78 results about "Driver/operator" patented technology

Aspects of the disclosure provide a computer-implemented method and system for the assignment of roadside assistance service providers such as tow trucks to distressed vehicles/drivers requiring roadside assistance. The methods and systems may include a roadside assistance service provider system with a collection module, an assignment module, and a feedback module. The collection module collects roadside assistance service provider information and historical statistics from real-world information and stores the information in a database that may then be analyzed using particular rules and formulas. The assignment module assigns particular roadside assistance service providers to particular distressed vehicles/drivers based on one or more characteristics. The feedback module may provide near real-time cues to the tow truck driver's mobile device, such as alerting when the amount of time spent on a task exceeds a predefined threshold, flagging high priority tasks/assignments, providing a step-by-step checklist for the repair.

In response to a driver's braking request operation, for example, the driver's depression of a brake pedal 85, a hybrid vehicle 20 sets a fraction of a regenerative braking torque by a motor MG2 and a fraction of a braking torque by a brake unit 90 relative to a preset braking torque demand Tr* according to the setting of a speed change ratio in a transmission 60 (steps S280, S290, S310, S320, S390, and S400). The hybrid vehicle 20 controls the motor MG2 to output the regenerative braking torque based on the preset braking torque demand Tr* and the set fraction of the regenerative braking torque, while controlling the brake unit 90 to enable the braking torque based on the preset braking force demand Tr* and the regenerative braking torque by the motor MG2 to be applied in a distributive manner at a preset front-rear braking torque distribution ratio ‘d’ to front wheels 39a and 39b and to rear wheels 39c and 39d.

A vehicle control system including a vehicle and a vehicle controller for receiving information regarding the vehicle and its environment and vehicle control input via a vehicle control, applying control logic predefined for the vehicle control input and the information to determine an aspect of the vehicle to control and how to control the aspect, and sending a control directive to at least one vehicle subsystem to carry out the determined control of the aspect, where when the vehicle is in a first operational state the controller allows the vehicle control input to control the vehicle subsystem directly related to the vehicle control input without modification by the controller, and where when the vehicle is in a second operational state the controller uses the vehicle control input to determine a vehicle objective and sends the control directive to any of the vehicle subsystems in order to achieve the vehicle objective.

A fuel cell vehicle is provided with a fuel cell which generates electric power by a reaction of a reaction gas and discharges water, a tank which accumulates water discharged from the fuel cell, a heater which vaporizes water accumulated in the tank, a discharge valve which switches between accumulating and discharging of the water with respect to the tank, an external air temperature sensor which detects an external air temperature, a vehicle speed sensor which detects a vehicle speed, a selector with which the driver selects an operation of the discharge valve between accumulating and discharging of the water with respect to the tank, and an ECU which controls these components and includes a control section and a control data storage section.

An autonomous driving control system for a vehicle which is able to switch between manual driving and autonomous driving is provided with a driver condition sensor, acting part, and electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is provided with an autonomous driving control part, reliance calculating part for calculating an autonomous driving output reliance, vigilance calculating part for calculating a driver vigilance, and an action control part for controlling a strength of an action against a driver. In a region in which an operating point determined by the autonomous driving output reliance and driver vigilance can fall, a plurality of sub regions are defined by boundary lines extending so that the driver vigilance becomes higher as the autonomous driving output reliance becomes lower. The action control part controls the strength of the action against the driver to differ in accordance with the sub region in which the operating point falls.

A hands-free system, through which a driver communicates without using hands with an on-board mobile phone such as a cell phone, is mounted on an automotive vehicle. Plural speakers including a center speaker installed in an instrument panel and door speakers each installed in each door are mounted on the vehicle. Whenever the center speaker is mounted on the vehicle, the center speaker is selected as a speaker from which voices transmitted from the mobile phone are outputted. Only when the center speaker is not mounted, the door speakers are selected. When the center speaker is selected, the voices transmitted from the mobile phone can be heard from a direction to which a driver's eye line is directed. Accordingly, the driver is able to hear the speaker sounds from the natural direction for him/her.

