Patents by Inventor Mahmoud A. ABOU-NASR
Mahmoud A. ABOU-NASR 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: 9802599Abstract: A system of one or more computers can be configured to perform particular operations or actions by virtue of having software, firmware, hardware, or a combination of them installed on the system that in operation causes or cause the system to perform the actions. One or more computer programs can be configured to perform particular operations or actions by virtue of including instructions that, when executed by data processing apparatus, cause the apparatus to perform the actions. One general aspect includes sends video data and light detecting and ranging (LIDAR) data to a recurrent neural network (rnn) that includes feedback elements to identify a roadway feature. The system also sends the data to a dynamic convolutional neural network (dcnn) to identify the feature. Output values are sent to a softmax decision network to aggregate the rnn and the dcnn output values and determine a vehicle positional location on the roadway.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Mahmoud A. Abou-Nasr, Dimitar Petrov Filev
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Publication number: 20170259801Abstract: A system of one or more computers can be configured to perform particular operations or actions by virtue of having software, firmware, hardware, or a combination of them installed on the system that in operation causes or cause the system to perform the actions. One or more computer programs can be configured to perform particular operations or actions by virtue of including instructions that, when executed by data processing apparatus, cause the apparatus to perform the actions. One general aspect includes sends video data and light detecting and ranging (LIDAR) data to a recurrent neural network (rnn) that includes feedback elements to identify a roadway feature. The system also sends the data to a dynamic convolutional neural network (dcnn) to identify the feature. Output values are sent to a softmax decision network to aggregate the rnn and the dcnn output values and determine a vehicle positional location on the roadway.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2016Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mahmoud A. Abou-Nasr, Dimitar Petrov Filev
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Patent number: 9725098Abstract: A user gesture is detected based on received data from one or more motion sensors. User gesture attributes are identified including at least one of hand vectoring, wrist articulation, and finger articulation from the gesture including respective movements of each of a plurality of a user's fingers. Based on the gesture attributes, a user and an action to be performed in a vehicle are identified. The action is performed in the vehicle to control at least one vehicle component based on the gesture.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Mahmoud A. Abou-Nasr, Devinder Singh Kochhar, Walter Joseph Talamonti
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Patent number: 9663112Abstract: A vehicle system includes a driver identification fusion module programmed to receive a confidence level from a plurality of identification modules. Each confidence level indicates the likelihood that a driver of a vehicle is a particular person. The driver identification fusion module is programmed to aggregate the confidences levels received from the plurality of identification modules and output an aggregated confidence level signal representing an identity of the driver based at least in part on the confidence levels received from the plurality of identification modules.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mahmoud A. Abou-Nasr, Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Ryan Lee Baker, Timothy Mark Feldkamp, Arun Dutta
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Patent number: 9344011Abstract: A system for generating power for an electric sub-assembly of a motor vehicle may include at least one reverse electrowetting energy harvesting element coupled to a tire of the motor vehicle. The system may further include at least one controller configured to accumulate electric energy generated by the at least one reverse electrowetting energy harvesting element and supply the accumulated electric energy to at least one sub-assembly mounted on the tire.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Mahmoud A. Abou-Nasr, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Cynthia Mowery Flanigan, David Scott Rohweder, Janice Lisa Tardiff
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Patent number: 9314878Abstract: An aluminum welding system includes a welding machine configured to weld a workpiece with an aluminum nugget and a measurement device configured to measure an attribute of at least one of the aluminum nugget and a welding process. The system further includes a processing device configured to output a weld quality signal representing a quality of an aluminum weld based at least in part on the attribute measured. A method includes measuring an attribute of at least one of an aluminum nugget forming a joint of a workpiece and a welding process, determining a quality of an aluminum weld based at least in part on the attribute measured, and outputting a weld quality signal representing the determined quality.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mahmoud A. Abou-Nasr, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Elizabeth Therese Hetrick, William C. Moision
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Publication number: 20160101783Abstract: A vehicle system includes a driver identification fusion module programmed to receive a confidence level from a plurality of identification modules. Each confidence level indicates the likelihood that a driver of a vehicle is a particular person. The driver identification fusion module is programmed to aggregate the confidences levels received from the plurality of identification modules and output an aggregated confidence level signal representing an identity of the driver based at least in part on the confidence levels received from the plurality of identification modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Mahmoud A. Abou-Nasr, Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Ryan Lee Baker, Timothy Mark Feldkamp, Arun Dutta
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Publication number: 20160039429Abstract: A user gesture is detected based on received data from one or more motion sensors. User gesture attributes are identified including at least one of hand vectoring, wrist articulation, and finger articulation from the gesture including respective movements of each of a plurality of a user's fingers. Based on the gesture attributes, a user and an action to be performed in a vehicle are identified. The action is performed in the vehicle to control at least one vehicle component based on the gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Mahmoud A. Abou-Nasr, Devinder Singh Kochhar, Walter Joseph Talamonti
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Patent number: 9115635Abstract: A system and methods for inferring a local engine temperature based on various engine conditions input to a dynamic model are disclosed. In the example system provided, an inferential temperature sensor uses a trainable model to estimate a local metal temperature in an exhaust valve bridge of a cylinder head which thereby allows closed loop control of a coolant flow device independent from engine speed, engine state, coolant flow state or system temperature. In response to estimated local metal temperatures, the methods described further allow thermal management of the engine system to be optimized.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mahmoud Abou-Nasr, Colby Jason Buckman, Dimitar Petrov Filev
