Ferrari S.p.a.

Andrea Secondi

Giovanni Russo

Stefano Varisco

Mihaela Neagu Chivu

Gianmarco Limonta

A method to calculate a driving route includes the steps of acquiring information corresponding to a departure place of the motor vehicle and to a target destination, determining a road map comprising a departure point and an arrival point of the driving route associated with the departure place and with the destination, respectively, calculating the driving route on the road map from the departure point to the arrival point by solving a path planning problem comprising an optimization of a target function depending on at least one first scalar parameter defined by a fun index, wherein the fun index is indicative of a level of fun of the driving route and wherein the target function strays away from an optimum value thereof when the fun index indicates a deviation of the level of fun from a target level or a decrease in the level of fun, the optimum value of the target function corresponding to the solution of the path planning problem.

Device for calculating driving routes for use in a motor vehicle and method for calculating driving routes

A driver assistance method for driving a road vehicle and including the steps of: determining whether the road vehicle, while driving along a bend, is oversteering or understeering or is about to oversteer or understeer; and generating a tactile feedback, which can be perceived by a driver, if the road vehicle, while driving along the bend, is oversteering or understeering or is about to oversteer or understeer.

Method for the driver assistance of a road vehicle

A control method to control a vehicle driving along a main road having a plurality of detours only arranged on one side of the main road. The control method exhibits the steps of: recognising a road surface marking present on a surface of the main road; recognising a road sign present beside the main road in order to determine possible speed limits set by the road sign; and establishing whether a speed limit set by a road sign refers to a detour or to the main road.

Vehicle control method with road sign recognition

A control method to control a vehicle driving along a main road having a plurality of detours. The control method exhibits the steps of: recognising a road surface marking present on a surface of the main road; recognising a road sign present beside the main road in order to determine possible speed limits set by the road sign; establishing whether a speed limit set by a road sign refers to the main road or to a detour which is located ahead of the vehicle and has been signalled by a satellite positioning system equipped with georeferenced mapping; establishing whether the driver is going to take the detour; warning the driver of the speed limit set by the road sign and related to the main road for as long as the driver does not intend to take the detour; and warning the driver of the speed limit set by the road sign and related to the detour only when the driver is going to take the detour.

Vehicle control method with exit intention recognition

A method for the performance-enhancing driver assistance of a road vehicle driven by a driver. The method comprises the steps of detecting a plurality of dynamic data (DD) of the vehicle by means of a control system, suggesting to the driver, by means of an interface device and depending on the plurality of dynamic data, one or more corrective actions to be carried out in order to accomplish a mission optimizing a cost function, and estimating the driving ability of the driver in order to obtain a driver rating value, based on which the corrective actions to be suggested are to be changed.

Assistance method to improve the performance of a driver by evaluating his skills and filtering the information to be provided on the basis of the value obtained

A method for the performance-enhancing driver assistance of a road vehicle. The method comprises the steps of defining a dynamic model of the road vehicle, determining the actual position and orientation of the road vehicle, detecting a plurality of environmental data, detecting a plurality of dynamic data, determining a passing through point of the road vehicle arranged in front of the road vehicle, solving an optimum control problem aimed at optimizing a cost function), taking into account, as boundary conditions, the plurality of environmental data, the actual position and the passing through point, so as to compute a mission optimizing the cost function from the actual position of the vehicle to the passing through point of the vehicle.

Assistance method to improve the performance of a driver by means of corrective actions hints

A method of processing the psychophysical state of a driver to improve the driving experience of road vehicle driven by a driver and comprising the steps of: cyclically detecting one or more objective vital parameters of the driver by means of one or more first sensors installed within a vehicular system; processing the value of a vital state index according to said one or more objective vital parameters detected; cyclically detecting one or more subjective parameters of the driver by means of one or more second sensors installed within the vehicular system; processing, starting from the objective vital parameters and according to the subjective parameters, the psychophysical state of the driver.

Method of processing the psychophysical state of a driver to improve the driving experience of a road vehicle and related vehicular system

A method for the performance-enhancing driver assistance of a road vehicle driven on a track. The method comprises the steps of defining a dynamic model of the road vehicle, determining the actual position and orientation of the road vehicle, detecting a plurality of space data concerning the structure of the track, detecting a plurality of dynamic data of the vehicle, determining a passing through point of the road vehicle arranged in front of the road vehicle, solving an optimum control problem aimed at optimizing a cost function, taking into account, as boundary conditions, the plurality of environmental data, the actual position and the passing through point, so as to compute a mission optimizing the cost function, and driving the vehicle in an autonomous manner so as to show to the driver the mission optimizing the cost function.

Assistance method to improve performance in driving a car demonstrating difficult performance through an autonomous driving system triggered by the driver

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Andrea Secondi