Abstract: Examples described herein provide a method for detecting front or rear vehicle misalignment using a vehicle sensor of a vehicle. The method includes determining whether the vehicle is in a misalignment detection state. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the vehicle is in the misalignment detection state, determining whether the vehicle is experiencing a misalignment. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the vehicle is experiencing the misalignment, classifying the misalignment as one of a front misalignment or a rear misalignment by comparing a vehicle heading angle to a vehicle motion angle, the vehicle motion angle being determined using sensor data received from the vehicle sensor. The method further includes performing an alignment mitigation action to mitigate negative effects of the misalignment on the vehicle.

Abstract: A system for controlling an internal combustion engine includes an internal combustion engine configured to combust a plurality of fuels including a first fuel having a first energy density and a second fuel having a second energy density, a fuel injector configured to inject the first fuel and to inject the second fuel, and a sensor configured to generate signals that indicate combustion of fuel within the internal combustion engine. They system further includes an electronic control module configured to: receive the signals from the sensor, generate commands to cause the fuel injector to inject fuel, determine whether the injected fuel corresponds to the first fuel or to the second fuel based on the signals from the sensor, and generate adjusted commands to cause the fuel injector to inject fuel based on whether the fuel was determined to correspond to the first fuel or to the second fuel.

Abstract: A vehicle control system and method may include one or more processors that may receive a data set associated with plural waypoint locations along one or more routes. The data set may indicate plural waypoint locations, target arrival time windows for a vehicle system to reach the plural waypoint locations, and priority ranks of the plural waypoint locations. The processors may create and/or adjust a pacing trip plan based on the data set. The pacing trip plan may designate one or more operational settings of the vehicle system as a function of time, distance, and/or location. The pacing trip plan may be created and/or adjusted to direct the vehicle system to reach one or more of the plural waypoint locations within the corresponding target arrival time windows.

Abstract: A method of controlling operation of a vehicle is disclosed, wherein the vehicle comprises an auxiliary braking system and a number of wheel axles each comprising wheels and wheel brakes controllable to brake the wheels, and wherein one or more of the number of wheel axles is a liftable wheel axle. The method comprises the step of controlling at least one of the one or more liftable wheel axles from a lifted position to a lowered position if the at least one liftable wheel axle is in the lifted position and a ratio between an estimated braking capacity of the auxiliary braking system and a current or impending braking need of the vehicle is below a first threshold ratio. The present disclosure further relates to a computer program, a computer-readable medium, a control arrangement, and a vehicle.

Abstract: A method for controlling the traction of a vehicle hydraulic assistance circuit, including a target pressure is applied, a setpoint pressure and a theoretical value of a parameter are determined, a pressure setpoint is applied to the hydraulic pump, equal to the setpoint pressure, and an actual value is measured in the hydraulic assistance circuit. The actual value measured in the hydraulic assistance circuit is compared to the theoretical value, and if a gap between the actual value and the theoretical value is greater than a threshold value, a step of adjusting the setpoint is carried out in which the pressure setpoint of the hydraulic pump is modified so that it is equal to an actual pressure, to within an adjustment coefficient.

Abstract: A vehicle system for controlling operation of a vehicle includes one or more processing circuits configured to set a pre-calibrated value of a steering input device of the vehicle as a center value, the steering input device configured to receive an input from an operator to steer one or more tractive elements of the vehicle, monitor a precheck condition regarding an operational characteristic of the vehicle associated with a straight-line travel of the vehicle, control, in response to the precheck condition not being satisfied for a threshold time, an operation of the vehicle, and update, in response to the precheck condition being satisfied for the threshold time, the center value to be a current steering position value of the steering input device.

Abstract: A technique capable of preventing unintended vehicle starting due to a breakdown includes a vehicle engine malfunction preventing apparatus includes a memory configured to store a pre-selected failure variable list and a diagnostic release variable list, and a processor configured to diagnose whether a vehicle engine is malfunctioning based on the failure variable list. The processor is configured to obtain first vehicle status information corresponding to a failure variable based on the failure variable list, diagnose the vehicle engine as a malfunction to turn off the vehicle engine when the obtained first vehicle status information satisfies a preset diagnostic condition, obtain second vehicle status information corresponding to a diagnostic release variable based on the diagnostic release variable list, and diagnose the vehicle engine as a normal operation to allow the vehicle engine to start when the second vehicle status information satisfies a preset diagnostic release condition.

Abstract: A steering control device includes a processor that controls, as a target, a steering system including a reaction force motor that applies a steering reaction force to a steering shaft and a turning motor that turns a turning wheel, and that executes a reaction force setting process, a phase compensation process, and a reaction force application process. The reaction force setting process is a process of setting the steering reaction force using the phase compensation process. The reaction force application process is a process of operating the reaction force motor so as to produce a reaction force as set by the reaction force setting process. The phase compensation process is a process of performing phase compensation of the steering reaction force in a different manner when a travel mode of a vehicle is different.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a train adjustment method for same-platform “automatic train protection”, a device, and a medium. The method includes the following steps: step A: an interaction process of predicted cross-line train running information, used to achieve real-time synchronous and periodic refresh of train schedule information of two lines; step B: an automatic train association process at a transfer station, using a “magnetic attraction algorithm” to associate and match trains; and step C: an automatic train association process at a non-transfer station. Compared with the prior art, the present invention has advantages of significantly alleviating the work stress of on-site personnel, enhancing the reliability of train control at the transfer station, more comprehensively ensuring passenger transfer convenience, reducing a considerable amount of waiting time at a platform, and the like.

Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle with a steer-by-wire steering system and a driving dynamics control system comprises converting, by the steer-by-wire steering system, a steering specification into a wheel steering angle of steerable wheels of the motor vehicle, and wherein the driving dynamics control system, taking into account a driving direction specification and a driving state of the motor vehicle, carries out an evaluation with respect to a critical driving situation and, if a critical driving situation is detected, stabilizes the motor vehicle by targeted control of at least one brake of the motor vehicle and/or at least one drive unit of the motor vehicle in order to rectify the critical driving situation, wherein, in addition to the driving dynamics control system, a driving state evaluation unit carries out an evaluation with respect to a critical driving situation and, if a critical driving situation is detected by the driving state evaluation unit, the wheel steering angle is changed in ord

Abstract: The application relates to a cylinder head offset chamfer design. An engine includes a cylinder block and a cylinder head assembly. A plurality of cylinders are defined between the cylinder block and the cylinder head. The cylinder head assembly includes a cylinder head, a plurality of channels defined within the cylinder head, the channels fluidly coupled to the plurality of cylinders via a plurality of cylinder ports. Each of the cylinder ports includes a chamfered portion. The cylinder head assembly further includes a plurality of valves, each of the plurality of valves selectively coupled to a respective cylinder port of the plurality of cylinder ports.

Abstract: A brake torque bias control system for a host vehicle is disclosed. The brake torque bias control system includes: devices configured to generate signals; and a control module configured, based on the signals, to bias a first amount of brake torque applied to a first side of the host vehicle to be greater than a second amount of brake torque applied to a second side of the host vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle control device including an electric steering actuator generating a steering force for steering a rear wheel; a trapezoidal screw converting rotational motion generated during driving of the steering actuator into linear motion for steering the rear wheel; a target steering angle setter to set a target steering angle of the rear wheel based on steering by a driver; a steering angle detector to detect a current steering angle of the rear wheel; and an energization controller to control an energized state of the steering actuator. The energization controller executes control of alternately switching between an energized state supplying a current to the steering actuator and a cut-off state to cut off current to the steering actuator, when steering in a direction away from neutral and the target steering angle of the rear wheel is different from the current steering angle, and a value of a current gradually increases.

Abstract: Each control circuit of a control device for a vehicle drives a motor in one of driving modes that are switched according to an operation state of the control circuit of a system other than an own system. The driving modes include an own-system shutdown mode in which the power supply to a winding set of the own system is stopped when the operation state of the control circuit of a system other than the own system is abnormal. Even when the operation state of the control circuit of a system other than the own system is abnormal, each control circuit does not shift the driving mode to the own-system shutdown mode when an own operation state is a specific operation state in which safety problems are deemed unlikely.

Abstract: A computer system has processing circuitry to determine an energy level in a controllable clutch between a gearbox and a combustion engine of a vehicle powertrain. The energy level is indicative of the induced energy in the clutch during a time duration prior to determining the energy level. At least one of an engine start function and an engine off function are controlled depending on the determined energy level in relation to an energy threshold level.

Abstract: A vehicular engine insert may be configured to be disposed within a crankcase of the vehicular engine such that it comprises a body having a passage for a fluid flowable through the crankcase, a nozzle projecting outwardly from the body, and a channel through a thickness of the vehicular engine insert that creates a fluid interconnection between the passage and the nozzle such that the nozzle and the passage are substantially orthogonal to one another.

Abstract: A method in an apparatus, the method comprising maintaining a repertoire of musical pieces at a user profile; receiving a user performance of a musical piece; analyzing the user performance of the musical piece; determining based on analyzing the performance whether the user performance of the musical piece fulfills at least one predetermined criterion; and based on the user performance of the musical piece fulfilling the at least one predetermined criterion, storing the musical piece into the repertoire.

Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a first operation command unit that outputs a first operation command to operate a steering device of a work vehicle in a first steering direction, in a stopped state of the work vehicle, a state monitoring unit that monitors a state of the steering device, a restriction determination unit that determines whether to restrict operation of the steering device in the first steering direction, based on the state during output of the first operation command, and a restriction command unit that restricts the operation of the steering device in the first steering direction, based on the determination by the restriction determination unit.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for plasma assisted combustion are disclosed. An apparatus includes a pre-combustion chamber including a pre-combustion chamber neck having a pre-combustion chamber orifice and the pre-combustion chamber neck including a non-conductive substrate and an electrode embedded in the non-conductive substrate. A method includes introducing a fuel into a pre-combustion chamber of an engine having a main combustion chamber, generating a plasma in the pre-combustion chamber, over-fueling the pre-combustion chamber to form a mixture in the pre-combustion chamber, ceasing the generation of the plasma; igniting the mixture in the pre-combustion chamber through radical induced ignition to produce a combustion gas in the pre-combustion chamber, and channeling the combustion gas via the pre-combustion chamber orifice into the main combustion chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a vehicle has a first actuator for turning a first set of steerable vehicle wheels connected with a first axle of the vehicle. The first actuator turns the first set of steerable vehicle wheels connected with the first axle to cause the vehicle to turn and travel along a desired path. A second actuator turns a second set of steerable vehicle wheels connected with a second axle of the vehicle. A third actuator turns a third set of steerable vehicle wheels connected with a third axle of the vehicle. A control unit controls the second and third actuators connected with the second and third axles to turn the second set of steerable vehicle wheels and the third set of steerable vehicle wheels.