Patents by Inventor Jon D. Demerly
Jon D. Demerly has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11279358Abstract: A system and method for controlling the velocity of a vehicle includes a processor, a velocity sensor in communication with the processor, a throttle actuator in communication with the processor, and a brake actuator in communication with the processor. The processor is set either the throttle position of the vehicle via the throttle actuator or the brake pedal position of the vehicle via the brake actuator based whether the augmented acceleration is greater than or equal to a gear acceleration, whether the actual velocity is above a crawl speed, and a lookup table.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Veoneer US, Inc.Inventors: Jon D. Demerly, Hsin-Hsiang Yang
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Patent number: 11203377Abstract: A system and method for controlling the steering of a vehicle includes a processor, a velocity sensor in communication with the processor a steering angle sensor in communication with the processor, accelerometer in communication with the processor and a steering angle controller in communication with the processor. The processor is configured to receive the acceleration of the vehicle from the accelerometer and the velocity from the velocity sensor, determine the estimated tie-rod force utilizing the lookup table tie-rod force estimation lookup table, and instruct the steering wheel angle controller to apply an additional force substantially equal to the estimated tie-rod force to the steering torque.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: VEONEER US, INC.Inventors: Jon D. Demerly, Hsin-Hsiang Yang
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Publication number: 20200300967Abstract: A method for performing a sensor verification for a vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle includes a first sensor and a second sensor, wherein a first sensor coordinate system of the first sensor and a second sensor coordinate system of the second sensor are related to a vehicle coordinate system, and wherein the first sensor and the second sensor have an at least partly overlapping observable space. The method includes determining a first position of an external object located in the at least partly overlapping observable space by means of the first sensor of the vehicle, and determining a second position of the external object by means of the second sensor of the vehicle. The method includes comparing the determined first and second positions in relation to any one of the first sensor coordinate system, second sensor coordinate system or vehicle coordinate system in order to form a first comparison value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Jon D. DEMERLY, Ryan BROWN, Mark BEELER, Kaice REILLY, James POPLAWSKI
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Publication number: 20200301420Abstract: A system and method for controlling the velocity and heading of a vehicle includes a processor, a steering controller in communication with the processor, and a speed controller in communication with the processor. The steering controller is arranged within the vehicle and is configured to control the steering angle of the vehicle. The speed controller is arranged within the vehicle and is configured to control the velocity of the vehicle. The processor is configured to receive an array of control commands, the array of control commands include steering angle positions and velocities of the vehicle for a present time and a preview time and generate a control request for instructing the steering controller and the speed controller based on the steering angle positions and velocities of the vehicle for both the present time and the preview time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Jon D. Demerly, Hsin-Hsiang Yang
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Publication number: 20200298855Abstract: A system and method for controlling the velocity of a vehicle includes a processor, a velocity sensor in communication with the processor, a throttle actuator in communication with the processor, and a brake actuator in communication with the processor. The processor is set either the throttle position of the vehicle via the throttle actuator or the brake pedal position of the vehicle via the brake actuator based whether the augmented acceleration is greater than or equal to a gear acceleration, whether the actual velocity is above a crawl speed, and a lookup table.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Jon D. Demerly, Hsin-Hsiang Yang
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Publication number: 20200298905Abstract: A system and method for controlling the steering of a vehicle includes a processor, a velocity sensor in communication with the processor a steering angle sensor in communication with the processor, accelerometer in communication with the processor and a steering angle controller in communication with the processor. The processor is configured to receive the acceleration of the vehicle from the accelerometer and the velocity from the velocity sensor, determine the estimated tie-rod force utilizing the lookup table tie-rod force estimation lookup table, and instruct the steering wheel angle controller to apply an additional force substantially equal to the estimated tie-rod force to the steering torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Jon D. Demerly, Hsin-Hsiang Yang
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Publication number: 20200191951Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for safety monitoring of a safety zone under and in near vicinity around a parked autonomous vehicle before driving, wherein the method comprise acquiring sensor data from an active sensor system located on the undercarriage of the vehicle, wherein the active sensor system is arranged to transmit a signal and receive the signal reflected off objects within the safety zone and store sensor data representative of substantially all of the safety zone, repeatedly building a representation of the safety zone by acquiring sensor data from the active sensor system; iteratively aggregating the representations of the safety zone with a statistical model, and continuously analysing the aggregation of representations and determining if a sensitive object is located within the safety zone of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Kaice REILLY, James POPLAWSKI, Mark BEELER, Ryan BROWN, Jon D. DEMERLY
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Patent number: 10599150Abstract: Previous self-driving car systems can detect objects separately with either vision systems, RADAR systems or LIDAR systems. In an embodiment of the present invention, an object fusion module normalizes sensor output from vision, RADAR, and LIDAR systems into a common format. Then, the system fuses the object-level sensor data across all systems by associating all objects detected and predicting tracks for all objects. The present system improves over previous systems by using the data from all sensors combined to develop a single set of knowledge about the objects around the self-driving car, instead of each sensor operating separately.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignees: The Charles Stark Kraper Laboratory, Inc., VEONEER US INC.Inventors: Matthew Graham, Troy Jones, Kyra Horne, Scott Lennox, Jon D. Demerly, Stephen Sheldon Strong, Afrah Faiz Naik
