Abstract: A method and system is provided for determining a direction of movement of an electric vehicle. The method and system includes determining the direction of rotation and the direction of torque of a motor shaft, determining an operating gear of the vehicle, and determining a previous direction of movement of the vehicle. The method and system then determines if the vehicle is moving forward or backwards. The method and system also determines whether the vehicle is motoring (i.e., converting electric power to mechanical power) or generating (i.e., converting mechanical power into electric power).

Abstract: A system includes a first communication module and a first ordering determination module. The first communication module is configured to be disposed onboard a first vehicle of a vehicle consist and to communicate individual messages that are targeted for communication with respective individual second vehicles of the vehicle consist. The first ordering determination module is configured to be disposed onboard the first vehicle of the vehicle consist, and to determine an order of the first vehicle and one or more of the second vehicles in the consist using message characteristic information. The message characteristic information corresponds to a transmission characteristic of the individual messages.

Abstract: A battery power cut off system for a vehicle is provided that improves safety of the vehicle by separately detecting an overcurrent, an abnormal current, and a short current generated due to various causes while a vehicle is driven and cutting off power output from a battery. The system includes a collision sensing unit that detects an impact quantity due to a collision while the vehicle is driven and a battery sensor that detects an output current quantity of the battery. A controller analyzes the impact quantity and the output current quantity of the battery to determine whether a collision current, a short current, and an overcurrent are generated and perform a power cut off control. A switch is configured to cut off the battery power supplied to a large-capacity load element in response to a control signal of the controller.

Abstract: Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for determining the accuracy of map data. In one embodiment, map data and collected telematics data can be compared. The difference between the map data and the telematics data can be used to determine the accuracy of the map data.

Abstract: A registration solution between two or more sets of point cloud data is provided to register a first target set of point cloud data with a second source set of point cloud data. Through error propagation, degrees of freedom masking and transformation filtering, a system may provide an intelligent method of enabling and disabling degrees of freedom in a real-time registration application. A system may adapt to varying environments (feature-rich and featureless) ensuring a high-integrity registration estimate through providing estimates of the observable parameters. By optionally and iteratively masking zero or more degrees of freedom from the registration estimate, a system may locate desirable data to use in a registration estimate. Then, the system may blend updates from the registration estimates to achieve the best available registration solution applied to the original second source set as well as additional sets of point cloud data.

Abstract: A system including an instrument and a vehicle control system is provided. The instrument can include a display and a vehicle controller in communication with the vehicle control system. The instrument can be docked in a docking station of the vehicle, for example in a driver space, and used as primary instrumentation for a driver to directly control the vehicle. The instrument can be undocked and removed physically from the vehicle and used to remotely control vehicle operations from a location distant from the vehicle. A method of using the system and instrument is also provided in which a user can directly or remotely operate a vehicle with the instrument in communication with the vehicle control system. A method of using the system and/or instrument to directly or remotely operate one or more vehicles is also provided.

Abstract: An integrated control system for an electric vehicle, comprising: an integrated driving and charge-discharge controller connected with a power battery via a high-voltage distribution box, connected with a motor and a charge-discharge socket respectively, and configured to drive the motor when the electric vehicle is in a driving mode and to control to charge and discharge the power battery via the charge-discharge socket when the electric vehicle is in a charge-discharge mode; an auxiliary high-voltage element connected with the power battery via the high-voltage distribution box; a first DC/DC module connected with the power battery via the high-voltage distribution box; and a controller connected with the high-voltage distribution box and configured to control the high-voltage distribution box so as to perform a pre-charging via the high-voltage distribution box before the integrated driving and charge-discharge controller, the auxiliary high-voltage element and the first DC/DC module are powered on.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to providing navigation instructions to a user for reaching a destination via a route planned on a map of a navigation system, said map comprising a plurality of road segments, at least a subset of said road segments comprising an assigned familiarity score. An aspect includes tracking a route taken by a user. Another aspect includes calculating an updated familiarity score of the one or more road segments of the tracked route using at least one of a user-defined updating variable and an updating variable based on at least one dynamically obtained actual travelling condition. Yet another aspect includes storing the updated familiarity score in a data storage of the navigation system.

Abstract: An AVN system of a vehicle includes a processor including a receiving unit that receives driving information of the vehicle, and receives mirroring data from an external wireless terminal through a wireless communication, a determining unit that determines whether or not the vehicle is moving, based on the driving information, and determines a type of the mirroring data, whether the mirroring data are movie data or non-movie data, a control unit that, upon the determining unit determining that the vehicle is not moving, outputs the mirroring data as they are regardless of the type of the mirroring data, and upon the determining unit determining that the vehicle is moving, outputs the mirroring data as they are only when the mirroring data are the non-movie data, and an output unit that outputs the mirroring data to a display device.

