Abstract: A system and method for various vehicle-related applications is provided. The system includes a brain-machine interface (BMI) including a plurality of electrodes and control circuitry coupled to the plurality of electrodes. The control circuitry captures a plurality of brainwave signals via the plurality of electrodes and determines control information indicative of an intention to perform a specific task using one or more components of the vehicle. The control information is determined based on the captured plurality of brainwave signals. Further, the control circuitry controls the one or more components of the vehicle so as to provide assistance to perform the specific task. The one or more components of the vehicle are controlled based on the determined control information.

Abstract: A system of creating a simulation to simulate behavior of an autonomous vehicle includes a simulation system having an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium having one or more programming instructions. When executed, the one or more programming instructions cause the electronic device to identify an event that is to be analyzed, receive from an autonomous vehicle system a first data stream that includes event information from one or more vehicle event log files that corresponds to the event, receive from a vehicle dynamics model a second data stream that includes synthetic event information that corresponds to the event, until a switch point is detected operate in a pure log execution stage, upon detection of the switch point operate in a play-forward execution stage, and cause the new simulation to be executed.

Abstract: A method of increasing the processing speed of a computer having a computer processing unit that executes a nonlinear optimization routine is described. A favorable approximation of the derivative f?(x+?d) at the critical point can be obtained by one differential calculation at each search step. As a result, when a large-scale nonlinear optimization problem requiring a large amount of calculations is processed, mk at each search step is reduced and consequently the calculation time T is reduced significantly.

Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus includes management of coasting during operation of a vehicle having an engine that is selectively engageable to a driveline, a cruise control mode of operation, and a road speed governor mode of operation. A road speed governor mode of operation of the vehicle is active in response to a road speed governor operation condition being present wherein the driveline is engaged with the engine. When a coasting management condition is present, operation of the vehicle in the road speed governor mode is disabled, the driveline is disengaged from the engine, and the vehicle is operated in a coasting mode of operation. The coasting mode of operation can be canceled when a coasting mode of operation cancellation condition is present to operate the vehicle in a road speed governor mode of operation with the driveline re-engaged with the engine.

Abstract: In a vehicle control system (1) configured for autonomous driving, a control unit (15) invokes an autonomous stopping mode when an intervention detection unit (10, 11, 13, 33) has failed to detect an acceptance of a driving intervention request by the driver when the driving intervention request is notified by a notification interface (31, 32), and the control unit restricts a functionality of the autonomous driving after the autonomous stopping mode has been invoked due to a driver's failure.

Abstract: An automated travel vehicle assistance system includes: plural first vehicles, each of which is used for movement of a user; one or more types of second vehicles, each of which has a different function from the first vehicle; and a server that manages operation of the first vehicles and the second vehicles. A first information processing section of the first vehicle generates a service request on the basis of a specified condition, and, when receiving the service request from the first vehicle, the server determines at least one of the first vehicle, which differs from the above first vehicle, and the second vehicle as a service-providing vehicle and generates a service provision instruction to dispatch the determined service-providing vehicle to the first vehicle transmitting the service request.