52nd week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 22 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210402970 | METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A PARKING BRAKE FOR A VEHICLE, AND PARKING BRAKE SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE - A method for controlling a parking brake for a vehicle, including: reading in a request signal which represents a requested activation of the parking brake, and travel data of the vehicle, wherein the parking brake has at least one spring mechanism and is assigned to at least one axle of the vehicle; and generating an activation signal, for activating the parking brake, using the request signal and the travel data, wherein the activation signal brings about pulsed activation of the parking brake for an adjustable time period, to control the parking brake. Also described are a related control apparatus, a parking brake apparatus, and a computer readable medium. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402971 | VALVE ASSEMBLY AND PRESSURE CONTROL METHOD - A valve assembly for providing pressure control at an output port, including: an input port and the output port; a pressure sink; a first valve with a first control connection; a second valve with a second control connection, in which the first valve and the second valve are arranged in series between the input port and the pressure sink and between which the output port branches off; a first control valve to connect the first control connection to the input port or vents the first control connection in a controllable manner; and a second control valve to connect the first control connection to the output port or vents the first control connection in a controllable manner. Also described are a related anti-lock braking system, a commercial vehicle, and a method. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402972 | MONITORING MACHINE BRAKE PERFORMANCE - Monitoring the brake performance of a brake system of a machine and a control systems for performing such monitoring. The machine's brake system is monitored by detecting a brake engagement for decelerating the machine. When a brake engagement is detected, a parasitic loss decelerating the machine during the brake engagement is determined. The parasitic loss is used to predict deceleration of the machine during the brake engagement Brake performance of the brake system of the machine is processed from the predicted deceleration. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402973 | BRAKE CONTROL - An apparatus including a controller configured to generate a first indication for a vehicle braking system depending upon an oxidation state of a wheel brake of the vehicle is disclosed. Also disclosed is a braking system including a controller configured to receive a first indication, the first indication having been generated depending upon an oxidation state of a wheel brake of a vehicle and control the operation of the brake based on the first indication. Also disclosed is a method of controlling at least one brake of an aircraft, and an aircraft including the apparatus, the braking system and a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of a wheel brake of the aircraft and to transmit the temperature measurement to the apparatus. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402974 | HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A hybrid electric vehicle control mode includes receiving traffic light information including signal information and distance information of a traffic light ahead under an EV mode entry condition. The method includes predicting the duration of the EV mode based on the received traffic light information, predicting the temperature of a coolant in the EV mode according to the predicted duration of the EV mode, and comparing the predicted temperature of the coolant with a reference temperature at which a full automatic temperature control (FATC) unit requests starting of an engine. The EV mode is entered when the predicted temperature of the coolant is greater than the reference temperature. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402975 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSORY LOAD ADJUSTMENT TO REDUCE ENGINE NOISE - Systems and methods are provided for controlling a hybrid powertrain of a hybrid vehicle, and may include: determining a value of a drive request for a combustion engine of the hybrid vehicle; determining electrical loading on batteries of the hybrid vehicle; adjusting operation of an accessory of the hybrid vehicle to reduce the electrical load of that accessory on the batteries of the hybrid vehicle when the drive request value is above a determined drive request threshold amount and the electrical loading on batteries of the hybrid vehicle is above a power loading threshold; and directing at least some of the power saved by adjusting operation of the accessory from the batteries of the hybrid vehicle to a drive motor of the hybrid vehicle to provide motive force for the vehicle. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402976 | Method of Controlling Generator for Vehicle - A method of controlling a generator for a vehicle includes calculating a current charging amount and a target charging amount of a battery, estimating regenerative energy of the battery based on predicted vehicle travel information, and determining whether a road section in which the vehicle travels is a regenerative braking section based on the predicted vehicle travel information and vehicle position information. The generator and the battery are controlled so the generator maximally charges the battery when the road section in which the vehicle travels is the regenerative braking section and so the energy of the battery and a charging amount of the battery is the target charging amount when the road section in which the vehicle travels is not the regenerative braking section. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402977 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRACTION FORCE OF ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE - 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. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402978 | CONTROL METHOD OF HYBRID VEHICLE AND CONTROL DEVICE OFHYBRID VEHICLE - Provided is a control method of a hybrid vehicle provided with an engine, a power-generation motor generator, and a travel motor generator. The hybrid vehicle has a series hybrid mode in which the power-generation motor generator is driven by the engine to generate electric power and the travel motor generator is driven by the electric power generated by the power-generation motor generator. The hybrid vehicle has a filter configured to collect a particulate matter in exhaust gas from the engine. The control method includes performing an operation limitation of the engine based on a loaded amount of the particulate matter in the filter. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402979 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND VEHICLE - A vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle includes: an operation detection unit that detects an operation performed on the vehicle by a user; a power supply control unit that controls execution of power supply from a first battery involved in vehicle traveling to an auxiliary load powered by a second battery that is different from the first battery, with a start switch of the vehicle being off; and a prohibition control unit that prohibits the power supply to the auxiliary load by the power supply control unit, in response to the operation of the user detected by the operation detection unit. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402980 | System and Method for Data-Driven Reference Generation - A controller is provided for operating a system under admissible states. The controller includes an interface configured to connect the system storing a set of measured system states, a set of reference inputs and a set of system parameters in a storage arranged inside or outside the system, a memory storing measured system states, admissible reference inputs and admissible parameter sets and computer-executable programs including a parameter estimator and an adaptive reference governor (ARG), a processor, in connection with the memory. The processor is configured to perform the ARG and the parameter estimator. The parameter estimator extracts a pair of a reference input and the system state and compute a system parameter estimate based on the reference input and system state. The ARG is configured to update the reference input and compute a parameter-robust constraint admissible set based on the updated reference input and the system states, wherein the ARG generates and transmits a reference input to the system based on the parameter-robust constraint admissible set. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402981 | VIRTUAL VEHICLE INTERFACE - Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to virtual vehicle interface that allows a user to adjust a vehicle's drive settings to make the driving experience more customized. For example, a user may select a desired response time, sensitivity, handling, or other criteria through a user interface of a mobile device. When the mobile device is connected to the vehicle, the vehicle adopts the user's specified settings to provide a customized driving experience. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402982 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING TORQUE INDUCED YAW IN A VEHICLE - Systems and methods are provided herein for operating a vehicle in a vehicle yaw mode. In response to initiating vehicle yaw mode, the system engages an open-loop mode, that provides open-loop forward torque to the outer wheels of the vehicle and open-loop backward torque to the inner wheels of the vehicle until a sufficient number of wheels are slipping. In response to determining that a sufficient number of wheels are slipping, engaging a closed-loop mode. While operating in the closed-loop mode, one or both of the wheel rotation and vehicle yaw rate are monitored to adjust the torques provided to the wheels of the vehicle to control the vehicle yaw rate. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402983 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE - An apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes: a sensor that obtains vehicle surrounding environment information and vehicle driving information; and a controller that determines whether an engagement of an Electronic Parking Brake (EPB) is possible based on the vehicle driving information, performs control for preventing a slip based on the vehicle surrounding environment information upon determining that the engagement of the EPB is impossible, calculates a steering angle for preventing the slip, transmits the steering angle to a portable terminal, receives a steering control command from the portable terminal, and controls steering based on the received steering control command. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402984 | INDEPENDENT CONTROL OF VEHICLE WHEELS - An over actuated system capable of controlling wheel parameters, such as speed (e.g., by torque and braking), steering angles, caster angles, camber angles, and toe angles, of wheels in an associated vehicle. The system may determine the associated vehicle is in a rollover state and adjust wheel parameters to prevent vehicle rollover. Additionally, the system may determine a driving state and dynamically adjust wheel parameters to optimize driving, including, for example, cornering and parking. Such a system may also dynamically detect wheel misalignment and provide alignment and/or corrective driving solutions. Further, by utilizing degenerate solutions for driving, the system may also estimate tire-surface parameterization data for various road surfaces and make such estimates available for other vehicles via a network. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402985 | Vehicle Control Device - Provided is a vehicle control device that can reduce discomfort of an occupant during parking control. The vehicle control device 10 includes a route calculator 11 that calculates a parking route of a vehicle, a travel controller 12 that makes the vehicle travel along the parking route, and a route selector 13 that selects either an original parking route or a new parking route when the vehicle traveling along the parking route stops at a stop position before a turn-back position, the new parking route being calculated at the stop position. The travel controller 12 makes the vehicle travel from the stop position along the parking route selected by the route selector 13. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402986 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - The present invention sets an appropriate parking route according to a surrounding situation. A vehicle control device which controls traveling of a vehicle includes: a surrounding environment recognition unit which recognizes a surrounding environment of an own vehicle, detects a parking space, sets a target parking position and a travelable space; and a vehicle control unit which guides and controls the own vehicle to the target parking position in the travelable space. The vehicle control unit guides and controls the own vehicle to the target parking position without traveling the own vehicle in a space behind the target parking position. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402987 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processor includes an edge detection portion that scans an image and detects, as an edge, an arrangement of pixels in which brightness value difference or color parameter difference between the pixels is equal to or greater than a threshold; a grouping portion that groups the detected edge based on the edge length, a distance between endpoints of the edges, and an angle between the edges; a determination portion that determines the grouped edges as a dashed line edge group when a pattern in which the brightness value difference or color parameter difference between the pixels is detected matches a predetermined pattern; a correction portion that performs a linear approximation process on the dashed line edge group to correct a coordinate value of an endpoint of the dashed line edge; and a parking frame setting portion that sets a parking frame using the corrected dashed line edge. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402988 | AUTOMATED PARKING TECHNOLOGY - The disclosed technology enables automated parking of an autonomous vehicle. An example method of performing automated parking for a vehicle comprises obtaining, from a plurality of global positioning system (GPS) devices located on or in an autonomous vehicle, a first set of location information that describes locations of multiple points on the autonomous vehicle, where the first set of location information are associated with a first position of the autonomous vehicle, determining, based on the first set of location information and a location of the parking area, a trajectory information that describes a trajectory for the autonomous vehicle to be driven from the first position of the autonomous vehicle to a parking area, and causing the autonomous vehicle to be driven along the trajectory to the parking area by causing operation of one or more devices located in the autonomous vehicle based on at least the trajectory information. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402989 | AUTONOMOUS VALET PARKING SYSTEM, AUTONOMOUS VALET PARKING PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An autonomous valet parking system includes a terminal device, a vehicle, and a server device installed to a parking lot. When receiving a temporary key request from a server device, a terminal device verifies the request, generates a temporary key, and transmits the temporary key to a vehicle and the server device. The server device determines a target parking position of the vehicle, and transmits, to the vehicle, the temporary key and target position information. The vehicle verifies the temporary keys from the terminal device and the server device, generates a drive plan including a route to the target parking position, and transmits the drive plan to the server device. The server device verifies whether the drive plan is available, and notifies the vehicle. When the drive plan is verified to be available by the server device, the vehicle executes autonomous driving control according to the drive plan. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402990 | ACTIVE ENERGY MANAGEMENT FOR FRONTAL IMPACTS - Various disclosed embodiments include active impact control systems, vehicles with active impact systems, and active impact systems. In an illustrative embodiment, an active impact control system includes: at least one actuator couplable to a crush structure of a vehicle and couplable to a portion of structure of a vehicle; at least one sensor configured to sense impact with an object; and a controller configured to receive information from the at least one sensor and to determine a location and angle of impact based on the information received from the sensor, the controller being further configured to selectively signal the actuator to cause the crush structure to move relative to the vehicle structure. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402991 | Object Trajectory Association and Tracking - Systems, devices, and methods for trajectory association and tracking are provided. A method can include method can include obtaining input data indicative of a respective trajectory for each of one or more first objects for a first time step and input data indicative of a respective trajectory for each of one or more second objects for a second time step subsequent to the first time step. The method can include generating, using a machine-learned model, a temporally-consistent trajectory for at least one of the one or more first objects or the one or more second objects based at least in part on the input data and determining a third predicted trajectory for the at least one of the one or more first objects or the one or more second objects for at least the second time step based at least in part on the temporally-consistent trajectory. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402992 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SETTING PLANNED TRAJECTORY - An apparatus for setting a planned trajectory includes a processor configured to identify a travel lane on which a vehicle is traveling, detect, as a specific section, a section lacking at least one of left and right lane lines of the travel lane of the vehicle in a planned travel section, set at least one candidate of a planned trajectory to be traveled by the vehicle in the specific section, the at least one candidate including a candidate based on an existing one of the lane lines or a road edge, and set, of the set candidate, a candidate having a minimum variation in curvature or a minimum offset distance in a direction perpendicular to a travel direction of the vehicle at parts connected to the planned trajectory in sections ahead of and behind the specific section as the planned trajectory of the specific section. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402993 | VEHICLE LAUNCH FROM STANDSTILL UNDER ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONROL - In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a vehicle is provided that includes a body, a drive system, and a control system for controlling the adaptive cruise control functionality for the vehicle. The drive system is disposed within the body, and has adaptive cruise control functionality. The control system includes: one or more sensors disposed onboard the vehicle and configured to obtain sensor data for monitoring a driver of the vehicle while the vehicle is stopped during adaptive cruise control operation while a target vehicle in front of the vehicle has stopped; and a processor coupled to the one or more sensors and configured to provide instructions for automatically resuming movement of the vehicle, when the target vehicle resumes movement, based on the monitoring of the driver of the vehicle. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402994 | PLATOONING CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - A platooning control method includes: determining whether a preceding vehicle, which is located in front of a host vehicle, has entered a slope section when a plurality of vehicles are moving on a road, acquiring longitudinal distance information between the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle using a Dead-Reckoning (DR) sensor of the host vehicle upon determining that the preceding vehicle has entered the slope section, and performing platooning control by the host vehicle with the plurality of vehicles in the slope section using the longitudinal distance information acquired by the DR sensor and speed information. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402995 | Platooning Controller, System Including the Same, and Braking Control Method Thereof - A platooning controller includes a processor configured to share information about a first platooning vehicle of a group of platooning vehicles with other platooning vehicles of the group of platooning vehicles when a brake of the first platooning vehicle breaks down during platooning and to perform braking control, and a storage configured to store data and an algorithm for platooning and braking control by the processor. The processor is configured to rearrange the group of platooning vehicles depending on a location where the first platooning vehicle is arranged in a platoon line, to decelerate the first platooning vehicle and a second platooning vehicle in front of the first platooning vehicle, and to center the first platooning vehicle and the second platooning vehicle to perform the braking control. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402996 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - A vehicle control device executes a warning control for a driver when the driver is in an abnormal state, and executes a stop control for stopping an own vehicle when the abnormal state is continued for a predetermined time threshold or more from a time point at which the warning control is started. In a first period from a time point at which the warning control is started to a time point at which the stop control is started, the vehicle control device determines whether there is another vehicle behind the own vehicle, and when the control device determines that there is no other vehicle behind the own vehicle, a specific deceleration control that temporarily decelerates the own vehicle is executed. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402997 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING VEHICLE BEHAVIOR - A system for evaluating behavior of vehicles is provided. The system includes an input device configured to receive a request for evaluation of behavior of vehicles, one or more processors, one or more memory modules communicatively coupled to the one or more processors; and machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules. The machine readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to: collect log files related to vehicles from a plurality of sources, a format of log files from one source being different from a format of log files from another source, extract one or more parameters for the vehicles from the collected log files based on the request for evaluation, and evaluate behavior of the vehicles based on the extracted one or more parameters, wherein the one or more parameters include time series and time intervals. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402998 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - A control device detects an object that is present in a traveling direction of a road on which a mobile object is traveling, controls a behavior of the mobile object, acquires an operation state of a turn signal, causes, when a degree of proximity between the mobile object and the detected object is less than a reference, the mobile object to move in a direction intersecting the traveling direction when a predetermined time has elapsed from starting of operating the turn signal obtained from the operation state of the turn signal, and causes, when the degree of proximity is equal to or greater than the reference, the mobile object to move in the direction intersecting the traveling direction before the turn signal is operated or before a predetermined time has elapsed from starting of operating the turn signal. | 2021-12-30 |
20210402999 | LANE CHANGE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND LANE CHANGE METHOD USING THE SAME - A lane change assistance system includes: at least one sensor that detects sensing information including a first vehicle speed of a host vehicle, a second vehicle speed of a surrounding vehicle around the host vehicle, and a distance between the host vehicle and the surrounding vehicle; a lane change controller that identifies a lane change possible condition based on the sensing information, calculates an expected lane change time, and generates a lane change path for the expected lane change time; a steering device that controls lateral movement of the host vehicle based on the lane change path; and an acceleration and deceleration device that controls longitudinal movement of the host vehicle based on the lane change path. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403000 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM, VEHICLE LEARNING DEVICE, AND VEHICLE LEARNING METHOD - A vehicle control device includes a processor and memory. The memory stores relation-defining data for defining a relation between a state of a vehicle and an action variable that is a variable relating to operations of a transmission installed in the vehicle. The processor is configured to execute acquisition processing, operation processing, reward calculation processing, updating processing, counting processing, and limiting processing. The processor is configured to output the relation-defining data updated so that an expected income is increased when the transmission is operated following the relation-defining data, based on an updating map. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403001 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING LANE DATA USING VEHICLE TRAJECTORY SAMPLING - Examples disclosed herein may involve a computing system that is operable to (i) identify a set of vehicle trajectories that are associated with a segment of a road network, (ii) identify a first cluster of sampling points between the identified set of vehicle trajectories and a first sampling position along the segment, wherein the first cluster has an associated geospatial position and is inferred to be associated with one given lane of the segment, (iii) identify a subset of vehicle trajectories in the identified set that are inferred to be associated with the given lane between the first sampling position and a second sampling position along the segment, (iv) identify a second cluster of sampling points between the identified subset of vehicle trajectories and the second sampling position, wherein the second cluster has an associated geospatial position, and (v) determine a geospatial geometry of the given lane. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403002 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DRIVING OF VEHICLE - An apparatus for controlling driving of a vehicle includes: an input device that receives an input signal corresponding to an operation of a driver; and a controller that sets a weight to a careless state of the driver based on a separation distance between the driver and the input device operated by the driver, a spaced angle, and a scheme of operating the input device, and calculates a braking application time point based on the weight. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403003 | Appearance and Movement Based Model for Determining Risk of Micro Mobility Users - The systems and methods disclosed herein provide a risk prediction system that uses trained machine learning models to make predictions that a VRU will take a particular action. The system first receives, in a video stream, an image depicting a VRU operating a micro-mobility vehicle and extract the depictions from the image. The extraction process may be determined by bounding box classifiers trained to identify various VRUs and micro-mobility vehicles. The system feeds the extracted depictions to machine learning models and receives, as an output, risk profiles for the VRU and the micro-mobility vehicle. The risk profile may include data associated with the VRU/micro-mobility vehicle determined based on classifications of the VRU and the micro-mobility vehicles. The system may then generate a prediction that the VRU operating the micro-mobility vehicle will take a particular action based on the risk profile. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403004 | DRIVER MONITORING SYSTEM (DMS) DATA MANAGEMENT - Techniques are disclosed to address issues related to the use of personalized training data to supplement machine learning trained models for Driver Monitoring System (DMS), and the accompanying mechanisms to maintain confidentiality of this personalized training data. The techniques disclosed herein also address issues related to maintaining transparency with respect to collected sensor data used in a DMS. Additionally, the techniques disclosed herein facilitate the generation of a digital representation of a driver for use as supplemental training data for the DMS machine learning trained models, which allow for DMS algorithms to be tailored to individual users. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403005 | EVALUATING LOCATING MEASUREMENTS OF A SURROUNDINGS SENSOR FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - A method for evaluating locating measurements of a surroundings sensor for a motor vehicle. The method includes: associating locating measurements with an object described by an estimated object state, for the locating measurements in each case an association probability being determined for the association of the locating measurement with the object; estimating instantaneous state parameters of the object, including an adaptation of the state parameters to the locating measurements associated with the object, weightings of the locating measurements associated with the object being taken into consideration during the adaptation, for the locating measurements in each case the weighting being dependent on the determined association probability for the association of the particular locating measurement with the object; and transferring the estimated instantaneous state parameters of the object to a state estimator for updating the estimated state of the object. A sensor system is also described. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403006 | DYNAMIC ACCELERATOR RESPONSE MANAGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE - An apparatus includes a position circuit structured to monitor a position of an accelerator of a vehicle and a speed circuit structured to monitor a speed of the vehicle. The position corresponds with an associated response of a prime mover of the vehicle. The associated response includes at least one of a torque output and a power output of the prime mover. The apparatus further includes a response management circuit structured to receive an indication regarding the position of the accelerator and the speed of the vehicle; determine that the indication satisfies a remapping condition, the remapping condition including at least one of a creep condition, an obstacle condition, a deceleration condition, and a reverse condition; and dynamically remap the associated response of the prime mover of the vehicle based on the position of the accelerator in response to the indication satisfying the remapping condition. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403007 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECALIBRATION OF AN UNCALIBRATED SENSOR - Provided herein is a system and method for determining whether a sensor is calibrated and recalibrating of an uncalibrated sensor. The system comprises a sensor system comprising a sensor and an analysis engine configured to determine whether the sensor is uncalibrated. The system further comprises an error handling system configured to determine whether to perform a recalibration in response to the sensor system determining that the sensor is uncalibrated. The error handling system further comprises a recalibration engine configured to perform a recalibration. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403008 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING A TRAJECTORY OF A TARGET VEHICLE IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF A VEHICLE - A method for predicting a trajectory of a target vehicle in an environment of a vehicle. The method includes the steps of a) capturing states of the target vehicle, capturing states of further vehicle objects in the environment of the vehicle and capturing road markings by a camera-based capture device; b) preprocessing the data obtained in step a), wherein outliers are removed and missing states are calculated; c) calculating an estimated trajectory by a physical model on the basis of the data preprocessed in step b); d) calculating a driver-behavior-based trajectory on the basis of the data preprocessed in step b); and e) combining the trajectories calculated in steps c) and d) to form a predicted trajectory of the target vehicle. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403009 | VEHICLE BREAKAGE HANDLING METHOD AND DEVICE IN AUTOMATED VEHICLE AND HIGHWAY SYSTEM (AVHS) - Disclosed is a method for monitoring a sharing vehicle by a server in an Automated Vehicle and Highway System (AVHS). According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method may include generating initial state data and operating state data of the sharing vehicle, determining whether the sharing vehicle is broken by comparing the initial state data and the operating state data, and transmitting a feedback to the sharing vehicle based on the determination. In doing so, a situation where a breakage occurs in the vehicle may be recognized, expense to be paid by a user may be reduced, and unnecessary conflicts between an owner of the vehicle and the user may be reduced. One or more of an autonomous vehicle, a user terminal, and a server of the present disclosure may be linked to an Artificial Intelligence (AI) module, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) robot, an Augmented Reality (AR) device, a Virtual Reality (VR) device, a 5G service-related device, etc. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403010 | VEHICLE LOAD SHEDDING - A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to determine an action for a vehicle based on an identified risk condition, to determine a minimum time for performing the action, and based on data including a vehicle battery state of charge, an outdoor temperature, and a vehicle mode of operation, to determine an available electrical power for performing the action. The instructions further include instructions to determine maximum permissible electrical energy discharge rate based on the minimum time for performing the action and the determined available electrical power, to determine a load control plan for a plurality of electrical devices in the vehicle based on the maximum permissible electrical energy discharge rate, an electrical load status of the vehicle, and load priority data; and to execute the determined load control plan. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403011 | TESTING METHOD AND DEVICE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM - The present disclosure provides a testing method of an autonomous vehicle. The method includes: acquiring test data about a test site generated during a testing process, wherein the test data includes a corresponding relationship between a current cumulative number of problems monitored during the testing process and a current mileage of the autonomous vehicle; determining a corresponding relationship between a problem monitoring ratio and the current mileage based on the test data, wherein the problem monitoring ratio includes a ratio of the current cumulative number of problems monitored to a total number of problems monitored; and performing fitting on a preset evaluation model based on the corresponding relationship between the problem monitoring ratio and the current mileage, so as to obtain an optimized evaluation model, wherein the optimized evaluation model is configured to evaluate a corresponding relationship between the problem monitoring ratio and a test mileage about the test site. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403012 | METHOD FOR CHECKING AT LEAST ONE DRIVING ENVIRONMENT SENSOR OF A VEHICLE - A method for checking at least one driving environment sensor of a vehicle is provided. The vehicle is located on a digital map, features of stored stationary objects in an environment of the vehicle, which are expected to be recognized by the driving environment sensor, are identified in the digital map and the environment of the vehicle is sensed using the driving environment sensor. A degradation of the driving environment sensor is deduced if the features to be recognized according to expectations are not recognized by the driving environment sensor or if features actually recognized by the driving environment sensor deviate strongly from the features to be recognized according to expectations. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403013 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS DRIVING - A method for controlling autonomous driving in a vehicle capable of the autonomous driving may include collecting vehicle travel status information and system status information during the autonomous driving, sensing a failure based on the system status information, identifying normally controllable actuators when sensing the failure, determining a risk degree corresponding to the sensed failure based on the normally controllable actuator information and the vehicle travel status information, determining a safety state based on normally controllable actuator information and the risk degree, and determining a failure safety strategy corresponding to the safety state. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403014 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE LEARNING DEVICE - A vehicle control device includes: a storage device that stores relation-defining data that is data for defining a relation between a state of a vehicle and an action variable; and an executing device configured to acquire the state, operate a drivetrain device based on a value of the action variable, derive a reward such that the reward is larger when the state of the drivetrain device based on the acquired state satisfies a predetermined criterion, perform an updating of the relation-defining data using an updating map, and restrict the updating of the relation-defining data such that an updating amount of the relation-defining data is smaller when the drivetrain device is subject to a predetermined restriction. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403015 | VEHICLE LIGHTING SYSTEM, VEHICLE SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE - A vehicle system is provided in a vehicle that is capable of running in an autonomous driving mode. The vehicle system includes: a sensor configured to acquire detection data indicating a surrounding environment of the vehicle; a generator configured to generate surrounding environment information indicating a surrounding environment of the vehicle, based on the detection data; and a use frequency setting module configured to set a use frequency for the sensor, based on predetermined information related to the vehicle or surrounding environment of the vehicle. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403016 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UPDATES OF ECUS OF VEHICLE - A device and a method for controlling updates of ECUs of a vehicle are provided. A communication device receives a request for associated software updates of electronic control units (ECUs) arranged within a vehicle, and a controller determines whether to start the vehicle based on a state of charge (SOC) of a battery. The controller performs updates of ECUs in a first group in a start on state of the vehicle, and performs updates of ECUs in a second group in a start off state of the vehicle to complete a software update for a function involving the plurality of ECUs. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403017 | SELECTIVELY ENABLE OR DISABLE VEHICLE FEATURES BASED ON DRIVER CLASSIFICATION - A vehicle or a mobile device within or near the vehicle can have multiple sensors to sense biometric features of a user or driver, and electronic circuitry (such as a computing system) can classify the user or driver according to the sensed biometric features. Also, non-biometric factors of the user or driver or of the mobile device of the user or driver can be used to classify the user or driver, e.g., MAC address, RFID, username and password, PIN, etc. Also, factors from interaction with a user interface of the vehicle or the mobile device can be used to classify the user or driver. Such features and factors can be used alone or in combination for the classification, and the classification can use AI (such as an ANN). The vehicle or the mobile device can then selectively enable or disable features of the vehicle based on the classification. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403018 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING REST INFORMATION BASED ON DRIVER REST PATTERN AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method for providing rest information based on a rest pattern of a driver and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. A rest information providing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure determines a fatigue degree and provides rest information to a driver. Here, the rest information is previously analyzed rest information preferred by the driver, and thus vehicle use satisfaction of the driver can be improved. An autonomous vehicle of the present disclosure can be associated with artificial intelligence modules, drones (unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)), robots, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, devices related to 5G service, etc. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403019 | VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - A vehicle control method is disclosed. A vehicle control method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure can determine a drowsy state of a driver through AI processing of state information of the driver acquired from a sensor included in a vehicle. A processor can control a carbon dioxide concentration, a carbon monoxide concentration, a fine dust concentration and cooling efficiency inside the vehicle by causing the outside air to enter the vehicle or circulating the air inside the vehicle upon determining that the driver is in a drowsy state. The processor outputs a second warning and controls driving of the vehicle according to the second warning upon determining that the driver is continuously in the drowsy state. Accordingly, occurrence of accidents due to drowsiness of the driver can be reduced. One or more of an (autonomous vehicle, a user terminal and a server) of the present disclosure can be associated with artificial intelligence modules, drones (unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)), robots, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, devices related to 5G service, etc. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403020 | VEHICULAR CONTROL SYSTEM WITH DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF UNINTENDED MOTION - A vehicular driver assist system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and an electronic control unit (ECU) having an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera. Responsive to processing by the image processor of captured image data, the ECU detects an object in the vicinity of the vehicle. The ECU, responsive to detecting the object, determines movement of the detected object relative to the vehicle. The ECU, responsive to determining movement of the detected object relative to the vehicle, determines a current driving condition of the vehicle. The ECU compares the current driving condition to a current actual speed of the vehicle and determines whether or not the vehicle is moving unintentionally. Responsive to determining that the vehicle is moving unintentionally, the system slows the vehicle or generates an alert to a driver of the vehicle. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403021 | VEHICLE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - A vehicle reducing unease of a driver during driver assistance, provided with a display device configured to display a surrounding vehicle together with a host vehicle at a relative position calculated by an object recognition device, display a mark showing that a lane change is planned to be performed at a predetermined space for performing a lane change in a destination driving lane which is a destination for a lane change when an automatic lane change is planned to be performed, and make a position of the mark change in accordance with the relative position of the surrounding vehicle when there is a surrounding vehicle present having an effect on a lane change in the destination driving lane. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403022 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE AND INTELLIGENT COMPUTING APPARATUS CONTROLLING THE VEHICLE - Disclosed are a method for controlling a vehicle and an intelligent computing apparatus for controlling a vehicle. The method for controlling a vehicle includes obtaining state information related to a driver in the vehicle, generating information related to concentration on the basis of the state information related to the driver, and outputting information related to drowsiness prevention on the basis of the information related to concentration, whereby it is possible to prevent driver's concentration from being decreased and it is possible to prevent occurrence of an accident due to carelessness such as decreased concentration of the driver during driving in advance by recognizing a state in which the driver's concentration is significantly decreased and providing information related to drowsiness prevention to increase concentration again. One or more of the vehicle, user terminal, and server of the present invention may be associated with an Artificial Intelligence Intelligenfce module, a robot, an Augmented Reality (AR) device, a Virtual Reality (VR) device, a device associated with a 5G service, or the like. Can be. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403023 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING CUBOIDS FROM LIDAR, MAP AND IMAGE DATA - Systems and methods for operating an autonomous vehicle. The methods comprising: obtaining, by a computing device, a LiDAR dataset; plotting, by a computing device, the LiDAR dataset on a 3D graph to define a 3D point cloud; using, by a computing device, the LiDAR dataset and contents of a vector map to define a cuboid on the 3D graph that encompasses points of the 3D point cloud that are associated with an object in proximity to the vehicle, where the vector map comprises lane information; and using the cuboid to facilitate driving-related operations of the autonomous vehicle. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403024 | HYBRID AUTONOMY SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS AND AUTOMATED DELIVERY VEHICLE - Provided are various systems and processes for improving last-mile delivery of real-time, on-demand orders for perishable goods. In one aspect, a method for operating an autonomous vehicle comprises receiving real-time perception data at a planner module located on the autonomous vehicle, and generating an initial motion plan based on the real-time perception data. The autonomous vehicle is maneuvered along a constrained route based on the initial motion plan without user input. An alert condition is detected from the real-time perception data, and a notification is displayed at an operator device. The notification includes a request for user input to adjust the initial motion plan. User input is received at the planner module and a modified motion plan is generated by adjusting the initial motion plan based on the user input. A virtual representation of objects identified by the AV is locally rendered for display at the operator device. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403025 | METHOD OF SHARING AND USING SENSOR DATA - Sharing sensor data between a first device and a second device comprising obtaining a set of point data from at least one of sensors located in the first device, determining a property data of the subset of point data based on the subset of point data, generating a first sharing data for sharing with the second device based on the property data, transmitting the sharing data to the second device, identifying an occurrence of an event at a first time point, and generating a second sharing data different from the first sharing data. A content of the second sharing data includes at least a portion of the set of point data obtained within a first time period including the first time point. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403026 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 3D MODELING - The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for three-dimensional modeling. The method may include: acquiring coordinate points of obstacles in a surrounding environment of an autonomous driving vehicle in a vehicle coordinate system; determining a position of eyes of a passenger in the autonomous driving vehicle, and establishing an eye coordinate system using the position of the eyes as a coordinate origin; converting the coordinate points of the obstacles in the vehicle coordinate system to coordinate points in the eye coordinate system, and determining a visualization distance between the obstacles in the surrounding environment based on an observation angle of the eyes; and performing three-dimensional modeling of the surrounding environment, based on visualization distance between the coordinate points of the obstacles in the eye coordinate system and the obstacles. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403027 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND VEHICLE - An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit acquires operation information related to driving of a vehicle and position information of the vehicle, generates improvement information on a traveling environment of the vehicle when the control unit determines that the operation information that is acquired has reached a threshold value, the improvement information including the position information when the operation information reaches the threshold value, and provides the improvement information that is generated to a service facility. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403028 | ROUTE SELECTION DEVICE AND METHOD - A route selection device includes a processor configured to identify a position of a lane on which a vehicle is traveling; search for candidate partial routes leading from a current position of the vehicle to a waypoint on a route leading from a start point to a destination, the waypoint being located between the current position and the destination; determine a lane change location where a lane change will be made for each of the candidate partial routes found by searching; and select, as a partial route, a candidate partial route having a minimum total score regarding the lane change location from the candidate partial routes found by searching. The score is weighted depending on the position of the determined lane change location or whether a lane change at the lane change location can be controlled by a travel controller. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403029 | METHOD FOR ASSESSING SAFETY OF THE INTENDED FUNCTIONALITY OF AUTONOMOUS DRIVING BASED ON DAG BLOCK CHAIN, AND DEVICE - A method for assessing Safety Of The Intended Functionality of autonomous driving based on DAG block chain is provided. The method is based on DAG block chain technology and fused with system of the intended functionality, realizing safety assessment of the intended functionality. The intended functionality is objectively assessed based on data. The assessment method, in combination with an in-the-loop test, analyzes the current test data, without relying on a large amount of traditional experience to make judgments. Result of credit assessment of the nodes is taken as a result of safety assessment. Each of hardware or components is analyzed in terms of the safety and reliability, and the result of assessment is relatively complete. A device and a computer-readable storage medium are further provided. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403030 | LASER BASED COMPUTER CONTROLLED TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILER - A computer controlled laser based profiling system for accurate equipment positioning. In one embodiment the profiler is used in combination with a vehicle automated guidance system for guiding a vehicle and equipment secured to a vehicle for removing of road markings. The computer controlled profiler detects the position of one or more grinding, grooving, rumbling heads in the X, Y and Z position. A controller and one or more actuators are manipulated in response to ground markings visible in the field of the laser. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403031 | DISAMBIGUATION OF VEHICLE NAVIGATION ACTIONS - An autonomous vehicle (AV) system may include a memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon. The AV system may include a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to read and execute the computer-readable instructions to perform or control performance of operations. The operations may include receive an instruction text vector representative of a command for an AV provided by a user. The operations may include receive an environment text vector representative of a spatio-temporal feature of an environment of the AV. The operations may include generate a sense set that includes words based on the instruction text vector and the environment text vector. The operations may include compare the words of the sense set to navigational instructions (NIs) within a corpus and identify a NI that corresponds to the words based on the comparison. The operations may also include update a trajectory of the AV based on the NI. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403032 | TWO-LEVEL PATH PLANNING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - Described is a two-level optimal path planning process for autonomous tractor-trailer trucks which incorporates offline planning, online planning, and utilizing online estimation and perception results for adapting a planned path to real-world changes in the driving environment. In one aspect, a method of navigating an autonomous vehicle includes determining, by an online server, a current vehicle state of the autonomous vehicle in a mapped driving area. The method includes receiving, by the online server from an offline path library, a path for the autonomous driving vehicle through the mapped driving area from the current vehicle state to a destination vehicle state, and receiving fixed and moving obstacle information. The method includes adjusting the path to generate an optimized path that avoids the fixed and moving obstacles and ends at a targeted final vehicle state, and navigating the autonomous vehicle based on the optimized path. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403033 | USING SIMULATIONS TO IDENTIFY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BEHAVIORS OF MANUALLY-DRIVEN AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - A simulation may be used to determine a difference between progress of a manually-driven vehicle and progress of a simulated autonomous vehicle. The method includes retrieving log data collected for the manually-driven vehicle driving along a route, generating a plurality of path segments for a portion of the route. The plurality of path segments corresponds to points in a lane that the manually-driven vehicle traveled through on the portion of the route. The method also includes running, using a software of the autonomous vehicle, a simulation of the autonomous vehicle driving along the plurality of path segments, extracting metrics from the log data and the simulation, and determining the difference between a first progress of the manually-driven vehicle and a second progress of the simulated autonomous vehicle based on the metrics. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403034 | Systems and Methods for Optimizing Trajectory Planner Based on Human Driving Behaviors - In one embodiment, a computing system of a vehicle may receive vehicle driving data associated with a vehicle driving in an environment and detected environment data associated with the environment. The system may generate a reference trajectory of the vehicle driving in the environment based on the vehicle driving data. The system may determine driving constraints associated with the environment based on the detected environmental data. The system may generate a trajectory of the vehicle based on the driving constraints. The system may determine a difference in at least one parameter associated with the trajectory relative to at least one corresponding parameter associated with the reference trajectory. The system may adjust weight values associated with cost functions of the trajectory based on the difference between the at least one parameter associated with the trajectory and the corresponding parameter associated with the reference trajectory. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403035 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine mission data associated with a scenario encountered during operation of a vehicle. A first evaluation of the scenario can be determined by evaluating the mission data using a simulation behavior model based on simulated driving data. A second evaluation of the scenario can be determined by evaluating the mission data using an observed behavior model based on observed driving data. Vehicle performance of an autonomy system of the vehicle can be evaluated based on the first evaluation and the second evaluation. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403036 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING AND SEARCHING SCENARIO INFORMATION - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive a search query including one or more high-level primitives. One or more low-level parameters describing behavior of at least one agent associated with at least one value that satisfies at least one annotation rule associated with the one or more high-level primitives can be determined. In response to determining that the at least one value satisfies the at least one annotation rule, one or more scenarios associated with the one or more low-level parameters that satisfy the at least one annotation rule can be identified by using the one or more high-level primitives included in the search query. Information describing the one or more identified scenarios in response to the search query can be provided. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403037 | ARITHMETIC OPERATION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES - An automotive arithmetic system includes a main arithmetic device that determines a target motion of a motor vehicle so that the motor vehicle travel on a route generated based on a vehicle external environment estimated using deep learning based on an output from a vehicle external information acquisition device; and a backup arithmetic device that determines a backup target motion for causing the motor vehicle to travel on a travel route which is generated based on the output from the vehicle external information acquisition device and which the traveling motor vehicle takes until the motor vehicle stops at a stop position that satisfies a preset criterion. The automotive arithmetic system outputs a backup control signal to actuators in preference to a control signal when the main arithmetic device fails. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403038 | ARITHMETIC OPERATION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES - An automotive arithmetic system includes a main arithmetic unit that generates a travel route using deep learning based on an output from a vehicle external information acquisition device; an auxiliary arithmetic unit that generates a rule-based travel route in a free space without using deep learning; a safe route generation unit that generates a safe route, which is a route that the motor vehicle takes until the motor vehicle stops at a safe stop position; and an override processing unit that prioritizes one of the travel route generated by the main arithmetic unit, the rule-based travel route generated by the auxiliary arithmetic unit, or the safe route generated by the safe route generation unit, and determines a target motion of the motor vehicle so that the motor vehicle travels on the prioritized route. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403039 | ARITHMETIC OPERATION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - A vehicle arithmetic system includes a single information processing circuitry. performs control of vehicle external environment estimation circuitry configured to receive outputs from sensors that obtain information of a vehicle external environment, and estimate the vehicle external environment including a road and an obstacle; a route generation circuitry configured to generate a traveling route of the vehicle which avoids the obstacle estimated on the road estimated, based on an output from the vehicle external environment estimation unit; and a target motion determination circuitry configured to determine a target motion of the vehicle so that the vehicle travels along the traveling route generated by the route generation circuitry. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403040 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND VEHICLE - An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit determines a service content fit for an occupant by acquiring first information from a first sensor installed in a vehicle cabin of a vehicle for detecting the occupant and second information from a second sensor for detecting opening and closing of a door of the vehicle, estimating composition information of the occupant based on the first information that is acquired, estimating mood information of the occupant based on the second information that is acquired, and comparing the composition information and the mood information that are estimated with past data for another occupant in which the composition information and the mood information are associated with a service content received at a service facility. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403041 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM INCLUDING REACHABILITY ANALYSIS - An autonomous system includes a vehicle operable to travel from a first point to a second point, a first actuator operable to adjust a speed of the vehicle, and a second actuator operable to adjust a direction of travel of the vehicle. A controller is operable to send control signals to the first actuator and the second actuator to facilitate the transition of the system from a first state to a second state during travel between the first point and the second point. A reachability controller is coupled to the controller to receive the first state and the control signals and to analyze the first state and the control signals to determine if the second state is a safe state. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403042 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE USING TOY DEVICE IN AUTOMATED VEHICLE AND HIGHWAY SYSTEM (AVHS), AND DEVICE FOR THE SAME - A method for controlling a vehicle using a toy device in an Automated Vehicle & Highway system (AVHS). The method is performed by a control device and includes: identifying the toy device in the vehicle; when the toy device is identified, receiving GUI information from the toy device or a GUI server device; preparing a specific scenario or driving mode based on the GUI information; controlling a vehicle state based on information on the specific scenario or driving mode; and when termination information is received, controlling the vehicle state based on autonomous driving information. Implementations disclosed herein enable moving to a desired destination and enjoying 4D content at the same time through the vehicle in the AVHS. An autonomous vehicle, user terminal, and/or server according to the present invention may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, robot, augmented reality (AR) device, virtual reality (VR) device, etc. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403043 | L4 AUTO-EMERGENCY LIGHT SYSTEM FOR FUTURE HARSH BRAKE - A planned trajectory is analyzed by an L4 emergency braking module, before the trajectory is navigated by the autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). An L4 emergency braking signal is generated in response to an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) determining that any portion of a planned trajectory of the ADV has a deceleration that is less than −2 m/sec | 2021-12-30 |