The invention relates to a dynamic V2V link delay predicting method in VANETs to solve the problems that the link delay cannot accurately and practically predicted, the vehicle-mounted network environment and the application requirement cannot be met through the method based on the MANETs, it is very hard for a driver to find out the universal law of automobile node velocity change, and then great difficulty is brought to link delay prediction. The method comprises the steps that firstly, the relative velocity value delta v of two automobiles is calculated; secondly, the relative displacement value delta S of two automobile heads is calculated; thirdly, the average speed difference value u and the variance sigma 2 of the formula seen in the specification are worked out; fourthly, the relative distance L is calculated; fifthly, the mathematical expectation value ET of link delay is calculated. The method is applied to the field of dynamic V2V link delay prediction in VANETs.

The invention provides an automobile panoramic imaging device and method based on infrared calibration. The device comprises multiple camera shooting acquisition units arranged in different directions around an automobile, a video conversion unit, a video processing unit, a storage unit, a video coding and outputting unit, a display unit and infrared lasers respectively fixed on the multiple camera shooting acquisition units, wherein the camera shooting acquisition units shoot colorful image information in different directions around the automobile; the video conversion unit converts analog signal image information shot by each camera shooting acquisition unit into binary digital image information; the digital image information is stored in the storage unit; and the video processing unit analyzes and processes the information of multiple digital images in the storage unit by virtue of an infrared calibration line emitted from an infrared emitter. According to the automobile panoramic imaging device and method based on infrared calibration, the panoramic information of the automobile and the surrounding environment can be accurately provided for drivers in real time.

The invention provides a vehicle-mounted car-backing simulation system comprising a vehicle-mounted navigating instrument arranged in a car and a wide-angle camera arranged at the tail of the car and also comprising a speed sensor and an analog-to-digital conversion module which is connected between the wide-angle camera and the vehicle-mounted navigating instrument; the vehicle-mounted navigating instrument comprises an image processing module, an MCU (Microgrammed Control Unit) control module and a display; the MCU control module is used for calculating the position of the car after a set time according to information on the speed sensor and the angle of a steering wheel under a car-backing mode; and the image processing module is used for analyzing and processing environment image information captured by using the wide-angle camera and digitally processed by the analog-to-digital conversion module, overlying the environment image information with the position of the car after the set time, which is calculated by the MCU control module, and simulating the motion curve of the car within the set time on the display. The vehicle-mounted car-backing simulation system can be used for simulating the motion curve of the car within several seconds according to the surrounding environment of the car as well as the car-backing speed and direction and enabling a driver to more intuitively know the car-backing condition and plays auxiliary car-backing and stopping roles.

A multi-sensory parking guidance system using visual, auditory and tactile feel indicators to guide a driver into an optimal position to park a vehicle. The invention also indicates the appropriate stopping position within a parking space.

The invention discloses a temperature pre-regulation system and method of a power battery pack and a thermal management system control method, and relates to the technical field of power batteries. The temperature pre-regulation control system comprises a battery pack, a thermal management system, an automobile electricity utilization load and a control system, wherein the control system comprisesa controller, an acquisition module and an instruction module; the acquisition module acquires battery pack parameter information, compares the battery pack parameter information with a preset parameter value in the controller, and controls the automobile electricity utilization load and the thermal management system through the instruction module to realize battery pack temperature pre-regulation. According to the invention, the battery pack can work in a relatively large temperature range, responses can be made in time for various problems of the battery pack, and especially when the discharge current is relatively large and the temperature rise of the battery is delayed, the flow of the cooling liquid is pre-adjusted, so that the uncontrollable condition of the battery is avoided; andmeanwhile, the controller has the functions of continuously learning and optimizing control parameters, and can carry out continuous adjustment according to the driving habit of a driver and the gradual aging of the battery.

A luggage rack able to illuminate includes a body portion (101), fixed on a top of a vehicle. A plurality of illuminators (103) is further included and arranged with the illuminating luggage rack. By arranging the illuminators (103), surrounding vehicles and drivers may easily notice the vehicle having the illuminating luggage rack, ensuring driving safety.

