Disclosed is a method for controlling the braking effort of a tractor unit relative to the braking effort of a trailer being towed by the tractor unit, the method comprising: activating an enhanced braking mode in the tractor unit; receiving a braking command from an operator input device whilst in…
The invention relates in one aspect to a method for controlling the braking effort of a tractor unit (10) relative to the braking effort of a trailer (17) being towed by the tractor unit, the method comprising: activating an enhanced braking mode in the tractor unit; receiving a braking command…
Among other things, a vehicle drives autonomously on a trajectory through a road network to a goal location based on an automatic process for planning the trajectory without human intervention; and an automatic process alters the planning of the trajectory to reach a target location based on a…
The proposed invention relates to methods for controlling energy consumption by a motor vehicle and can be used in transportation industry. The technical problem to be solved by the claimed invention is to provide a method, a device and a system that do not possess the drawbacks of the prior art…
A materials handling vehicle comprises a processor, a throttle, and a zone sensing subsystem coupled to the processor. The processor, responsive to the zone sensing subsystem detecting that the materials handling vehicle is in a restricted operational zone, controls the materials handling vehicle…
The proposed invention relates to methods for controlling energy consumption by a motor vehicle and can be used in transportation industry. The technical problem to be solved by the claimed invention is to provide a method, a device and a system that do not possess the drawbacks of the prior art…
A method comprises determining a vectorized representation of positions of road agents and road geometry based on sensor data from a vehicle, inputting the vectorized representation of the positions of the road agents and the road geometry into a trained transformer network, predicting one or more…
Systems and methods for a materials handling vehicle configured to navigate along a warehouse environment inventory transit surface, the vehicle including control architecture in communication with a drive mechanism, a materials handling mechanism, a speed zone sensing subsystem configured to…
A smart governor system that intercepts and adjusts throttle commands when certain criteria are met based on vehicle operations and a user-selected transmission mode. The governor, when engaged, reduces a throttle command in order limit engine and/or ground speed.
A method for processing throttle control signal being adapted to an electronic speed control (1) which is arranged with a throttle signal interface (12) for receiving a throttle control signal and a communication interface (13) for transmitting communication data, the method including: monitoring a…
An apparatus for assisting driving of a host vehicle includes: a camera mounted on the host vehicle and having a field of view outside of the host vehicle, the camera configured to acquire image data; and a controller configured to: process the image data, identify a speed limit of a road on which…
A tractor includes a controller configured to make a determination as to whether stopping control is necessary and to start the stopping control, based on a relation between a target bale size and a current bale size and a stopping distance corresponding to a vehicle speed and a surrounding…
Based on a parking frame certainty degree indicative of a degree of certainty about a presence is a parking frame in the travel direction of the vehicle and a parking frame entering certainty degree indicative of a degree of certainty about whether the vehicle enters the parking frame, a total…
A method for controlling an internal combustion engine (1) which provides for determining the current value of the driving torque (C) requested to the internal combustion engine (1) and the first time derivative (C) of the current value of the driving torque; comparing the current value of the…
The method involves determining initial speed (26) and target speed (27) of a vehicle (1). Rolling paths (17, 18, 22) of the vehicle are determined, where the vehicle is slowed down in the rolling paths in an idle operating state or in a push shutdown mode to the initial speed to target velocity…
The present invention relates to a vehicle speed stabilization system (1) comprising: at least one GPS receiver (2) which receives the signals coming from the GPS satellites (G); at least one body control module (3) which receives the latitude - longitude information of the location at which the…
Apparatus, methods and computer readable media for speed management and control, including logic executable to determine a present geographic position of a wireless device, logic executable to determine a speed limit corresponding to the present geographic position, and logic executable to…
A navigation system utilizing a warning generating apparatus is disclosed. The warning generating apparatus includes a data receiving unit for receiving route guidance information data and current weather/time information from an external information center; a data analyzing unit for judging…
Motor vehicle has an arrangement for detection of traffic signs, for evaluation of their information content and for regulation of the motor vehicle speed based on a detected speed limit. The speed regulation unit (2) calculates a speed change from the current speed and detected speed and regulates…
The vehicle driving force control apparatus includes a target driving force computing component (1, 101, 201) that is configured to calculate a target driving force. The vehicle driving force control apparatus further includes a zone attribute detecting component (4) that is configured to detect…
A method is disclosed for controlling a vehicle, said vehicle having a cruise control system (1) being connected with a position input connection (5), for receiving vehicle position information from a positioning system (11), a map database (3), a driver information database (4), and an output…
A process for the control and/or regulation of motor vehicle speed combines cruise control and automatic braking such that the velocities of each and any offset between them are dynamically adjusted in respect of target values.
The present invention relates to the integration of an on-board navigation system to provide energy management for an electric vehicle (EV)or a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). A vehicle system controller 46 integrates the navigation system information with energy management while en route to a known…
Up-to-date defined routes (A) equal a course of routes determined and corrected by map matching. General map matching quality can be determined by evaluating a single-dimensional correlation to use map matching to produce the right quality for matching downstream stored routes (B) to the up-to-date…
The method involves determining a motorway exit (4) probability when controlling the longitudinal movement based on a predetermined desired distance (dsoll) to a previous vehicle (1) using information of the navigation systems. Longitudinal acceleration is prevented or at least minimized when the…
The probability of a vehicle entering a high-way is determined based on the roadway information obtained from the navigation system of the vehicle. The longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle is set to be greater than that during regular operation, when the probability is greater than a specified…