joint estimation of pitch angle and vehicle longitudinal velocity. There is also provided a system for performing the described method.

An method of inspecting a moving object movable by remote control includes: a first step of giving an instruction from a server to a moving object as an inspection target to drive the moving object so that an output value relating to moving of the moving object becomes a predetermined target value; a second step of acquiring a measured output value from inspection on the moving object; an auxiliary inspection step of performing the first and second steps on a normal moving object different from the moving object as the inspection target and about which the output value is normal when a difference between the target and measured values is not within a predetermined first range; and a third step of outputting information indicating an abnormality in the server when the difference between the target and measured values is outside a predetermined second range in the normal moving object.

A method for determining a vehicle reference speed and a vehicle controller having such a method, in which directly or indirectly determined or estimated vehicle status signals, including weighting factors associated with each of the vehicle status signals, are merged in a merging module, wherein the merging module includes at least two stochastic estimators, which exchange signals with one another that correspond to physical vehicle parameters, wherein the association of the estimators is selected in accordance with a physics model for the vehicle behavior.

An electronic mechanical braking method for an intelligent vehicle, a new energy vehicle, or a traditional automobile includes obtaining status information of a first control unit for performing braking control on a vehicle, where the status information is indicates whether the first control unit works normally, and when the status information indicates that the first control unit cannot work normally, performing the braking control on the vehicle using a second control unit.