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Patent number: 10392047Abstract: A power steering control system is provided. The control system includes an actual module that determines an actual load torque associated with a vehicle chassis. A steering module generates a steering control signal based on the actual load torque.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding CorporationInventors: Jon D. Demerly, Siddharth H. D'Silva
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Publication number: 20180319423Abstract: A power steering control system is provided. The control system includes an actual module that determines an actual load torque associated with a vehicle chassis. A steering module generates a steering control signal based on the actual load torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: Jon D. Demerly, Siddharth H. D'Silva
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Patent number: 10065673Abstract: A power steering control system is provided. The control system includes an actual module that determines an actual load torque associated with a vehicle chassis. A steering module generates a steering control signal based on the actual load torque.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: STEERING SOLUTIONS IP HOLDING CORPORATIONInventors: Jon D. Demerly, Siddharth H. D'Silva
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Publication number: 20180089538Abstract: Previous self-driving car systems can detect objects separately with either vision systems, RADAR systems or LIDAR systems. In an embodiment of the present invention, an object fusion module normalizes sensor output from vision, RADAR, and LIDAR systems into a common format. Then, the system fuses the object-level sensor data across all systems by associating all objects detected and predicting tracks for all objects. The present system improves over previous systems by using the data from all sensors combined to develop a single set of knowledge about the objects around the self-driving car, instead of each sensor operating separately.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Matthew Graham, Troy Jones, Kyra Horne, Scott Lennox, Jon D. Demerly, Stephen Sheldon Strong, Afrah Faiz Naik
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Patent number: 9121866Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method and system for compensation of inertial sensors. In one implementation a modified moving average is applied to provide dynamic offset compensation for an inertial sensor output that is calculated when a vehicle is in motion.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: AUTOLIV ASP, INC.Inventor: Jon D. Demerly
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Patent number: 8972112Abstract: A steering control method is provided. The method includes determining a dynamic load on a steering system based on a dynamic model; and controlling the steering system based on the dynamic load.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding CorporationInventors: Siddharth H. D'Silva, Jon D. Demerly
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Publication number: 20140260517Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method and system for compensation of inertial sensors. In one implementation a modified moving average is applied to provide dynamic offset compensation for an inertial sensor output that is calculated when a vehicle is in motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Autoliv ASP, Inc.Inventor: Jon D. Demerly
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Publication number: 20140039762Abstract: A steering control method is provided. The method includes determining a dynamic load on a steering system based on a dynamic model; and controlling the steering system based on the dynamic load.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: STEERING SOLUTIONS IP HOLDING CORPORATIONInventors: Siddharth H. D'Silva, Jon D. Demerly
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Publication number: 20140039759Abstract: A power steering control system is provided. The control system includes an actual module that determines an actual load torque associated with a vehicle chassis. A steering module generates a steering control signal based on the actual load torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: STEERING SOLUTIONS IP HOLDING CORPORATIONInventors: Jon D. Demerly, Siddharth H. D'Silva
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Patent number: 8100223Abstract: Systems and methods for determining an absolute position of a motor of an active front steering system of the vehicle are provided. In particular, the systems and methods accurately determine an absolute position of the motor upon startup of the active front steering system.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2006Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Inventors: Sanket S. Amberkar, Farhad Bolourchi, Scott A. Millsap, Jon D. Demerly
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Patent number: 7836991Abstract: Disclosed is a method for assisting the parking of a vehicle. The method includes determining a vehicle position relative to an obstacle. When the relative position meets a first set of criteria, a first torque pulse is delivered to the steering wheel in the first direction to cue an operator of the vehicle to turn the steering wheel in the first direction. When the relative position meets a second set of criteria, a second torque pulse is delivered to the steering wheel in the second direction, opposite to the first direction to cue the operator to turn the steering wheel in the second direction. A system for assisting the parking of a vehicle is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2008Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.Inventors: Farhad Bolourchi, Steven L. Tracht, Scott Millsap, Timothy W. Kaufmann, Jon D. Demerly
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Patent number: 7530422Abstract: A steering system with reduced coupling between a position overlay unit and a torque overlay unit may include a remote valve assembly for controlling a hydraulic assist force or an electric motor for providing torque overlay and electric assist to a rack of a rack and pinion steering system. In one embodiment, the position overlay unit may provide the assist force and the torque overlay unit may provide a motor command signal to the motor of a differential positioned on a steering shaft. In another embodiment, the position overlay unit may provide the motor command signal and the torque overlay unit may provide the assist force. In either embodiment, the position overlay unit may include variable ratio gain that uses a position signal to output a variable ratio command.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2005Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Farhad Bolourchi, Michael J. Augustine, Brian J. Magnus, Jon D. Demerly, Sanket S. Amberkar, Suat A. Ozsoylu, James Card, Karen Boswell