Patents by Inventor REZA ZARRINGHALAM
REZA ZARRINGHALAM 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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Publication number: 20220234651Abstract: In various embodiments, methods, systems, and vehicle apparatuses are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Wenhao Wu, Jayant Sachdev, Bret T. Schulte, Reza Zarringhalam
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Patent number: 11390285Abstract: An automated lane change system for a motor vehicle includes one or more environmental sensors for generating an input signal indicative of a position of an object relative to the motor vehicle, with the object being disposed at a distance from the motor vehicle. The input signal is further indicative of a velocity of the object relative to the motor vehicle. The system further includes a steering wheel sensor generating a gripped signal, in response to a driver gripping a steering wheel. A controller generates an activation signal, in response to the controller receiving the input signal from the environmental sensor and the gripped signal from the steering wheel sensor. An actuator controls the steering wheel, a propulsion mechanism, and a braking mechanism for maneuvering the motor vehicle from a current driving lane to a target driving lane, in response to the actuator receiving the activation signal from the controller.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Paul A Adam, Gabriel T Choi, Daryl A Wilson, Tetyana V Mamchuk, Reza Zarringhalam
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Publication number: 20220144266Abstract: In various embodiments, methods, systems, and vehicle apparatuses are provided. A method for implementing a lane-keeping assist unit of a vehicle by receiving information of a plurality of road geometries, and driving scenarios wherein at least one driving scenario is combined with a target path that is parallel and biased from a lane center by a desired path offset, and a reference path for guiding the vehicle to merge with the target path; adapting the reference path with control based on a selected road geometry and driving scenario; adjusting the desired path offset by considering lane markings during an intervention for an inner curve, an outer curve and a straight road; controlling the vehicle trajectory for enabling the vehicle to track the reference path; exiting the intervention once a trajectory tracking performance by the vehicle is confirmed; and aborting once an instability of the trajectory tracking performance is confirmed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Jayant Sachdev, Reza Zarringhalam, Amir Takhmar, Jimmy Zhong Yan Lu, Paul A. Adam, Tetyana V. Mamchuk
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Publication number: 20220144341Abstract: A method for generating a steering command for controlling a vehicle is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Amir Takhmar, Joshua M. Levin, Jimmy Zhong Yan Lu, Jayant Sachdev, Reza Zarringhalam
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Publication number: 20220126823Abstract: An autonomous vehicle and a system and method for operating the autonomous vehicle. The system includes a sensor and a processor. A disturbance force or yaw moment is received on the autonomous vehicle. The sensor measures a position of the autonomous vehicle within a lane of a road with respect to road boundaries and lane markings. The processor is configured to resist an effect of a disturbance force or yaw moment received on the autonomous vehicle. The processor minimizes a tracking error between a path of the autonomous vehicle and an initial track lane, wherein resisting the effect creates an inflection point in the path of the autonomous vehicle, establishes a final track lane at a closer of a lateral position of the inflection point and a lane center to the initial track lane, and tracks the path to the final track lane.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Jimmy Zhong Yan Lu, Mohammadali Shahriari, Reza Zarringhalam
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Publication number: 20220126851Abstract: An autonomous vehicle and a system and method of operating the autonomous vehicle. The system includes a processor. A driver-applied steering torque is received at the autonomous vehicle while the autonomous vehicle is following an initial target path via a path tracking program. The processor receives the driver-applied steering torque and allows a driver to adjust a path of the autonomous vehicle from the initial target path to a final target path determined through the driver-applied steering torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Jimmy Zhong Yan Lu, Mohammadali Shahriari, Reza Zarringhalam
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Patent number: 11299179Abstract: A system to enable an automobile vehicle automated driving control includes a quality index of an automated driving control system prior to enablement of an automated driving control function of an automobile vehicle. An adaptive forward propagation horizon and a prediction horizon for assessment of the quality index are computed. Vehicle states and road geometry are propagated over the adaptive forward propagation horizon, and the quality index is assessed based on forward propagated states over the prediction horizon. A first signal permits actuation of the automated driving control function of the automobile vehicle and a second signal precludes actuation of the automated driving control function. One of the first signal or the second signal is elected based on the results of assessing a quality control index trajectory over the adaptive forward propagation horizon.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Reza Zarringhalam, Mohammadali Shahriari, Amir Takhmar, Zhi Li