The invention belongs to the field of automobile safety and discloses a car door anti-collision warning device. When the car is parked, use the continuous wave radar to detect the moving objects behind, filter out the stationary objects and the filtered signals far away from the stopped vehicles, process the echo signals close to the stopped vehicles, and calculate the relative distance between the moving objects and the stopped vehicles, Relative speed and relative acceleration, use the DSP microprocessor to compare the safe distance and safe time between the stopped vehicle and the suspicious dangerous object and judge its safety. When the safety is lower than a certain level, the alarm system will promptly remind the driver and passengers There may be dangers when opening the door, lock the door in an emergency. The invention solves the prior art problem that the vehicle easily collides with external moving vehicles and causes safety accidents due to personnel opening the vehicle door without warning after the vehicle is parked.

For a vehicle having a brake system, a driver assistance system includes a detection system having at least one sensor configured to output measurement signals, and a control unit configured to receive at least one measurement signal, determine whether the vehicle is in a critical state based on measurement signal(s), and output an external brake request signal to a brake control device of the brake system for priming or biasing the brake system when the vehicle is determined to be in the critical state. The external brake request signal comprises an acceleration setpoint value signal having a higher acceleration setpoint value than a current actual acceleration value of the vehicle.

The invention is applicable to the technical field of agricultural machinery, and provides a wetland travel operation device and a method for controlling the same. The wetland travel operation devicecomprises a body, driving wheels and driving wheel slip rate control devices. The driving wheels are connected to the body, the body is provided with paddy field mud water film depth monitoring devices for monitoring the depths of mud water films of paddy fields, the body or at least one of the driving wheels is provided with wheel speed sensors, the wheel speed sensors are used for monitoring thespeeds of the driving wheels, and the body is further provided with a speed adjusting device and an actual vehicle speed sensor for monitoring the travel speeds of the wetland travel operation device. The wetland travel operation device and the method in an embodiment of the invention have the advantages that the wetland travel operation device is high in intelligence degree, machinery and traction power can be adjusted without dependency on experience of drivers, slipping can be prevented or relieved, and excessive slipping of the driving wheels of the wetland travel operation device, overload of transmission systems and damage on the transmission systems and abrasion of tires due to excessive slipping of the driving wheels and overload of the transmission systems can be prevented; the wetland travel operation device is high in traction efficiency and favorable for protecting hard bottom layers of the paddy fields, energy can be saved, and environments can be protected.

A driver-state detection system and method with an accelerator pedal control function detects a driver's state and controlling an accelerator pedal to prevent an accident. The driver-state detection system with an accelerator pedal control function includes a driver-state detector detecting a driving state of a driver and determining whether the driver is carelessly driving a vehicle or not, a pedal controller receiving an operation signal from the driver-state detector, a vehicle state detector determining whether the vehicle is driven or stopped, based on ambient signals of the vehicle, an operation pedal installed to receive operation signals from the pedal controller and the vehicle state detector, and a vibration generator installed on the operation pedal and provided to generate or cancel a vibration of a motor.

A dialogue system for a vehicle may include: an input processor configured to receive a dialogue among occupants of the vehicle including a driver and at least one passenger, to detect vehicle operation information, to identify the at least one passenger based on the dialogue among the occupants or the vehicle operation information, to generate passenger number information which estimates a change in a number of passengers in the vehicle based on the dialogue among the occupants when the vehicle arrives at a stop-over point, and to acquire a pre-utterance message according to the passenger number information; and a result processor configured to output a pre-utterance according to the pre-utterance message.

The invention provides an intelligent vehicle assisted driving method based on driver visual information. The intelligent vehicle assisted driving method combines a plurality of different informationacquisition methods to obtain external visual information, and organically divides various types of information from the perspective of driver information load, so that the obtainable information hasbetter hierarchy and interpretability. The collected and classified information is used, through a machine learning method, feature vectors and optimal time windows are selected, a feature parameter library based on levels and a driver information load amount classifier are separately established, an effective supporting method for selecting the timing and method of an assisted driving strategy isprovided, and human-computer interaction in intelligent vehicle assisted driving is improved.

