Patents Examined by Lail A Kleinman
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Patent number: 12286170Abstract: A steering-angle control apparatus controls a steering mechanism based on a state command value, which is input in each predetermined period. An interpolation unit interpolates between a previous value and a current value of the input state command value to compute a state interpolation value in an interpolation period, which is shorter than the predetermined period. An interpolation-value determination unit determines whether the state interpolation value is an abnormal value. A control unit controls the steering mechanism based on the state interpolation value computed by the interpolation unit when the interpolation-value determination unit determines that the state interpolation value is not an abnormal value, and controls the steering mechanism based on the current value of the state command value when the interpolation-value determination unit determines that the state interpolation value is an abnormal value.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuusuke Otogawa, Motoaki Kataoka, Haruo Suzuki
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Patent number: 12264922Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include systems, methods, and devices to facilitate routing of an autonomous vehicle (AV) based on pick-up or drop-off zones (PDZs) that are usable by the AV at destination location. A request for one or more PDZs that are usable by a vehicle to perform a pick-up or drop-off operation at a specified location is received from a vehicular autonomy system of the vehicle. A set of PDZs that are usable by the vehicle at the specified location is identified based on an association between information associated with vehicle and one or more PDZ objects in a data store. Each PDZ object comprising data describing a PDZ. A response is generated based on the set of PDZs and transmitted to the vehicular autonomy system. The response includes at least one PDZ identifier to the set of PDZs.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Konrad Julian Niemiec, Jay A. Chen, Shenglong Gao, Mark Yen
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Patent number: 12251974Abstract: A roll vibration damping control system includes an electronic control unit configured to: compute a sum of a product of a roll moment of inertia and a roll angular acceleration of a vehicle body, a product of a roll damping coefficient and a first-order integral of the roll angular acceleration, and a product of an equivalent roll stiffness of the vehicle and a second-order integral of the roll angular acceleration, as a controlled roll moment to be applied to the vehicle body; compute a roll moment around a center of gravity of a sprung mass as a correction roll moment, the roll moment being generated by lateral force on wheels due to roll motion; and compute a target roll moment based on a value obtained by correcting the controlled roll moment with the correction roll moment.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shota Tanzan, Etsuo Katsuyama
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Patent number: 12246735Abstract: Fail-safe is performed appropriately when an automatic driving ECU has a failure. Provided is an in-vehicle electronic control system including a recognition device that recognizes a situation outside a vehicle, a track calculation unit that calculates a track on which the vehicle travels, a failure diagnosis unit that diagnoses a failure of the track calculation unit, and an output unit that outputs a control signal used to control the vehicle, in which a control signal generated based on a brake control instruction generated by the recognition device and a control signal generated based on a track control instruction generated by the track calculation unit are input to the output unit, and when the failure diagnosis unit diagnoses that the track calculation unit has a failure, the output unit outputs a control signal generated based on the brake control instruction generated by the recognition device.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Yamada, Kentaro Yoshimura, Shouji Muramatsu, Tsutomu Kaneko, Toshiyuki Innami, Koichi Yokoura
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Patent number: 12242962Abstract: An optimal rescue orbital elements online decision-making method based on RBFNN for launch vehicles under thrust drop fault includes establishing the flight dynamic equations of launch vehicles in the second-stage ascending phase in the geocentric inertial coordinate system, to construct a series of optimization problems of maximum semi-major axis of circular orbit under the thrust drop fault. The method further includes using the adaptive pseudo-spectrum method to solve the optimization problems of maximum semi-major, and using the maximum and minimum method to normalize the sample data to [?1, 1], using the orthogonal least square method to select the data center of the radial basis function neural network (RBFNN), where the Gaussian function is selected as the radial basis function, and the RBFNN is trained offline to establish a nonlinear mapping relationship from the fault states to the optimal rescue orbital elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Shujun Tan, Xiao He, Liyong Zhang, Zhigang Wu
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Patent number: 12233965Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a steering apparatus and a steering control method. A steering apparatus of the present disclosure comprises: a sensor which measures the steering angle on the basis of the torque of a steering wheel; a steering control module including one electronic control unit that controls a reaction force motor by using information on the steering angle measured by the sensor; and an auxiliary reaction force module which provides a reaction force to a steering shaft or a motor shaft by not applying a current from the electronic control unit during an abnormal operation of the electronic control unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATIONInventor: Hyunchul Tae