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Publication number: 20150222204Abstract: A system for generating power for an electric sub-assembly of a motor vehicle may include at least one reverse electrowetting energy harvesting element coupled to a tire of the motor vehicle. The system may further include at least one controller configured to accumulate electric energy generated by the at least one reverse electrowetting energy harvesting element and supply the accumulated electric energy to at least one sub-assembly mounted on the tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Mahmoud A. ABOU-NASR, Dimitar Petrov FILEV, Cynthia Mowery FLANIGAN, David Scott ROHWEDER, Janice Lisa TARDIFF
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Publication number: 20150069112Abstract: An aluminum welding system includes a welding machine configured to weld a workpiece with an aluminum nugget and a measurement device configured to measure an attribute of at least one of the aluminum nugget and a welding process. The system further includes a processing device configured to output a weld quality signal representing a quality of an aluminum weld based at least in part on the attribute measured. A method includes measuring an attribute of at least one of an aluminum nugget forming a joint of a workpiece and a welding process, determining a quality of an aluminum weld based at least in part on the attribute measured, and outputting a weld quality signal representing the determined quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mahmoud A. ABOU-NASR, Dimitar Petrov FILEV, Elizabeth Therese HETRICK, William C. MOISION
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Patent number: 8965597Abstract: Road grade is modeled over a region in which a vehicle is driven on roadways having a grade that varies over a plurality of predetermined grade ranges. A succession of grade values are generated while operating the vehicle at a predetermined rate, wherein each grade value identifies a respective grade range then being encountered. A Markov chain road-grade model is updated in response to the succession of grade values, wherein the model represents respective elements of probability in a matrix of transition events from each predetermined grade range to a respective next-in-succession grade range. Each element of the matrix has a value ?i,j representing a weighted frequency of transition events from a first respective grade value to a second respective grade value divided by a weighted frequency of transition events initiating from the first respective grade value, so that the matrix successively approximates the road grade of the region.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dimitar P. Filev, John O. Michelini, Steven J. Szwabowski, Diana Yanakiev, Mahmoud Abou-Nasr, I
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Patent number: 8930116Abstract: Vehicle apparatus adjusts a vehicle powertrain of the vehicle in response to a speed setpoint. An optimizer selects a control policy to periodically generate speed adjustments for applying to the speed setpoint to operate at increased efficiency. The control policy is based on a value function providing an optimized solution for a cost model and a transition probability model. The transition probability model corresponds to a driving state defined according to a plurality of dimensions including a time-of-day dimension and a geographic region dimension. The transition probability model and the control policy have inputs based on road grade and speed. The optimizer collects road grade data during routine driving of the vehicle to construct a observed transition probability model and uses divergence between the observed transition probability model and a set of predetermined transition probability models to identify a control policy for use during the routine driving.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, The Regents of the University of MichiganInventors: Dimitar P. Filev, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Kevin McDonough, Steven J. Szwabowski, John O. Michelini, Diana Yanakiev, Mahmoud Abou-Nasr
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Publication number: 20140283764Abstract: A system and methods for inferring a local engine temperature based on various engine conditions input to a dynamic model are disclosed. In the example system provided, an inferential temperature sensor uses a trainable model to estimate a local metal temperature in an exhaust valve bridge of a cylinder head which thereby allows closed loop control of a coolant flow device independent from engine speed, engine state, coolant flow state or system temperature. In response to estimated local metal temperatures, the methods described further allow thermal management of the engine system to be optimized.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2013Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mahmoud Abou-Nasr, Colby Jason Buckman, Dimitar Petrov Filev
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Publication number: 20140244130Abstract: Vehicle apparatus adjusts a vehicle powertrain of the vehicle in response to a speed setpoint. An optimizer selects a control policy to periodically generate speed adjustments for applying to the speed setpoint to operate at increased efficiency. The control policy is based on a value function providing an optimized solution for a cost model and a transition probability model. The transition probability model corresponds to a driving state defined according to a plurality of dimensions including a time-of-day dimension and a geographic region dimension. The transition probability model and the control policy have inputs based on road grade and speed. The optimizer collects road grade data during routine driving of the vehicle to construct a observed transition probability model and uses divergence between the observed transition probability model and a set of predetermined transition probability models to identify a control policy for use during the routine driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2013Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicants: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Dimitar P. Filev, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Kevin McDonough, Steven J. Szwabowski, John O. Michelini, Diana Yanakiev, Mahmoud Abou-Nasr
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Publication number: 20140244067Abstract: Road grade is modeled over a region in which a vehicle is driven on roadways having a grade that varies over a plurality of predetermined grade ranges. A succession of grade values are generated while operating the vehicle at a predetermined rate, wherein each grade value identifies a respective grade range then being encountered. A Markov chain road-grade model is updated in response to the succession of grade values, wherein the model represents respective elements of probability in a matrix of transition events from each predetermined grade range to a respective next-in-succession grade range. Each element of the matrix has a value ?i,j representing a weighted frequency of transition events from a first respective grade value to a second respective grade value divided by a weighted frequency of transition events initiating from the first respective grade value, so that the matrix successively approximates the road grade of the region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2013Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Dimitar P. Filev, John O. Michelini, Steven J. Szwabowski, Diana Yanakiev, Mahmoud Abou-Nasr, I