The invention relates to a position adjusting system for heliostat cleaning equipment. The position adjusting system comprises a multi-freedom-degree adjusted hydraulic lazy arm arranged on a cleaningvehicle chassis, an adjusting device arranged on a first framework, a distance detection device arranged on the side, close to the heliostat face, of a cleaning vehicle, and a parallelism degree detecting device arranged on the first framework. The first framework is connected with a framework installing position of the hydraulic lazy arm through a connecting base at the middle portion of the upper side of the first framework. The first framework is provided with an installing plate. The adjusting device is used for adjusting the position of a brush arranged on the installing plate relative to the heliostat face. The hydraulic lazy arm and the adjusting device adjust the positions of the first framework and the brush according to signals fed back by the parallelism degree detecting device, and a driver adjusts the running direction of the cleaning vehicle according to the signals fed back by the distance detection device. The cleaning angle is automatically adjusted, convenience and flexibility are achieved, cleaning is clean, thorough and free of dead angles, the cleaning efficiency is high, and the service life is long.

A tire angle change motor steers a host vehicle according to a tire angle corresponding to the rotation angle of a steering wheel detected by a steering wheel angle sensor. A gear ratio calculating unit of a tire angle control unit changes the amount of steering corresponding to the rotation angle of the steering wheel required for the tire angle change motor to steer the host vehicle, depending on the amount of pushing of the steering wheel detected by the pushing amount sensor. Therefore, it is possible to improve the convenience of a driving operation for steering. A pushing direction reaction force motor changes a reaction force generated against the amount of pushing of the steering wheel by the driver, depending on the speed of the host vehicle detected by a vehicle speed sensor. Therefore, the reaction force makes it possible to prevent the host vehicle from being steered by an unintended operation of the driver in various traveling states of the vehicle.

A steering system with magnetic torque overlay of a vehicle is provided. The system comprises a hydraulic valve and differential-pressure transducer that monitors pressure created by the valve due to torque exerted by a driver of the vehicle in various directions on a steering wheel thereof. The transducer is fastened to a recirculating ball steering gear. A magnetic actuator generates an output of torque required from the steering gear for a maneuver of the steering wheel and applies the torque to the valve independently of input by the driver. A permanent magnet is located proximate the actuator. A control module calculates an appropriate amount of electric current and sends it to the actuator to generate the output torque. The torque is added to or subtracted from the system in any of the directions independently of the driver input by the pressure-monitoring and inputs from the vehicle into the control module.

A method for automatic direction indication for a vehicle includes the following steps:

• • detecting a driver activity and/or a vehicle position by a Lane Keeping System and/or a Lane Departure Warning System; and
  • automatically activating or deactivating a direction indicator of the vehicle dependent on the detected driver activity or vehicle position.

The invention discloses a system and method for adjusting an outside rear-view mirror of an automobile through surface recognition. According to the method, facial feature information input and identity registration of a driver are realized through a facial recognition system and an automobile-mounted human-computer interaction system, after the driver adjusts the position of the outside rear-viewmirror according to personal preference, an outside rear-view mirror control system records the position information, binds the position information with the registered identity information in the surface recognition system and stores the position information, when the user uses the automobile again, the automobile recognizes facial features of the driver through the facial recognition system, and the corresponding identity information is activated, after the outside rear-view mirror system calls the outside rear-view mirror position information stored under the identity information, the outside rear-view mirror is adjusted to a proper position, self-adaptive adjustment with the user is achieved, and convenient and rapid control experience is brought to the user.

The invention discloses a manufacturing method of a luminous road. When road surface layer asphalt or concrete is poured, before the asphalt or the concrete is initially solidified, luminous sand is laid on the surface layer of the road, the coverage rate of the luminous sand on the surface layer of the road reaches 40-60% or above, then rolling is conducted through a rolling machine, and the luminous sand is composed of glass sand, luminescent coating and reflective coating, wherein the surface of the glass sand is coated with the luminescent coating and the reflective coating. The glass sandwith the luminescent coating and the reflective coating is laid on the surface layer of the road, thus the road has the luminescent effect and the reflective effect, meanwhile, through the diffuse reflection effect of the glass sand, a driver travelling on the road can clearly see the road, and thus the driving safety is improved; and meanwhile, the luminescent coating on the glass sand can absorb lamp light of passing vehicles, so that the road keeps the luminous state at night, the driver conveniently sees the road condition, road lamps do not need to be mounted, the construction cost is saved, and power sources are saved.