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Patent number: 12233918Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for determining objects that are kinematically capable, even if non-compliant with rules-of-the-road, of affecting a trajectory of a vehicle. The computing system (e.g., perception system, etc.) of a vehicle may generate a trajectory for the vehicle and a respective trajectory for each object of a plurality of objects within a field of view (FOV) of the sensing device associated with the vehicle. The computing system may identify objects of the plurality of objects with trajectories that intersect the trajectory for the vehicle and remove from such objects, objects with trajectories that at least one of exit the FOV or intersect with other objects of the plurality of objects within the FOV.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Brent Tweddle, Maen Hammod
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Patent number: 12221127Abstract: A VP carries out vehicle control in accordance with an instruction from an ADK. A vehicle control interface interfaces between the VP and the ADK. The vehicle control interface receives from the ADK, a power supply mode request which is an instruction for controlling a power supply mode of the VP. The power supply mode includes a sleep mode in which a vehicle is in a Ready OFF state, a driving mode in which the vehicle is in a Ready ON state, and a wake mode in which the vehicle control interface is on.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Eisuke Ando
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Patent number: 12220960Abstract: A method for adapting a transfer function of an active suspension of a vehicle comprises the vehicle driving along a section of road for which a surface profile is stored in a control unit of the vehicle. The active suspension is activated according to a predetermined transfer function for adaptation to the surface profile by means of adjustment values in order to compensate for unevenness of the surface profile. A shock absorber sensor system and/or a tire sensor system of the vehicle is used to record vertical accelerations while driving along the section of road and transfer them to the control unit. The invention provides that the adjustment values and the vertical accelerations are transferred by the vehicle to an external central computer.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventor: Thomas Smits
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Patent number: 12201044Abstract: One variation of a method for executing agricultural actions on an agricultural field includes: based a type of a crop planted on the agricultural field and a maturity of the crop, setting a nominal blade gap width of a weeding module installed in an autonomous agricultural vehicle; and, at the autonomous agricultural vehicle, while autonomously traversing the agricultural field, detecting a first target plant passing under the autonomous agricultural vehicle and aligned with the weeding module, triggering the weeding module to open a set of weeding blades to the nominal blade gap width at a nominal blade speed in response to the first target plant approaching the weeding module, and triggering the weeding module to close the set of weeding blades in response to the first target plant passing the weeding module.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: FarmWise Labs, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Palomares, Sébastien Boyer, Arthur Flajolet, Eric Stahl-David
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Patent number: 12205481Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for determining, by a processor, an unmanned aerial system (UAS) position relative to at least one flight boundary; and effecting, by the processor, at least one flight limitation of a UAS if the determined UAS position crosses the at least one flight boundary.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Joseph Thurling, Joseph Frank Mohos
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Patent number: 12202499Abstract: There is provided a control system for controlling a system, the control system comprising one or more controllers, configured to: receive a rule configuration signal, the rule configuration signal specifying properties of a rule, the properties comprising an indicator of an action to be carried out and at least one associated trigger condition; store the indicator of the action and the at least one associated trigger condition at a storage location; determine whether the rule is to be evaluated by the control system; and if the determination indicates that the rule is to be evaluated by the control system, and upon the at least one associated trigger condition being met: generate at least one control signal in accordance with the indicated action; and output the at least one control signal to at least one vehicle system to be controlled.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover LimitedInventors: Zhou Xu, Thomas Popham, Jonathan Randall, Peter Thomas, David Oxtoby
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Patent number: 12194986Abstract: An autonomous valet parking system includes a terminal device, a vehicle, and a server device installed to a parking lot. When receiving a temporary key request from a server device, a terminal device verifies the request, generates a temporary key, and transmits the temporary key to a vehicle and the server device. The server device determines a target parking position of the vehicle, and transmits, to the vehicle, the temporary key and target position information. The vehicle verifies the temporary keys from the terminal device and the server device, generates a drive plan including a route to the target parking position, and transmits the drive plan to the server device. The server device verifies whether the drive plan is available, and notifies the vehicle. When the drive plan is verified to be available by the server device, the vehicle executes autonomous driving control according to the drive plan.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Sirinda Khurewattanakul, Masashi Watanabe, Shohei Hattori
