Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for recognizing continuous driving style are provided, which involve the intelligent vehicles field. The method comprises: collecting multi-dimensional driving data from a plurality of drivers in daily driving scenarios, segmenting the driving data to obtain a plurality of driving segments, calculating statistical features of each driving segment to determine high-dimensional continuous driving statistical features, reducing dimensionality of the driving statistical features to generate common factors for each driving segment, representing each driving segment with a driving word based on the common factors, representing all the driving segments of a target driver as a driving word sequence, constructing a hierarchical latent model of driving behavior, and inputting the driving word sequence into the hierarchical latent model of driving behavior to determine the continuous driving style of the target driver.

Abstract: A method is for influencing and/or operating a steering system, in particular a steer-by-wire steering system. In the method, a setpoint for an operating element actuator is determined independently of a setpoint for a steering gear actuator, and the operating element actuator is actuated depending on the setpoint for the operating element actuator. The setpoint for the steering gear actuator of the steering system is determined independently of the setpoint for the operating element actuator, and the steering gear actuator is actuated depending on the setpoint for the steering gear actuator. The setpoint for the operating element actuator is determined depending on a target value for a behavior of an operating element and depending on a first request value. The setpoint for the steering gear actuator is determined depending on a target value for a behavior of the steering gear actuator and depending on a second request value.

Abstract: A soil measure, such as a soil cone index, and a vehicle index indicating the amount of force the vehicle exerts on the ground as it travels over the ground, are obtained and compared to identify a soil damage score. The soil damage score can be mapped over a field and an agricultural vehicle can be controlled based upon the soil damage score.

Abstract: An air intake duct configured to provide intake air to a first component and a second component. The duct includes a first conduit that provides the intake air to the first component and a second conduit that provides the intake air to the second component, wherein an air direction feature in the form of an elongated ridge is formed in the air intake duct at an intersection between the first conduit and the second conduit, and the air direction feature is located and oriented in the air intake duct to control an amount of the intake air that is permitted to enter each of the first conduit and the second conduit, and to control a swirl direction of the intake air as the intake air travels over elongated ridge and enters each of the first conduit and the second conduit.

Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for compensating for backlash in a steering house of a steering system in a vehicle. A method is performed by a controller of the steering system. The method comprises obtaining a hysteresis model of the backlash in the steering house. The hysteresis model has an inverse. The method comprises obtaining a control signal to be input to an electric motor of the steering system. The control signal defines a desired set point for the steering system. The method comprises determining an adjusted set point for the steering system based on the inverse of the hysteresis model, the desired set point, and a current operating point in the hysteresis model. The adjusted set point defines an adjusted control signal. The method comprises compensating for the backlash in the steering house by providing the adjusted control signal, instead of the control signal, as input to the electric motor.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods are disclosed for separating oil from a blow-by gas of an engine. An example includes a method that includes passing the blow-by gas to a first oil separating apparatus and a second oil separating apparatus, wherein the first oil separating apparatus and the second oil separating apparatus are physically coupled together along interfacing surfaces and in fluid communication with one another as an array, separating the blow-by gas by passing the blow-by gas through respective filters of the first oil separating apparatus and the second oil separating apparatus, removing the oil from the blow-by gas with the respective filters and recombining the blow-by gas after passing from the respective filters; passing the blow-by gas as a single flow stream from the first oil separating apparatus and the second oil separating apparatus.

Abstract: A cylinder liner for providing reduced oil carry-over in an air-assisted fuel injection system comprising an air compression piston wherein the cylinder liner and air compression system together in part define an air compression chamber, the cylinder liner comprising: an outer surface; and a plurality of projections on the outer surface; wherein the plurality of projections are arranged such that oil-laden air drawn up from an oil reservoir around the outer surface of the cylinder liner is forced into a labyrinthine path to increase the time the oil-laden air is in contact with the outer surface and increase the amount of oil adhering to the outer surface to minimize the amount of oil carry-over entering the air compression chamber.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a method and to a control system for controlling an active suspension of a vehicle, the control system comprising one or more controllers, the control system configured to: obtain information indicative of a change of gradient of a driving surface in a direction of travel; and control the active suspension to adjust relative ride height between a front and rear of a vehicle body of the vehicle above the driving surface beneath the vehicle in dependence on the change of gradient.

Abstract: A method for determining a trailer angle between a tow vehicle and a trailer attached to the tow vehicle includes receiving images from a camera positioned on a rear portion of the tow vehicle with a data processing hardware device, determining visual features from the images, tracking the visual features while the tow vehicle and trailer are moving and calculating, at the data processing hardware, the trailer angle based on the visual features. The trailer angle is then transmitted from the data processing hardware to one or more vehicle systems.

Abstract: A steering control device according to the present invention has an electromagnetic clutch (34) built into an electric motor (14B). The electromagnetic clutch (34) is provided with: an armature (61) connected to a first closing member (33) via a guide member (68), a coil holding part (59), and a bolt (65); a clutch plate (62) connected to a rotor (31) via a clutch plate attachment member (64), a key (69), and a motor shaft (32); and an excitation coil (60) held by the coil holding part (59). The armature (61) is fastened with the clutch plate (62) when not attracted to the excitation coil (60) during a power supply failure of the electric motor (14B), and regulates relative rotation of the rotor (31) with respect to a motor housing (29), Steering of a rack bar (10B) is thereby restricted at an optional steering position via the motor shaft (32), a worm shaft (25), and a steering shaft (8B).

