Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Benjamin Carl Mukkala, Ii

Brian Michael O'Neil

Jason Eugene Devries

Andreas Ediger

Nathanael David Shaw

Benjamin Baecker

Aaron Lewis Mills

Michael Joseph Giunta

Stephanie Rosenberg

Roy S Schafer

Michael Joseph Guinta

Manuel Strauch

Stephen Cole

Benjamin Bäcker

A method for controlling a vehicle includes automatically adapting vehicle acceleration responsive to a cruise control setpoint acceleration associated with a detected speed limit, and a drive setpoint acceleration based on the cruise control setpoint acceleration, wherein a cruise controller determines a distance control setpoint acceleration based on a detected vehicle distance from a vehicle traveling ahead, and wherein the drive setpoint acceleration is limited by the distance control setpoint acceleration.

Method for automatically adapting acceleration in a motor vehicle

A system for overriding a vehicle speed limit setting via accelerator pedal override is disclosed, comprising a vehicle including steering, an accelerator pedal, brakes, a processor, and memory, and a vehicle speed limit override module coupled to the processor and configured to override the speed limit setting by calculating an override threshold based on the set speed limit and accounting for variable vehicle weight, road grade or other unknown loads.

Analytic design of pedal override for adjustable speed limiting

A method for controlling engine temperature of an engine with a wide dynamic range is disclosed. In one example, the derivative of an engine temperature is assessed by a controller. The controller may adjust engine actuators to limit engine temperature in response to the derivative.

Method for controlling engine temperature of an engine

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Benjamin Carl Mukkala, Ii