Abstract: A driver assistance system for a motor vehicle includes at least one system for recovering navigation data, a compilation interface to create at least one sequence of events from the recovered navigation data, and a computer for calculating a driver alert distance. The driver alert distance is calculated for each of the events of each created sequence of events depending on at least one natural deceleration distance of the vehicle specific to each event. The driver assistance system also includes a management interface determining a priority among the events of each sequence of events depending on the driver alert distance calculated for each event.

Abstract: A method controls a motor vehicle equipped with at least two perception sensors to avoid a target. The control method includes: determining data of the sensors, fusing the data of the sensors so as to determine the steering wheel angle, the vehicle speed and the vehicle heading, planning an avoidance path to avoid the target, taking the form of a Euler spiral, refining the avoidance path depending on the steering wheel angle, on the vehicle speed and on the vehicle heading and based on the solution of an optimisation problem, controlling the vehicle so as to follow the refined path, the refining the path including honing the avoidance path depending on the path length, on the direction of steering wheel rotation and on the final heading and refining the honed trajectory depending on the initial heading and on the direction of steering wheel rotation.

Abstract: The relative position between a vehicle and an extension unit located outside the vehicle is detected, and a command touch operation for operating the vehicle with a remote operation device is set in accordance with the detected relative position. The touch operation of an operator is detected by a touch panel of the remote operation device, and a determination is made as to whether or not the detected touch operation is the command touch operation. When the touch operation is the command touch operation, the vehicle is controlled to execute autonomous travel control. The vehicle has an autonomous travel control function.

Abstract: An obstacle-avoidance method includes detecting an obstacle in a vicinity of a motor vehicle and planning an obstacle-avoidance path for avoiding the obstacle; and commanding steering and differential braking systems to handle the avoidance path.

Abstract: A travel assistance method for performing a lane change of a host vehicle includes: detecting an oncoming vehicle traveling in an opposite lane from which the host vehicle travels when the host vehicle starts the lane change; determining a crossing point between a virtual advancing route and a linear advancing route in which the oncoming vehicle advances linearly, the virtual advancing route being a virtual extension of an advancing route of the host vehicle during a period from start to end of the lane change; executing a lane change using the route and the vehicle speed in a case where a time difference between a first predicted time and a second predicted time is outside a predetermined range; and when within the predetermined range, executing a lane change by changing at least one of the route and the vehicle speed such that the time difference is outside the predetermined range.

Abstract: An electrical power supply for a hybrid or electric motor vehicle includes a first power source to supply a voltage network of the vehicle, a second power source to supply the voltage network of the vehicle and/or to recharge the first power source, and a control module to control a safety structure of the first power source and of the second power source. The electrical power supply includes a metal casing containing the first power source, the second power source, the control module and the safety structure. The safety structure is common to the two power sources.

Abstract: A method for modifying software in a motor vehicle includes a step of receiving software data and deployment data and steps of verifying the deployment data. If the verification steps are validated, software is modified in the motor vehicle via the software data.

Abstract: A device is for extinguishing a fire inside an electric storage device of a vehicle. The extinguishing device includes at least one cap and a cylinder containing at least one gas for extinguishing the fire. The cylinder includes a closing seal and defines a space containing the gas. The cap includes at least one puncturing device and a base provided with an apertured wall. The puncturing device is capable of breaking the closing seal of the cylinder whilst maintaining its air-tightness.

Abstract: A control device is used in a vehicle including a perception system which uses sensors. The perception system includes a device for estimating a variable including a characteristic relating to objects detected in the surrounding area of the vehicle, the estimation device including an online learning module which uses a neural network to estimate the variable. The learning module includes: a forward-propagation module to propagate data from sensors, which data are applied as the input to the neural network, so as to provide a predicted output including an estimate of the variable; a fusion system to determine a fusion output by implementing a sensor fusion algorithm using the predicted values; a back-propagation module to update weights associated with the online neural network by determining a loss function representing the error between an improved predicted value of the fusion output and the predicted output by performing gradient descent back propagation.

Abstract: A vehicle headlamp includes a housing closed by a transparent outer lens and, inside the housing, a lighting module that emits a light beam in the direction of an optical axis defining a cone of light and a transparent screen that is positioned between the lighting module and the outer lens and receives, in its thickness, a light beam emitted by a light source. An internal face of the screen is provided with optical modules that reflect the light emitted by the light source in the direction of the outer lens. The outer lens forms a first angle of 60 to 100° with the optical axis of the lighting module and the screen forms a second angle such that a part of the cone of light of the light beam that is situated beneath the optical axis is reflected by the screen above the lighting module.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a source region formed on a main surface of the substrate; a well region electrically connected to the source region; a drift region in contact with the well region; a drain region in contact with the drift region; a first electrode electrically connected to the source region; a second electrode electrically connected to the drain region; a third electrode formed in contact with the source region, the well region, and the drift region through an insulating film; and a parasitic capacitance reduction region formed in contact with the source region and in contact with the third electrode through the insulating film and having a higher resistance value than that of the source region.