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Publication number: 20220097709Abstract: An automated lane change system for a motor vehicle includes one or more environmental sensors for generating an input signal indicative of a position of an object relative to the motor vehicle, with the object being disposed at a distance from the motor vehicle. The input signal is further indicative of a velocity of the object relative to the motor vehicle. The system further includes a steering wheel sensor generating a gripped signal, in response to a driver gripping a steering wheel. A controller generates an activation signal, in response to the controller receiving the input signal from the environmental sensor and the gripped signal from the steering wheel sensor. An actuator controls the steering wheel, a propulsion mechanism, and a braking mechanism for maneuvering the motor vehicle from a current driving lane to a target driving lane, in response to the actuator receiving the activation signal from the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Paul A. Adam, Gabriel T. Choi, Daryl A. Wilson, Tetyana V. Mamchuk, Reza Zarringhalam
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Patent number: 11198437Abstract: A method and apparatus that perform threat zone assessment in a host vehicle are provided. The method includes detecting a target vehicle in a nonadjacent lane with respect to the host vehicle, determining dimensions of the detected target vehicle, a type of the detected target vehicle, and geometry of a road on which the detected target vehicle and the host vehicle are traveling, calculating the threat zone based on the dimensions of the detected target vehicle, the type of the detected target vehicle, or the geometry of the road on which the detected target vehicle and the host vehicle are traveling, and controlling the host vehicle to avoid the calculated threat zone by accelerating the host vehicle, decelerating the host vehicle, or aborting a lane change by the host vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Gurhari Singh, Alaeddin Bani Milhim, Paul A. Adam, Reza Zarringhalam, Amir Takhmar, Mark Gazda, Shaun C. Bowman, Joseph M. Burdge
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Publication number: 20210284199Abstract: A system to enable an automobile vehicle automated driving control includes a quality index of an automated driving control system prior to enablement of an automated driving control function of an automobile vehicle. An adaptive forward propagation horizon and a prediction horizon for assessment of the quality index are computed. Vehicle states and road geometry are propagated over the adaptive forward propagation horizon, and the quality index is assessed based on forward propagated states over the prediction horizon. A first signal permits actuation of the automated driving control function of the automobile vehicle and a second signal precludes actuation of the automated driving control function. One of the first signal or the second signal is elected based on the results of assessing a quality control index trajectory over the adaptive forward propagation horizon.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Reza Zarringhalam, Mohammadali Shahriari, Amir Takhmar, Zhi Li
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Publication number: 20210269025Abstract: An operator offset request for automatic lane following system of an automobile vehicle includes an operator offset request defining a lateral offset distance away from a first travel-line of an automobile vehicle in a displacement path moved until a second travel-line of the automobile is achieved. An operator input setting system when actuated generates an initiation signal forwarded to a controller to input the operator offset request. An achievement signal is generated to signify a selected offset position selected by a vehicle operator for the offset distance is achieved. A vehicle return travel path is elected by the vehicle operator to return the automobile vehicle to the first travel-line from the second travel-line by a return displacement path which is opposite to the displacement path.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Reza Zarringhalam, Mohammadali Shahriari, Wenhao Wu, Paul A. Adam
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Publication number: 20210213959Abstract: A vehicle and a system and method of operating a vehicle. The system includes a processor. The processor learns a driver's behavior of a driver of the vehicle as the driver navigates a road segment, creates a behavior policy based on the driver's behavior and a threshold associated with the road segment, and controls the vehicle to navigate the road segment using the behavior policy.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Mohammadali Shahriari, Amir Takhmar, Reza Zarringhalam
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Publication number: 20200398848Abstract: A method and apparatus that perform threat zone assessment in a host vehicle are provided. The method includes detecting a target vehicle in a nonadjacent lane with respect to the host vehicle, determining dimensions of the detected target vehicle, a type of the detected target vehicle, and geometry of a road on which the detected target vehicle and the host vehicle are traveling, calculating the threat zone based on the dimensions of the detected target vehicle, the type of the detected target vehicle, or the geometry of the road on which the detected target vehicle and the host vehicle are traveling, and controlling the host vehicle to avoid the calculated threat zone by accelerating the host vehicle, decelerating the host vehicle, or aborting a lane change by the host vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Gurhari Singh, Alaeddin Bani Milhim, Paul A. Adam, Reza Zarringhalam, Amir Takhmar, Mark Gazda, Shaun C. Bowman, Joseph M. Burdge
