B60K2031/0091

CRUISE CONTROL INTERLOCK SYSTEM
20200001869 · 2020-01-02 · ·

A cruise control interlock system detects a current set of conditions for a vehicle, compares the current conditions with cruise control interlock conditions (e.g., an adjustable threshold state of a windshield wiper system), and executes a process to deactivate the cruise control system. The process to deactivate functionality of the cruise control system may include presenting a notification to the operator to alert the operator to an upcoming automatic deactivation or to encourage the operator to deactivate cruise control. The process also may include a vehicle de-rate process (e.g., reducing vehicle speed) to induce the operator to deactivate cruise control. Deactivation of cruise control may be postponed in some situations, such as when the vehicle is ascending an uphill grade or where doing so may deactivate an active downhill speed control function.

Vehicle control system with track temperature sensing

A work vehicle may include an engine, a drive train driven by the engine, and a track system including at least one track. The track system is connected to the drive train. The work vehicle may further include a temperature sensor configured to sense a track temperature of the at least one track and a vehicle control system configured to receive the track temperature and to determine misalignment of the at least one track based at least in part upon the sensed track temperature.

Stand-up vehicle having safety posture determination process and upper limit speed management process

In a stand-up vehicle having a vehicle upper part having a riding surface configured for a user to stand on, one or more electronic control units execute emergency situation detection processing for detecting an emergency of the user when receiving notification from the user or based on information from one or more sensors, safety posture determination processing for determining whether or not the user takes a safety posture based on information from one or more sensors after detecting the emergency, and upper limit speed management processing executed when detecting the emergency and determining that the user takes the safety posture. The upper limit speed management process increases the upper limit speed to be higher than the basic upper limit speed selected when the safety posture determination process determines that the user is not in the safety posture, or cancels the upper limit speed.

Vehicle and method of controlling vehicle speed at a road branching point

A vehicle includes a navigation device, and a controller electrically connected to the navigation device, wherein the controller is configured to determine a first speed of the vehicle based on a main line speed limit of a road on which the vehicle is traveling, wherein the main line speed limit is included in navigation information output by the navigation device, determine a second speed for decelerating the vehicle to a predetermined speed when the vehicle is positioned at a target point of a curved lane based on an arc length from a branching point of the road to the curved lane, which is determined based on the predetermined speed and a predetermined allowable maximum deceleration amount in the curved lane in route information included in the navigation information and the navigation information, and determine the first speed or the second speed as a control target speed of the vehicle at the branching point.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WAREHOUSE ENVIRONMENT SPEED ZONE MANAGEMENT
20240059145 · 2024-02-22 · ·

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 by applying a maximum vehicle operational limit of the materials handling vehicle to a magnitude that is at or below an operational limit of the restricted operational zone. Further, the processor overrides the maximum vehicle operational limit based on application of a throttle neutral action.

TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE

A travel control device for controlling traveling of a straddle-type vehicle includes a control device, a vehicle speed detector configured to detect a traveling speed of the vehicle, and a vibration detector configured to detect a detection target vibration which is a vibration in a yaw direction or roll direction of the vehicle and has a frequency within a reference frequency range. The control device includes a deceleration device configured to perform a deceleration control to decelerate the traveling speed if the traveling speed exceeds a control start reference speed and an amplitude of the detection target vibration exceeds a control start reference amplitude and a deceleration stop device configured to stop the deceleration control if the traveling speed becomes equal to or less than a target limited speed after the deceleration control is started by the deceleration device.

Vehicle control apparatus
11904687 · 2024-02-20 · ·

A vehicle control apparatus configured to control a driving motor coupled to at least one wheel includes a motor controller, a vehicle speed calculator, and a vehicle speed setter. The motor controller controls the driving motor in a constant speed driving mode. The vehicle speed calculator calculates a first vehicle speed based on a rotation angle of the driving motor. The vehicle speed setter sets, as a driving speed in the constant speed driving mode, a second vehicle speed based on the first vehicle speed and a brake operation amount. The vehicle speed setter sets zero as the second vehicle speed when the brake operation amount exceeds its threshold and the first vehicle speed falls below its threshold, and sets the first vehicle speed as the second vehicle speed when the brake operation amount does not exceed its threshold r the first vehicle speed does not fall below its.

VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM

In the vehicle control system, a driving control part includes a relative speed calculating part which detects an advancing direction of an object approaching the vehicle and calculates a relative speed between the vehicle and the object approaching the vehicle, a moving direction predicting part which, in a case where it is determined that the object is going to collide with the vehicle, predicts a movement of the vehicle after a collision, and a collision reducing vehicle turning control part which, in a case where it is determined that the vehicle is going to collide with the object around the vehicle, exerts driving control which changes the orientation of the vehicle to a direction in which the vehicle does not collide with the object around the vehicle or to a direction in which the collision to the object around the vehicle by the vehicle is alleviated.

GPS-BASED VEHICULAR SPEED LIMITING SYSTEM
20190371169 · 2019-12-05 ·

The GPS-based vehicular speed limiting system comprises an on board diagnostic (OBD) interface unit and a GPS unit. The OBD interface unit plugs into the OBD-2 (or equivalent) connector inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle and communicates with one or more vehicle computers. The GPS unit receives signals from GPS satellites to determine the current vehicle location, which it may then display in map form utilizing map data stored in memory within the GPS. If the OBD interface unit determines that the vehicle is traveling faster than the posted speed limit, as determined by information stored in the map data and communicated to the OBD interface unit over the wireless link, the OBD interface unit may command the vehicle computers to limit the speed of the vehicle. Unplugging the OBD interface unit may result in a notification being sent to a smartphone

System and method for automatically controlling vehicle speed based on track-related temperatures of a work vehicle

A method for automatically controlling vehicle speeds of a track-based work vehicle may generally include receiving, with a computing device, one or more signals associated with an operating temperature for a track component of a track assembly of the track-based work vehicle, comparing, with the computing device, the operating temperature for the track component to a predetermined temperature threshold defined for the track component and automatically limiting, with the computing device, a vehicle speed of the track-based work vehicle when the operating temperature for the track component exceeds the predetermined temperature threshold.