Abstract: A bumper reinforcement includes a main body made of metal, a reinforcing channel member, and a resin block. A mounting portion of a crash box is formed at a vicinity of each end of the main body. The reinforcing channel member includes a web, an upper flange and a lower flange that are placed on an outer panel, an upper panel and a lower panel of the main body at the mounting portion of the crash box, respectively. The reinforcing channel member is extended outward from the each end of the main body. The resin block is provided on an inner face of the reinforcing channel member. The resin block is contact with or joined to the outer panel and an inner panel of the main body at each end of the main body and extended from the each end to an outer edge of the reinforcing channel member.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communicator for communicating with an on-vehicle communicator mounted on a vehicle and a communication terminal to be operated by a user, and a controller configured to acquire, from the on-vehicle communicator, an update history of at least some of map data stored in a storage medium of the vehicle, determine whether the map data needs to be updated on a basis of the update history, transmit an inquiry signal to the communication terminal via the communicator to inquire whether to allow updating of the map data when the controller has determined to need to update the map data, and transmit an update instruction signal for instructing updating of the map data to the on-vehicle communicator via the communicator when the controller has received an allowance signal for permitting updating of the map data from the communication terminal via the communicator.

Abstract: A method controls the start-up of an oil pump of a gearbox by a brushless electric motor that has no position sensor. The stator coils are powered from the off mode in a constant-current open-loop control sequence until the pump reaches a speed threshold at which speed regulation switches over to closed-loop control on a setpoint corresponding to the lubrication flow rate required to ensure the reliability of the gearbox, but without in so doing exceeding a current threshold indicative of pump seizure, at which point motor control switches back over to the constant-current open-loop control sequence. The open-loop current setpoint is higher than the threshold for switching over to closed-loop control so that in the open-loop control mode the motor torque available at the pump is higher than in the closed-loop control mode.

Abstract: A system controls a vehicle. The vehicle implements at least one control application using a variable measured by at least one sensor of a perception system installed in the vehicle. The control system includes an adaptive controller to dynamically activate one or more elementary controllers of a set of elementary controllers including at least two elementary controllers, each elementary controller can apply a control function of a vehicle parameter acting on actuators of the vehicle, the control functions being separate, based on a precision indicator of the perception system determined according to a real-time value of the variable.

Abstract: A front structure of a motor vehicle includes: a bulkhead extending between an engine compartment and a passenger compartment; two front side members connected to the bulkhead; a steering ball joint provided in the bulkhead and projecting into the engine compartment, the steering ball joint having a base and an oblong orifice provided in the base and defining an edge extending around the oblong orifice facing the engine compartment; and a rack installed in the engine compartment and a rack seal designed to engage between the rack and the steering ball joint. The structure also includes a planar annular part surface mounted on the edge and extending around the oblong orifice in order to be able to extend the reception range of the rack seal.

Abstract: A controller is configured to set a stopping order of a plurality of vehicles, which indicates the vehicle order at a stop location in a stopping area. The controller is further configured to estimate an arrival order, which indicates the order in which the plurality of vehicles arrive at a prescribed location, based on position information of the plurality of vehicles. The controller is further configured to determine whether the arrival order differs from the stopping order The controller is further configured to control the travel of at least one vehicle from among the plurality of vehicles upon determining that the arrival order differs from the stopping order, such that the arrival order is the same as the stopping order by a time the plurality of vehicles arrive at the prescribed location.

Abstract: A driving support method including: detecting a first boundary point group including boundary points forming a lane boundary line, using a sensor mounted on a vehicle; converting a coordinate system of the first boundary point group to the same coordinate system as a coordinate system of map data; and performing matching between a first point group constituted by boundary points not close to each other in either one of a second boundary point group including boundary points forming a lane boundary line in the map data and the first boundary point group and the other of the first boundary point group and the second boundary point group.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a conversion circuit (10) having a switching element and converting DC voltage into AC voltage by switching operation of the switching element, an isolation transformer (3) for which an input side is connected to the conversion circuit (10), a rectifier circuit (4) connected to an outside of the isolation transformer (3), a resonance circuit connected to the output side of the isolation transformer (3), and a control circuit (100) for controlling the switching element, wherein the control circuit (100) turning on the switching element in a period when current flowing through resonance circuit flows from a low potential side terminal to a high potential side terminal of the switching element via the isolation transformer (3).

Abstract: An electrochemical pouch cell is for an electrical energy storage device, in particular intended for a motor vehicle. The electrochemical cell includes a stack of a plurality of electrodes, at least one electric terminal and a liner connected to the electric terminal and to itself, respectively at a primary connection and a secondary connection, so as to form a recess into which the plurality of electrodes and all or part of the at least one electric terminal extend, the electric terminal having a first dimension substantially equal to or greater than a first dimension of a stack of the plurality of electrodes.