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Publication number: 20190389470Abstract: An automotive vehicle includes at least one sensor configured to detect a lane marking proximate the vehicle, and to detect velocity, acceleration, and yaw rate of the vehicle. The vehicle also includes a controller in communication with the at least one sensor and configured to selectively control a steering intervention system in a first mode and a second mode. The controller is configured to calculate a plurality of lane departure estimations at a corresponding plurality of time instances, arbitrate among the plurality of lane departure estimations to calculate a predictive time to lane departure, calculate a lane departure confidence value associated with the predictive time to lane departure, and, in response to the confidence value exceeding a first threshold and the predictive time to lane departure being below a second threshold, control the steering intervention system in the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2018Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Reza Zarringhalam, Mohammadali Shahriari, Mohammed Raju Hossain, Jayant Sachdev, Amir Takhmar
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Patent number: 10347132Abstract: One general aspect includes a system to send a distress notification, the system including a memory configured to include one or more executable instructions and a processor configured to execute the executable instructions, where the executable instructions enable the processor to: receive pedestrian movement information from a pedestrian detection sensor; receive third-party vehicle movement information from a vehicle detection sensor; and based at least in part on both the pedestrian movement information and third-party vehicle movement information, provide a collision warning notification.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Janakan Chandrakumar, Benjamin J. Gaffney, Reza Zarringhalam
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Patent number: 10204461Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for detecting faults in a sensor and reconstructing an output signal without use of the faulty sensor. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by a processor, sensor data indicating a measured value from a first sensor; receiving, by a processor, sensor data indicating measured values from a plurality of other sensors; computing, by a processor, virtual values based on a vehicle model and the sensor data from the plurality of other sensors; computing, by a processor, a residual difference between the measured value from the first sensor and the virtual values; detecting, by a processor, whether a fault exists in the first sensor based on the residual difference; and when a fault in the sensor is detected, generating, by a processor, a control value based on the virtual values instead of the measured value.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignees: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOOInventors: Shih-Ken Chen, Nikolai K. Moshchuk, Bakhtiar B. Litkouhi, Reza Zarringhalam, Amir Khajepour, William Melek
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Patent number: 10000215Abstract: A method of reconstructing a detected faulty signal. A pitch sensor fault is detected by a processor. A signal of the detected faulty pitch sensor is reconstructed using indirect sensor data. The reconstructed signal is output to a controller to maintain stability.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Shih-Ken Chen, Bakhtiar B. Litkouhi, Amir Khajepour, Reza Zarringhalam, William Melek
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Publication number: 20180025558Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for detecting faults in a sensor and reconstructing an output signal without use of the faulty sensor. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by a processor, sensor data indicating a measured value from a first sensor; receiving, by a processor, sensor data indicating measured values from a plurality of other sensors; computing, by a processor, virtual values based on a vehicle model and the sensor data from the plurality of other sensors; computing, by a processor, a residual difference between the measured value from the first sensor and the virtual values; detecting, by a processor, whether a fault exists in the first sensor based on the residual difference; and when a fault in the sensor is detected, generating, by a processor, a control value based on the virtual values instead of the measured value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicants: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOOInventors: SHIH-KEN CHEN, NIKOLAI K. MOSHCHUK, BAKHTIAR B. LITKOUHI, REZA ZARRINGHALAM, AMIR KHAJEPOUR, WILLIAM MELEK
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Patent number: 9873425Abstract: A method of reconstructing a detected faulty signal. A roll sensor fault is detected by a processor. A signal of the detected faulty roll sensor is reconstructed using indirect sensor data. The reconstructed signal is output to a controller to maintain stability.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Shih-Ken Chen, Bakhtiar B. Litkouhi, Amir Khajepour, William Melek, Reza Zarringhalam
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Publication number: 20170297402Abstract: A method of reconstructing a detected faulty signal. A suspension height fault is detected by a processor. A signal of the detected faulty suspension height sensor is reconstructed using indirect sensor data. The reconstructed signal is output to a controller to maintain stability.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2016Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: SHIH-KEN CHEN, AMIR KHAJEPOUR, WILLIAM MELEK, REZA ZARRINGHALAM, EHSAN HASHEMI