Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Alain Chevalier

Frederic Stefan

Daniel Roettger

Urs Christen

Turgay Isik Aslandere

Simon Petrovic

Michael Marbaix

Paul Eduard Moraal

Evangelos Bitsanis

Leonhard Bartsch

Katie Vantine

Arno Bartsch

Yasser Mohammed Sayed Yacoub

Warren Bayliss

Stephane Sadai

A method for performing automatic valet parking, which includes selecting a road scenario applicable to a roadway; notifying a driver to release manual control elements of a motor vehicle and to leave the motor vehicle; checking whether the control elements have been released and the driver has left the motor vehicle and, in this case, entering an EXPLORE mode in which the motor vehicle is slowly driven autonomously and searches for a free car space or a parking space using the vehicle's own environmental sensors, before the motor vehicle is placed in a parking position; and then to change from the EXPLORE mode to a PARKING mode in which the motor vehicle is parked in the car space or in the parking space from the parking position by means of the longitudinal and lateral controllers and using the environmental data previously obtained from the environmental sensors in the EXPLORE mode.

Method for performing automatic valet parking

The present invention relates to a method for monitoring combustion stability of an HCCI internal combustion engine equipped with a crankshaft, an intake manifold and at least one cylinder, wherein stability is determined based on a deviation of an engine operating parameter such as, for example engine load or engine speed, from a predetermined threshold.

Method for monitoring combustion stability of an internal combustion engine

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Alain Chevalier