Abstract: The vehicle stop holding device that holds the stop of the vehicle and includes an ECU. The ECU configured to execute takeover control for taking over the operation of a brake device to a driver after the ECU stops the vehicle by the brake device in case where it is determined that the backup control for holding the stop state of the vehicle by a brake holding device cannot be realized and the getting-off operation by the driver is detected, and to execute takeover control after the ECU stops the vehicle by the brake device when a grace time required for the takeover control elapses from a reference time after a determination in case where it is determined that the backup control for holding the stop state of the vehicle by the brake holding device cannot be realized and the getting-off operation by the driver is not detected.

Abstract: A gas-liquid separator comprises a housing comprising a first inlet structured to receive a blowby gas stream, the blowby gas stream having a first flow velocity, and a second inlet structured to a communicate a compressed gas into the housing, at least a portion of the second inlet disposed within the first inlet. An elastomeric nozzle is coupled to the first inlet and positioned around the second inlet, the elastomeric nozzle structured to combine the blowby gas stream with the compressed gas such that the compressed gas causes the blowby gas stream to flow at a second flow velocity that is greater than the first flow velocity. An impaction plate is disposed downstream of the elastomeric nozzle such that the blowby gas stream impacts the impaction plate and separates liquid and aerosol contained in the blowby gas stream.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for dissipating heat from a vehicle, a storage medium, and a vehicle. The method includes the following steps: determining a target opening angle of an active air-intake grille based on a current vehicle-speed and a current heat-dissipation demand of the vehicle while the vehicle is in a driving state; determining a residual heat-dissipation demand of the vehicle based on the current heat-dissipation demand and a heat-dissipation demand that can be provided by the target opening angle; determining, according to the residual heat-dissipation demand, the target speed gear required for the cooling fan of the vehicle to provide the residual heat-dissipation demand; and adjusting an opening angle of the active air-intake grille of the vehicle to the target opening angle and a speed gear of the cooling fan to the target speed gear, to perform a heat dissipation for the vehicle.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an anti-slide system of a rail vehicle includes a slip control device, which is designed to determine a slip between the wheel and a rail operatively connected thereto from the sensed state variables, the slip control device being designed to actuate the actuator by the output device. The control apparatus further has a slip limiting device, which is designed to specify a slip range for the slip control device, wherein the slip limiting device has at least a first operating mode and a second operating mode, which can be switched over by an operating mode signal, wherein a first slip range is assigned to the first operating mode and a second slip range is assigned to the second operating mode. A corresponding control method makes control of an actuation value for the actuator possible in order to adjust the slip in a predetermined slip range.

Abstract: An opposed-piston engine includes: a cylinder having a scavenging port on one side in an axial direction and an exhaust port on another side in the axial direction, a scavenging-side piston disposed inside the cylinder on the one side in the axial direction, an exhaust-side piston disposed inside the cylinder on the other side in the axial direction; and at least one fuel injection device configured to inject fuel between the scavenging-side piston and the exhaust-side piston inside the cylinder. A top surface of the exhaust-side piston is formed in a flat shape, a top surface of the scavenging-side piston has a scavenging-side cavity with a predetermined cavity volume, and the at least one fuel injection device includes at least one scavenging-side fuel injection device having a central axis inclined to the one side in the axial direction toward an inner side in a radial direction of the cylinder.

Abstract: A method controls a first vehicle in respect of an oncoming second vehicle. The method determines a turning situation of the first vehicle, in which an expected first trajectory of the first vehicle crosses an expected second trajectory of the second vehicle, and controls the first vehicle in such a way that, during the turning situation, a predetermined distance between the vehicles is maintained. The control includes an influencing of the direction of travel of the first vehicle.

Abstract: The invention is based on an impactor-separator element (10) for separating fluid droplets (12) from a gas stream, comprising at least one separator means (14a, 14b) having a raw side and a clean side, said separator means (14a, 14b) being designed as a mesh or grid element and being fixed in a holder (16), wherein the holder (16) is designed to position the separator means (14a, 14b) with a shallow angle of attack in the gas stream. It is proposed to provide at least one element (36, 46) arranged in the gas flow upstream of the separation means (14a) for controlling the gas flow impinging on the separation means.

Abstract: A control device for a variable compression ratio mechanism for changing a compression ratio of an internal combustion engine by rotating a control shaft connected to an output shaft of an actuator, wherein with respect to a reference position, the control device determines the rotation angle of the control shaft by sequentially integrating the output values of an angle sensor that detects the rotation angle of the output shaft of the actuator in a range of 0° to 360° such that the rotation angle approaches a target angle. When the internal combustion engine is stopped, the control device rotates the control shaft to a high-compression-ratio side and a low-compression-ratio side, respectively, toward a stopper mechanism that defines the rotatable range and compares the determined rotation angle and a reference operation angle to diagnose whether a failure has occurred in the variable compression ratio mechanism.

Abstract: An engine includes: a cylinder block that has a cylinder included in a combustion chamber; a crankshaft that is placed in the cylinder block; a flywheel that is mounted to one end portion of the crankshaft; and a flywheel housing that is placed on a side of one end face of the cylinder block in a direction of the crankshaft and that houses the flywheel. The flywheel housing has a blow-by gas path through which a blow-by gas passes.

Abstract: Provided is an automatic train tracking method, including: acquiring and displaying a real-time video image captured by a current image capture device (S101); wherein a plurality of image capture devices are sequentially arranged beforehand in a traveling direction of a train on a traveling route; detecting, based on the real-time video image, whether the train currently enters a capture range of the current image capture device (S102); taking, when it is detected that the train enters the capture range of the current image capture device, a next image capture device as the current image capture device (S103), returning to the step of acquiring and displaying a real-time video image captured by the current image capture device (S101), wherein the next image capture device is an image capture device adjacent to the current image capture device in the traveling direction. Further disclosed is an automatic train tracking system.