Abstract: A rating of map information of self-learned maps with the aid of a method for producing, storing, and further using a digital map for a motor vehicle. Data relating to a first environment of the motor vehicle is captured using an ascertaining apparatus based on the ascertained data, a digital map of a first environment of the motor vehicle is produced and stored in a storage apparatus of the motor vehicle and rated using a first confidence indicator. A second confidence indicator is obtained from an electronic horizon. If the map information of the self-learned map matches the map information of the electronic horizon, the confidence indicator is raised to obtain a third confidence indicator of higher value and the map information can be used in a driver assistance system. However, if the data items do not match, the confidence indicators are lowered and transmission of the map information to the driver assistance system is blocked.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a control system for travel in a platoon (1), the platoon comprising a lead vehicle (L) and one or more following vehicles (F1, F2, . . . , Fi-1, Fi, . . . , Fn) automatically following the lead vehicle, the lead vehicle controlling the movement of the following vehicles, each of the following vehicles and the lead vehicle comprising communication means (10, 12), wherein the control system comprises a common time base, which allows a control command proposing an action to be communicated from the lead vehicle (L) to at least one of the following vehicles (F1, F2, . . . , Fi-1, Fi, . . . , Fn) in advance of a control point (tc). The invention further relates to the use of a common time base in a platoon and to a method to control travelling in a platoon.

Abstract: A method for assisting in the piloting of an aircraft during a landing on a landing area on the ground. The method includes the following steps: (1) during a landing phase, while the landing area on the ground is visible from the aircraft: displaying, on a screen of the cockpit of the aircraft, a target corresponding to this landing, overlaid on a view outside the aircraft; receiving from a pilot a command to modify this target and displaying the duly modified target; and receiving a command to validate a value of the target by a pilot; (2) automatically determining an aircraft flight trajectory as a function of the aircraft's current position and of the value of the target validated by the pilot and storing this trajectory; and (3) guiding the aircraft along the stored trajectory. Also a piloting assistance system suitable for implementing this method is disclosed.

Abstract: A torque sharing rate is set as a constraint of a motion equation of an automatic transmission by using a gear shift model in which gear shift target values are set by two values of a torque on a rotating member on an output shaft side and a rotation speed variation of a rotating member on an input shaft side. In addition, a first gear shift according to the gear shift control and a second gear shift that uses a gear shift model in which the gear shift target value is set using only the velocity variation of the rotating member on the input shaft side to enable a speedier gear shift than the first gear shift are selectively executed.

Abstract: A vehicle having a prime mover and a driveline to connect the prime mover to first and second groups of wheels such that the first group is driven by the prime mover when the driveline is in a first mode, and the first and second groups are driven when the driveline is in a second mode. The driveline comprises an auxiliary portion comprising first and second releasable torque transmitting mechanisms and a prop shaft. The first and second torque transmitting mechanisms are respectively operable to connect the prop shaft to the prime mover and to the second group of wheels. The driveline is operable to transition to the second mode when a second condition is met that includes a vehicle operating parameter exceeding a first threshold, and to transition to the first mode when a first condition is met that includes the operating parameter being less than a second threshold.

Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle employing a powertrain system and a braking system coupled to vehicle wheels includes interrupting vehicle creep operation upon detect absence of a qualified operator in a driver's seat when the vehicle is in a propulsion state.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to providing navigation instructions to a user for reaching a destination via a route planned on a map of a navigation system, said map comprising a plurality of road segments, at least a subset of said road segments comprising an assigned familiarity score. An aspect includes tracking a route taken by a user. Another aspect includes calculating an updated familiarity score of the one or more road segments of the tracked route using at least one of a user-defined updating variable and an updating variable based on at least one dynamically obtained actual travelling condition. Yet another aspect includes storing the updated familiarity score in a data storage of the navigation system.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device and process for determining an airport runway state (12), as well as for using such data. The process includes: acquisition (A1) of measurement data pertaining to at least one physical size of an aircraft (10), during the take off or landing roll phase of the aircraft on said runway; obtaining (A2), using the data acquired, a plurality of estimated adhesion values “?” of the runway, corresponding to a respective plurality of taxiing moments of the aircraft; obtaining (A3), using the data acquired, a slip ratio value “s” of at least one of the aircraft's wheels for each said taxiing moment, so as to obtain (A4) a plurality of coupled data points [s,?]; and determination of a runway state by comparing (A5.2) the coupled data points [s,?] profile with at least one predetermined profile.

Abstract: A portable terminal (300) transmits to a server (210) a request to start pre-air conditioning when the operations to begin pre-air conditioning are performed on the screen of the portable terminal (300). The server (210) predicts whether an air conditioning device (180) will begin cooling or heating on the basis of a set of vehicle location information stored in a vehicle information storage unit (214) and a set of temperature information acquired from a temperature information center, and transmits the prediction results to the portable terminal (300). As a consequence, it is possible to notify the cooling/heating state to a vehicle user in a timely manner.

Abstract: A system and method provided on an ego-vehicle for assessing potential threats in a vehicle collision avoidance system, and/or to plan safety-allowed vehicle trajectories for vehicle path planning. The method includes detecting objects in a predetermined vicinity around the ego-vehicle, and determining the relative velocity or other measure between each detected object and the ego-vehicle. The method defines a virtual dynamic safety shield around each detected object that has a shape, size and orientation that is determined by predetermined properties related to the current state of traffic around the ego-vehicle. The method also defines an action grid around the ego-vehicle. The method assesses the threat level of a potential collision between each detected object based on how the shield for that object and the action grid interact. The interaction between the shields and the grid induces actions aimed at aborting collisions and allows for trajectory planning.

Abstract: Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for determining the accuracy of map data. In one embodiment, map data and collected telematics data can be compared. The difference between the map data and the telematics data can be used to determine the accuracy of the map data.