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Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

Andreas Ortseifen

Udo Sieber

Dieter Schwarzmann

Urs Christen

Rainer Busch

Tobias Mauk

Nicholas Dashwood Crisp

Reiner Schweinfurth

Mohamad Iyad Al Dibs

Florian Malchow

Stephan Strahl

Yuliya Aksyutina

Simon Dierolf

Julian David Pott

Meghashree Kowshika Ramachandra

Nick Crisp

Nick Dashwood Crisp

The method for detecting a position error of an electronically commutated actuator drive between an assumed position and an actual position of the actuator drive includes performing a position control procedure for the position of the actuator drive. The method further includes providing data with regard to the assumed position of the actuator drive. The method further includes forming an electric space vector value to generate a component of a stator magnetic field that extends parallel with a direction of an exciter magnetic field that prevails in the case of the assumed position of the actuator drive. The method further includes detecting whether a movement of the actuator drive has occurred as a result of generating the component of the exciter magnetic field.

Method and device for detecting position errors of a rotor of an electronically commutated actuator drive

A method and apparatus for teaching and/or evaluating driving behavior of a driver of an autonomous-capable vehicle. The vehicle is operated in a manual-control mode wherein a driver has manual control, and a communication device (audio speaker, visual display, etc.) issues an instruction to the driver to perform a task. As the driver is attempting to perform the task, a sensor monitors the driver's behavior. A driver instruction module (that interfaces with the vehicle's autonomous driving module) determines a deviation between the driver's behavior and a desired behavior to perform the task. If the deviation exceeds a permissible amount, the vehicle is placed under autonomous control (control is taken away from the driver) and the task is completed in a manner that is in accordance with the desired behavior.

Method and device for evaluating driving behavior

A method of controlling the operating mode of a motor vehicle includes transitioning between driving and coasting modes and vice-versa automatically in response to a driver trigger. The method controls an engine of the motor vehicle to bring a driveline driven by the engine via an electronically controlled clutch into a lash state before engaging or disengaging the electronically controlled clutch thereby preventing driveline disturbances from being produced by the transition.

Method of controlling a motor vehicle

A controller for controlling a micromechanical actuator having a setpoint input for receiving a setpoint signal, an actual-value input for receiving an actual-value signal, a setpoint filter to attenuate a first predefined frequency or a first predefined frequency band in the received setpoint signal to generate a filtered setpoint signal, a differentiator to generate a time derivative of the received actual-value signal; a controller core to generate a manipulated variable signal based on a system deviation between the filtered setpoint signal and the actual-value signal; a phase rotation element to modify the phase of the difference between the manipulated variable signal and the derivative of the actual-value signal for a second frequency or in a predefined second frequency band to generate a modified manipulated variable signal; and a first manipulated variable filter to suppress a predefined third frequency in the modified manipulated variable signal.

Controller for controlling a micromechanical actuator, in particular a micromirror, control system, micromirror system, and method for controlling a micromechanical actuator

A method for calibrating a drive of a throttle valve of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes detecting whether the internal combustion engine is currently running or is not running. The method further includes activating the drive to displace the throttle valve into a target position if it is detected that the internal combustion engine is currently not running. The method further includes calibrating a characteristic at the target position. A correlation between a rotor position of the drive and an output voltage of a throttle valve angle transducer follows a characteristic.

Method and control unit for calibrating a drive of a throttle valve of an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle

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