Control system and method which is adapted for use in a motor vehicle and intended to effect an at least semi-autonomous driving operation of the motor vehicle by means of assigned actuators on the basis of environmental data which are obtained from one or more environment sensors assigned to the motor vehicle, and wherein the control system is adapted and intended to detect a failure of a conventional steering system of the motor vehicle and attempt a change of direction of the vehicle, which corresponds to a desired steering angle, from current driving parameters by means of matched acceleration and/or deceleration interventions at individual wheel drives or wheel brakes, respectively, of the vehicle.

In a drive assist system, a map data acquiring section acquires at least one of a driver's operation ability and a load of a vehicle. An adjustment section determines an assist control amount as a control parameter of drive assist for the vehicle so that a degree of the driver's operation is increased according to reduction of the driver's operation ability or increasing of the load of the vehicle. An assist control amount calculation section transmits the assist control amount to a steering motor and a notification section so as to execute the drive assist for the vehicle.

The disclosure relates to a method for generating a reference trajectory within a lane for a vehicle. The method comprises receiving at least one vehicle current state parameter describing a current state of the vehicle (S11). The current state of the vehicle comprises at least a current position of the vehicle. Furthermore, a destination parameter describing a destination to be reached by the vehicle (S12), and at least one route parameter describing a route for reaching the destination (S13) are received. Moreover, the method comprises estimating a power loss being caused when traveling from the current position of the vehicle to the destination (S14). The reference trajectory within the lane is determined such that it minimizes the power loss and leads to the destination (S15). Additionally, a method for operating a vehicle is presented. According to this method, a reference trajectory is generated in accordance with the above method (S21) and at least one control signal is provided for controlling a motion of the vehicle along the reference trajectory (S22). Furthermore, a data processing apparatus, a vehicle and a computer-readable medium are presented.

A method for controlling motion of a vehicle, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining input information on a vector related to the velocity of said vehicle; computing repeatably a future trajectory of said vehicle based on said input information and trial torques to be applied to at least one wheel of said vehicle for optimizing said future trajectory in view of a target vehicle motion, thereby obtaining target trial torques; and applying the obtained target trial torques to the at least one wheel for controlling the motion of said vehicle.

The present disclosure pertains to a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Aspects of the present disclosure provide a UAV that includes at least four arms, each configured with a co-axial pair of contra rotating propellers, wherein each propeller has capability of rotating reversibly with associated reversal of direction of thrust, and an autopilot control system that controls rotational direction and speed of the at least four co-axial pairs of propellers to maintain yaw stability, roll stability and pitch stability of the UAV, wherein in an event of failure of any one co-axial pair out of the at least four co-axial pairs of propellers, the autopilot control system reverses direction of rotation and thereby direction of thrust of at least one propeller of any functional pair.

Path generation apparatus configured to generate target travel path of vehicle, includes: external sensor mounted on vehicle and configured to detect external situation centered on advancing direction of vehicle; and electronic control unit including processor and memory coupled to processor. Electronic control unit is configured to perform: recognizing travel lane where vehicle travels based on external situation detected by external sensor; deriving first function representing travel path along center of travel lane; calculating curvature radius of travel lane; determining offset amount to be offset inward in turning direction from center of travel lane based on curvature radius; and deriving second function representing target travel path of vehicle that has been offset based on first function and offset amount.

A method of maintaining stability of a motor vehicle having a first axle, a second axle, and a steering actuator configured to steer the first axle includes determining localization and heading of the vehicle. The method also includes determining a current side-slip angle of the second axle and setting a maximum side-slip angle of the second axle using the friction coefficient at the vehicle and road surface interface. The method additionally includes predicting when the maximum side-slip angle would be exceeded using the localization, heading, and determined current side-slip angle as inputs to a linear computational model. The method also includes updating the model using the prediction of when the maximum side-slip angle would be exceeded to determine impending instability of the vehicle. Furthermore, the method includes correcting for the impending instability using the updated model and the maximum side-slip angle via modifying a steering angle of the first axle.

Systems and methods use cameras to provide autonomous navigation features. In one implementation, a method for navigating a user vehicle may include acquiring, using at least one image capture device, a plurality of images of an area in a vicinity of the user vehicle; determining from the plurality of images a first lane constraint on a first side of the user vehicle and a second lane constraint on a second side of the user vehicle opposite to the first side of the user vehicle; enabling the user vehicle to pass a target vehicle if the target vehicle is determined to be in a lane different from the lane in which the user vehicle is traveling; and causing the user vehicle to abort the pass before completion of the pass, if the target vehicle is determined to be entering the lane in which the user vehicle is traveling.

A method for detecting a standstill of a vehicle includes detecting the standstill of the vehicle using at least one sensor, and, when the standstill is detected using the at least one sensor, carrying out a test routine for checking the standstill of the vehicle. The test routine uses at least one signal from at least one rate-of-rotation sensor as an input value. The method further includes rejecting the detected standstill of the vehicle when the at least one signal from the at least one rate-of-rotation sensor indicates that there is no standstill of the vehicle.

A lane change support device includes a control unit configured to execute lane change control for enabling a vehicle to automatically change lanes from a lane in which the vehicle is traveling to an adjacent lane. The control unit counts a holding time for which an operation part that is operated to a predetermined operation position to start the lane change control is continuously held at the operation position, starts the lane change control when the counted holding time reaches a predetermined threshold time, and calculates a proficiency level of a driver of the vehicle for an operation of the lane change support device during execution of the lane change control and sets the threshold time to be used for a successive lane change control based on the proficiency level.