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Patent number: 12169240Abstract: Systems and methods for positioning objects in underwater environments are provided. The geolocation of a target for an object is determined, and a light source provided as part of a positioning system is operated to project a visible target at that location. The determination of the target location relative to the positioning system can include determining a location of the positioning system using information obtained from a laser system included in the positioning system. The light source used to project the visible target can be the same as a light source included in the laser system. A location of an object relative to the target location can be tracked by the laser system as the object is being moved towards the target location. The described methods and systems utilize one or more non-touch subsea optical systems, including but not limited to laser systems, for underwater infrastructure installation, measurements and monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: 3D at Depth, Inc.Inventors: Carl W. Embry, Neil Manning, Derek D. Pierce, Mark Hardy
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Patent number: 12161060Abstract: A mobile turf sprayer operates to spray a product onto a turf site. In some embodiments the mobile turf sprayer identifies a plurality of regions of the turf site to be sprayed and automatically sprays product onto those regions as the mobile turf sprayer moves about the turf site.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: The Toro CompanyInventors: William J. Jugovich, Todd A. Otto, Steven R. Peterson, Brannon W. Polk, Steve A. Swinney, II
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Patent number: 12164036Abstract: A control system is suitable for use in a motor vehicle and is configured and intended for detecting a position and/or a speed of an object in the surroundings of the host motor vehicle according to determined objects and/or according to driving-related information concerning other motor vehicles, based on surroundings data from at least one surroundings sensor situated on the host motor vehicle and provided to the control system. Based on these surroundings data, an object in the surroundings of the host motor vehicle is detected, and a virtual position and/or a virtual speed are/is associated with this object. The virtual position and/or speed associated with the object are/is adapted based on the driving-related information concerning another motor vehicle and/or based on driving-related information concerning the host motor vehicle, in order to determine an instantaneous position and/or an instantaneous speed of the object.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: ZF Active Safety GmbHInventors: Johannes Stiller, Eugen Ziegler
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Patent number: 12154394Abstract: Techniques for using dynamic comparison groups to assess driving safety are provided. Customizable comparison groups of vehicle operator's may be created based upon specific parameters. Drivers belonging to each specific comparison group may be ranked among one another based upon a comparison of telematics data that is associated with each vehicle, which may indicate various metrics associated with each driver's driving safety. By providing each driver's ranking within comparison groups, a gamified interface and user interaction is achieved, which promotes competition and acts as an incentive for the drivers to drive safer and avoid risk. Additional incentives may be provided in the form of automobile insurance premium discounts and recommendations for improving the driver's ranking.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Eric Webster, Eric Dahl, Blake Konrardy
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Patent number: 12128726Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products relating to jerk of a vehicle damper are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Volvo Car CorporationInventors: Axel Jonson, Anton Albinsson
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Patent number: 12077151Abstract: A method for operating a car park parking system of a car park involves determining a current state of occupancy of the car park and assigning a quick-access parking space to a motor vehicle to be parked depending on the determined state of occupancy. The motor vehicle to be parked is brought driverlessly to the assigned quick-access parking space. An information message is communicated to a user of the motor vehicle to be parked depending on a decision criterion. The information message proposes a pick-up time, and, following acceptance of the proposed pick-up time by the user, the motor vehicle to be parked is brought driverlessly from the quick-access parking space to a long-stay parking space.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AGInventor: Tobias Hug
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Patent number: 12078506Abstract: The region segmentation apparatus and method for map decomposition of a robot according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure segment the grid map into a plurality of regions in consideration of the graphic characteristic of the space and obstacles disposed in the space.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignees: Yujin Robot Co., Ltd., Miele & Cie. KGInventors: Seong Ju Park, Chang Soo Kim, Ji Gwan Park, Jin Baek Kim, Dong Hyeon Seo