20210403044 | SITUATION-ADAPTED ACTUATION FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE AT LEAST PARTIALLY AUTOMATED CONTROL OF VEHICLES - A method for generating an actuation signal for a driver assistance system and/or a system for the at least partially automated control of a vehicle. In the method, suggestions are made available for trajectories to be traveled by the vehicle and/or for other actions to be triggered that affect the driving dynamics of the vehicle. The suggestions are evaluated by a cost function, this cost function including a weighted sum of multiple cost terms, the weights being dynamically adapted. Utilizing the evaluations ascertained using the cost function, at least one trajectory or action is selected from among the suggestions. At least one actuation signal is generated that when conveyed to the driver assistance system or the system for the at least partially automatic control of the vehicle, induces the respective system to travel the selected trajectory with the vehicle or to trigger the suggested action. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403045 | Path Planning Using Delta Cost Volume Generated from Movement Restrictions and Observed Driving Behavior - In one embodiment, a method includes determining an initial cost volume associated with a plurality of potential trajectories of a vehicle in an environment based on a set of movement restrictions of the vehicle, generating a delta cost volume using the initial cost volume and environment data associated with the environment, wherein the delta cost volume is generated by determining adjustments to the initial cost volume that incorporate observed driving behavior, and scoring a trajectory of the plurality of potential trajectories for the vehicle based on t the initial cost volume and the delta cost volume. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403046 | SENSOR AGGREGATION MODULE - The subject disclosure relates to features for improving the modularity and interoperability of sensors and in particular, sensors deployed for use in vehicle related sensing applications. In some aspects, the disclosed technology encompasses a sensor aggregation module (e.g., sensor pod) that includes a sensor enclosure having an interior volume configured for housing one or more sensors, a data port integrated into an exterior surface of the sensor enclosure, wherein the data port is configured to be electrically coupled to a vehicle data port, and a plurality of sensor ports disposed within an interior volume of the sensor enclosure, wherein the sensor ports are configured for modular connectivity to the one or more sensors. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403047 | YELLOW LIGHT DURATIONS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode. For instance, a current state of a traffic light may be determined. One of a plurality of yellow light durations may be selected based on the current state of the traffic light. When the traffic light will turn red may be predicted based on the selected one. The prediction may be used to control the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403048 | ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - Aspects of the disclosure relate to enabling roadside assistance to a vehicle that requires assistance having an autonomous driving mode. For instance, a technician may be assigned to the vehicle that requires assistance. A signal corresponding to user input at a remote computing device requesting a change to a state of the vehicle may be received. The signal may be based on details of the assigned technician. Based on the validation, an instruction may be sent to the vehicle to change the state of the vehicle. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403049 | TRAJECTORY DETERMINATION FOR FOUR-WHEEL STEERING - Four-wheel steering of a vehicle, e.g., in which leading wheels and trailing wheels are steered independently of each other, can provide improved maneuverability and stability. A first vehicle model may be used to determine trajectories for execution by a vehicle equipped with four-wheel steering. A second vehicle model may be used to control the vehicle relative to the determined trajectories. For instance, the second vehicle model can determine leading wheels steering angles for steering leading wheels of the vehicle and trailing wheels steering angles for steering trailing wheels of the vehicle, independently of the leading wheels. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403050 | AUTONOMOUS DRIVING CRASH PREVENTION - Autonomous vehicles must accommodate various road configurations such as straight roads, curved roads, controlled intersections, uncontrolled intersections, and many others. Autonomous driving systems must make decisions about the speed and distance of traffic and about obstacles including obstacles that obstruct the view of the autonomous vehicle's sensors. For example, at intersections, the autonomous driving system must identify vehicles in the path of the autonomous vehicle or potentially in the path based on a planned path, estimate the distance to those vehicles, and estimate the speeds of those vehicles. Then, based on those and the road configuration and environmental conditions, the autonomous driving system must decide whether it is safe to proceed along the planned path or not, and when it is safe to proceed. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403051 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE - A vehicle control method for determining a vehicle control level based on avoidance information of a passenger with respect to a dangerous situation. The method includes: detecting a state of a passenger; calculating a first degree of danger based on the passenger's state; calculating a second degree of danger based on a driving state of the vehicle, positional relationship between the vehicle and another vehicle, and/or a driving situation of the vehicle; extracting avoidance information corresponding to the first and second degrees of danger from stored avoidance information of the passenger; and determining a control level of the vehicle based on the first and second degrees of danger and the extracted avoidance information. An autonomous vehicle, a user terminal, and/or a server may be associated with artificial intelligence modules, drones (unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)), robots, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, devices related to 5G service, etc. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403052 | IMPAIRED DRIVER ASSISTANCE - A system in a vehicle can have a camera and/or a sensor. Such a camera can be configured to record a visual feature of a user in the vehicle and send data derived from the visual feature. Such a sensor can be configured to sense a non-visual feature of the user in the vehicle and send data derived from the non-visual feature. The system can have a computing system configured to receive such data from the camera and the sensor. The computing device can also be configured to determine a state of the user based on the received data derived from visual and non-visual features, as well as an AI system. The computing device can also be configured to enable or disable a function of the vehicle based at least partially on the state of the user, which the AI system can infer from the received data. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403053 | METHOD FOR CALLING A VEHICLE TO USER'S CURRENT LOCATION - Disclosed herein is a method for exactly estimating the current location of a user and calling a vehicle to the estimated location on the basis of a GPS coordinate of a user terminal and a coordinate of a feature point recorded by the user terminal. The method for calling a vehicle according to an embodiment includes transmitting a GPS coordinate of a terminal to a server when a service request signal is input by a user, receiving tile data corresponding to the GPS coordinate of a terminal from the server, recording an external image using a camera, and extracting a feature point from the recorded external image, identifying any one reference feature point matched with the feature point extracted from the external image among a plurality of reference feature points included in the tile data, determining a terminal coordinate on the basis of a coordinate of the identified reference feature point and on the basis of a change in a location of the reference feature point in the external image, and transmitting the determined terminal coordinate to the server, and receiving a vehicle coordinate of a vehicle for transportation allocated to the terminal coordinate from the server. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403054 | VEHICLE ALLOCATION METHOD IN AUTOMATED VEHICLE AND HIGHWAY SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - Disclosed is a vehicle allocation method of a server in an automated vehicle and highway system, which acquires a state information of a user, using a home Internet of Things (IoT), determines behavior information of the user, sets a going out stage related to an action sequence for going out of the user, based on the behavior information, transmits a vehicle allocation request message to the vehicle in order for the user to use the vehicle, based on the going out stage, whereby efficient vehicle allocation can be provided to users. One or more of an autonomous vehicle, a user terminal and a server may be connected to an artificial intelligence (AI) module, a drone (unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV) robot, an augmented reality (AR) apparatus, a virtual reality (VR) apparatus, a 5G service related apparatus or the like. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403055 | VEHICLE RIDESHARE LOCALIZATION AND PASSENGER IDENTIFICATION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - Various disclosed embodiments include methods of locating an intended passenger of an automotive vehicle and vehicle-based systems for locating an intended passenger of an automotive vehicle. In an illustrative embodiment, a method of locating an intended passenger of an automotive vehicle includes: moving an automotive vehicle to an approximate location of an intended passenger based on a location signal from the intended passenger received via a wireless network; after moving to the approximate location of the intended passenger, receiving, by the vehicle, an image from an electronic device of the intended passenger, the image being an image of the intended passenger or an image of local physical surroundings of the intended passenger; processing the image to determine additional location information of the intended passenger based on matching the image against one or more reference images; and accepting by the vehicle, the intended passenger responsive to the image processing. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403056 | CONVOLUTION OPERATOR SELECTION - A vehicle system includes one or more sensors configured to capture aspects of an environment and a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive information about the environment captured by the one or more sensors, determine one or more structures within the environment based on the received information, select a kernel that is parameterized for predicting a vehicle trajectory based on the one or more structures determined within the environment, and perform a convolution of the selected kernel and an array defining the environment, wherein the convolution predicts a future trajectory of a vehicle within the environment. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403057 | BRAKE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR OPERATION OF SAID ASSEMBLY - Various systems and methods for braking a vehicle are provided. In one embodiment, a brake assembly is provided that includes a lever attachment interface pivotally coupled with two degrees of freedom to a joint between a first lever and a second lever and a brake cylinder coupled to the first lever and designed to engage and disengage a brake lining in a brake component. The brake cylinder includes a slack adjuster configured to adjust a throw of the second lever. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403058 | HANDBRAKE MECHANISM FOR RAILWAY WAGONS AND STEERING WHEEL FOR A HANDBRAKE MECHANISM FOR RAILWAY WAGONS - A handwheel-actuated, extreme low-profile parking brake mechanism for railway cars, which can be housed in a housing that together with the handwheel does not exceed a width of 6¼ from the side surface of the car, in this way it meets the requirements of the applicable normative specification defined by the same AAR association and by the FRA regulations, thus fitting into the reduced space available for this brake mechanisms on one side of the railway car. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403059 | FIBER OPTIC SENSOR UNIT, OPTICAL MEASURING SYSTEM, AND AXLE-COUNTING DEVICE AND METHOD - A fiber optic sensor unit for detecting a mechanical force acting on a rail includes at least a first sensor fiber, a first elongated fiber optic strain sensor and a second elongated fiber optic strain sensor. The first sensor fiber includes the first strain sensor and is characterized in that the at least one sensor fiber is attached to a sensor plate. The first fiber strain sensor and the second strain sensor are arranged in an x-type or v-type geometry, wherein the first strain sensor and the second strain sensor are arranged in an angle of 60° to 120°, in particular of 90°, to each other. Measurements with increased amplification of the measurement signal and improved raw data can be made. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403060 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING RAILWAY EQUIPMENT DEFECTS - A device for detecting railway equipment defects, comprising at least three diagnostic modules mounted on a generic railway vehicle:
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20210403061 | TRAIN CONTROL APPARATUS AND TRAIN CONTROL METHOD - A train control apparatus includes a setting reception unit that receives setting information regarding a temporary speed limit section and a speed limit. A control unit generates temporary speed limit information for the trains. A communication unit transmits the temporary speed limit information to the trains. If information regarding all temporary speed limit sections cannot be included in the temporary speed limit information, the control unit includes, in the temporary speed limit information, information regarding a specified number of temporary speed limit sections located on a traveling direction side, and changes a speed limit in one or more temporary speed limit sections included in the temporary speed limit information on the basis of a speed limit set in a temporary speed limit section that is adjacent to a temporary speed limit section included in the temporary speed limit information, and is not included in the temporary speed limit information. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403062 | ALERTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system is provided that include at least one positioning system that can detect a location or position of a vehicle or a portion of a vehicle group that includes the vehicle, at least one sensor positioned on or associated with the vehicle that can generate sensor data of a determined parameter or condition, and a controller in communication with the sensor and the positioning system. The controller can determine that a hazard event has occurred based at least partially on sensor data, and can communicate a hazard event notification based at least in part on the location data and the sensor data to a remote server. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403063 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING TRAIN FORMATION TRACKING - Embodiments of the present application provide a method and a device for controlling train formation tracking, the method comprising: obtaining a current distance between a first train and a second train in a train formation, wherein the first train is adjacent to the second train and located behind the second train; determining a target tracking mode of the first train based on the current distance, wherein the target tracking mode is one of a speed tracking mode, a distance tracking mode and a braking mode; and tracking the second train, by the first train based on the target tracking mode. Tracking efficiency is improved according to the method of the embodiments of the present application. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403064 | Children's Pull Wagon - A collapsible children's pull wagon having four wheels and an upper loop frame pivotably attached to a lower loop frame. There is a hub to which a pull bar and a front axle is coupled to. The front axle is capable of rotating along a vertical axis of the hub in order to change the direction of travel. The pull wagon can easily collapse by releasing a support frame which directly connects the rear end of the upper loop frame to the rear end of the lower loop frame. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403065 | CART ROBOT HAVING CHARGE FUNCTION - Provided is a cart robot having a charge function, which includes: a main body having a container in which goods are contained, a handle assembly installed on one side of the container, a battery module, and a battery management system (BMS) module for managing charge and discharge of the battery module; wheel assemblies rotatably coupled to a lower portion of the main body, and configured to move the main body in a direction of a force applied to the handle assembly; and an external charge module (CM) having a front connector provided on a lower front side of the main body and a rear connector provided on a lower rear side of the main body, electrically connected to an external power supply through the front or rear connector and configured to charge the battery module. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403066 | PALLET SLED AND DELIVERY SYSTEM - A pallet sled includes a pair of tines extending forward from a base. A load wheel supports each of the pair of tines. The load wheels are each configured to move away from the respective tine to lift the respective tine upward relative to a support surface on which the load wheel is supported. A processor on the pallet sled records usage of the sled, such as lift cycles, location over time, battery condition, lift height, weight lifted, distance traveled, and the like. A communication circuit may be configured to send data from the pallet sled to a remote server. An identification reader may be configured to read an identification tag of an object supported on the pair of tines, such as an rfid tag on a pallet. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403067 | SHOPPING CART SYSTEM - A shopping cart system that includes an image that can be applied to the packaging of an item. The image may be invisible in a visible light spectrum but only visible in radiations of a specific spectrum or within a range of wavelengths that are outside the visible light spectrum. An optical scanner unit that can scan the image on the package. The optical scanner unit can include a lamp that can generate the radiations in the specific spectrum in which the image can be scanned. The optical scanner unit can be mounted to a shopping cart such as to track items being placed or removed from the shopping cart. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403068 | ROD ROTATION APPARATUS - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a rod rotation apparatus, including: a rod having at least one first helix or at least one second helix coupling portion; a movable member having at least one first helix coupling portion or at least one second helix coupled with the at least one first helix or the at least one second helix coupling portion; a handle extender having a structure of one or more stages, including a first-stage extender; a handle coupled to the top of the handle extender; and a traction member connected between the movable member and the handle or between the movable member and the handle extender. | 2021-12-30 |
20210403069 | Baby Stroller Frame Linked Folding Device - The present invention provides a baby stroller frame linked folding device. A linked folding joint is provided on the upper end of a rear leg frame and is pivotally connected with a front leg frame and a handlebar frame. The handlebar frame comprises a lower handlebar frame that is pivotally connected to the linked folding joint, a handlebar folding clutch joint configured on the upper end of the lower handlebar frame, and an upper handlebar frame pivotally connected to the handlebar folding clutch joint. On the inner side of the linked folding joint, a seatback clutch joint is configured, for installation of a seatback frame, and a slide base is configured, which can slide along the rear leg frame, and both sides of the top end of the slide base are respectively and pivotally connected with a connecting rod, each respectively and pivotally connected to the front leg frame and the lower handlebar frame; when the upper handlebar frame turns and folds onto the lower handlebar frame, it will firstly drive the releasing push block inside the seatback clutch joint so that the seatback frame will fall down, then, the lower sliding block pushes the hook to release the slide base, so that the slide base will slide downward, causing the two connecting rods to pull the front leg frame and the handlebar frame and fold them onto the rear leg frame. Thus, the baby stroller frame can be folded all at once. | 2021-12-30 |