It is advantageous for a vehicle to detect road wetness or related environmental conditions. This is particularly true for self-driving vehicles, which can then adjust the manner of automated operation of the vehicle to increase safety by reducing speed, braking earlier, adjusting internal estimates of road traction parameters, or adjusting autonomous operation in some other manner. It is difficult to directly measure road wetness (e.g., using spectroscopy or other methods directed at the road surface), however, it is possible to indirectly estimate road wetness based on road noise audio signals detected via one or more microphones disposed on the vehicle. The location of the microphones, the type of post-processing applied to the audio signals, or other factors can be adapted to increase the useful road wetness-related content of such audio signals while reducing the presence of engine noise, road noise, or other confounding signals.

This on-vehicle communication apparatus is configured to communicate with another on-vehicle communication apparatus by using one differential signal line, and includes: a high-band communication unit configured to generate a high-band signal including communication information and output the high-band signal to the differential signal line; and a low-band communication unit configured to generate a direct-current signal or a low-band signal and to output the direct-current signal or the low-band signal to the differential signal line.

A vehicle control system for a vehicle may include a controller, a single pedal and a torque control module. The controller may be operably coupled to components and/or sensors of the vehicle to receive information indicative of operational intent of an operator of the vehicle and information indicative of vehicle status. The single pedal may be configured to provide the information indicative of operational intent. The torque control module may be configured to generate both a propulsive torque request and a braking torque request based on the information indicative of the operational intent and the information indicative of vehicle status.

A turning control system of a vehicle includes: a database storing road information; a sensor part to detect a steering angle of a vehicle, a wheel speed of the vehicle, whether the vehicle is accelerated, whether the vehicle is braking, and whether a speed gear of the vehicle is shifted; and a controller that determines whether the vehicle enters a turning section based on one or more pieces of the information detected by the sensor part and the road information stored in the database. In particular, when the vehicle is entering the turning section, the controller sets a target speed of the vehicle and controls a speed of the vehicle to be decelerated to the set target speed.

The disclosure relates to a scintillator material for a radiation detector. In an embodiment, the scintillator material can include a crystalline alkaline-earth metal halide comprising at least one alkaline-earth metal selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, said alkaline-earth metal halide being doped with at least one dopant that activates the scintillation thereof other than Sm.sup.2+, and co-doped with Sm.sup.2+, said alkaline-earth metal halide comprising at least one halogen selected from Br, Cl, I.

The invention relates to an output controller for an engine control for an engine system comprising an internal combustion engine and in electric generator coupled to the internal combustion engine; a computer device which is designed to receive a mechanical target output for the engine system and a maximally permissible rotational speed for the generator and to calculate a target rotational speed for the electric generator and an output torque for the internal combustion engine on the basis of the target output and the maximally permissible rotational speed; an inertia compensating device which is designed to calculate a torque transmitted to a shaft of the generator by a mass moment of inertia of the internal combustion engine on the basis of a change of the target rotational speed for the electric generator and to calculate a target torque for the internal combustion engine on the basis of the transmitted torque and the calculated output torque of the internal combustion engine; and an efficiency calculating device which is designed to calculate a degree of efficiency of the engine system on the basis of the target rotational speed for the electric generator, the calculated output torque of the internal combustion engine, a battery voltage and a generator current of a battery of the engine system, and the calculated target torque for the internal combustion engine and to adapt the value for the mechanical target output, which is supplied to the first computer device, on the basis of the calculated degree of efficiency. The invention further relates to an engine controller and to an engine system.

A system may receive head pose indications determined according to movement data from a motion sensor of an optical head-mounted display worn by a vehicle driver, determine, according to the head pose indications, driver activity characteristics indicative of a history of movement of the head of the driver, and send the driver activity characteristics to a driver-aware vehicle system configured to adjust driver notification based on the driver activity characteristics. The system may also receive raw movement data from a motion sensor of an optical head-mounted display worn on a head of a vehicle driver, compute head velocity data based on the raw movement data, compute head displacement data based on the head velocity data, and update head pose indications indicative of head positioning upon determining that the head displacement data exceeds a predetermined threshold displacement.

A system and a method are configured to control a traction force of a vehicle, for example, an electrified vehicle. The system includes wheel speed sensors mounted on drive wheels, respectively, of the vehicle to measure a drive wheel speed, a disturbance observer for extracting a primary disturbance by comparing an actual vehicle behavior based on a required torque with a vehicle behavior estimated based on the drive wheel speed using a vehicle behavior model in an acceleration situation of the vehicle, a filter for extracting a secondary disturbance in a preset frequency range from the primary disturbance, a compensator for calculating a compensation torque for cancelling the secondary disturbance, a hysteresis circuit for determining whether to compensate for the required torque based on the compensation torque, and a calculator for calculating a compensated required torque using the required torque and the compensation torque.

A vehicle and a method of controlling turning thereof are provided. The turning control method of a vehicle includes calculating first compensation torque based on a lateral acceleration variation during turning, determining first compensated demanded torque by applying the first compensation torque to demanded torque, determining second compensation torque for preventing wheel slip of a driving wheel based on the first compensated demanded torque and an actual vehicle behavior, and determining second compensated demanded torque input to a driving source controller by applying the second compensation torque to the first compensated demanded torque.

A method for controlling driving force of a vehicle includes determining a natural frequency of vehicle suspension pitch motion according to characteristics of a suspension device of the vehicle, providing a filter configured for removing or passing a natural frequency component of the vehicle suspension pitch motion to a control unit of the vehicle, determining, by the control unit, a required driving force command based on vehicle driving information collected during vehicle driving, determining, by the control unit, a final front wheel driving force command and a final rear wheel driving force command through a filtering process using the filter from the determined required driving force command, and controlling, by the control unit, a driving force applied to a front wheel and a rear wheel of the vehicle by a driving device for driving the vehicle according to the determined final front wheel driving force command and the determined final rear wheel driving force command.