Volvo Car Corporation

Volvo Technology Corporation

Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Daniel Levin

Trent Victor

Johan Hultén

Andreas Eidehall

Peter Tobias Kronberg

Magnus Brandin

Gustav Markkula

Christian Grante

Lena Westervall

Wolfgang Birk

Mattias Erik Brannstrom

Susanna Leandersson

Jonas Jansson

Johan Roennberg

Mattias BRÄNNSTRÖM

Johan Rönnberg

A method for operating an electric vehicle. The method includes receiving an information about an upcoming speed reduction (S) and determining a release position or a release time at which a drive pedal of the electric vehicle is to be released, such that at a position corresponding to the speed reduction the electric vehicle travels at a speed corresponding to the speed reduction (S). Moreover, a first notification position is determined for providing a first notification signal concerning the release of the drive pedal (S). Alternatively or additionally a first notification time is determined for providing a first notification signal concerning the release of the drive pedal (S). Furthermore, a data processing system is presented. including data processing means for carrying out the above method. Additionally, an electric vehicle including such a data processing system is explained. Also, a corresponding computer program product and a corresponding computer-readable medium are shown.

Method for operating an electric vehicle, data processing system, electric vehicle, computer program product and computer-readable medium

A system and method for determining a speed profile for a vehicle travelling along a road in which a curve speed estimation unit receives inputs indicating a position of the vehicle relative to a curve ahead of the vehicle, and inputs related to vehicle velocity, curve geometry, road surface conditions, vehicle-specific data; and driver preferences. The curve sped estimation unit use at least some of the above-listed inputs to determine a speed profile for the curve by generating an acceleration limit map which depends on a relationship between a maximum possible longitudinal acceleration and a maximum possible lateral acceleration.

Method and apparatus for speed estimation and control

An arrangement, a vehicle and a method for providing vehicle driver support during manual or semi-autonomous driving in a potential overtake scenario are provided. The arrangement includes a detector, a communication unit arranged to receive from a preceding vehicle information of a probable route of the preceding vehicle based on at least one of preceding vehicle historical route information and preceding vehicle navigation system information, a processing unit arranged to determine, for one or more routes ahead of the host vehicle, the probability that the preceding vehicle will drive along the one or more route, to process the received information into a format suitable for display, and to display the processed information, thereby providing support to the vehicle driver.

Arrangement in a vehicle for providing vehicle driver support, a vehicle, and a method for providing vehicle driver support

The present invention generally relates to a method, a system and/or a computer readable program. An embodiment of the method includes acquiring an input signal indicative of the operator's expectation of the state of the object at a first point in time; determining a state of the object at a second later point in time based on the input signal; acquiring an input signal indicative of an estimated visual input of the operator at the second point in time; determining the operator's expectation of the state at the second point in time, based on the operator's expectation of the state of the object at the first point in time, and the estimated visual input and the state of the object at the second point in time; and providing an output signal indicative of the operator's expectation of the state at the second point in time.

Method, system and computer readable medium embodying a computer program product for determining a vehicle operator's expectation of a state of an object

The present invention generally relates to a method for improving the reliability of a portion of physiological data from an image sensor monitoring an operator positioned in an operator compartment of a vehicle. An embodiment of the method includes receiving, from the image sensor, physiological data including information relating to at least one of eye, face, head, arms and body motion of the operator, identifying an indication of at least an eyelid closure, eye movement or head movement of the operator based on the physiological data; comparing at least one of the physiological data and a lighting condition within the operator compartment with a set of rules for a current operator status; and classifying the type of eyelid closure, eye movement and/or head movement by correlating the identified eyelid closure, eye movement and/or head movement and a result of the comparison.

Method for classification of eye closures

System for improving a performance estimation of an operator of a vehicle, comprising a first module implementing a first method for estimating a performance state of vehicle operation, a second module implementing a second method for estimating at least one of a physiological and behavioral state of the operator, a device for sharing an estimated state between one of the first and the second module and the other one of the first and the second module, wherein the implemented estimation method of one of the first and the second module is adjusted based on the state of the other one of the first and the second module, thereby improving the estimation of at least one of the performance state of vehicle operation and the physiological and/or behavioral state of the operator.

System and method for improving a performance estimation of an operator of a vehicle

The present invention relates to a method for determining a vehicle operator's visual input of an object in the operator's surroundings, which method comprises receiving an object position signal indicative of the position of at least one object, receiving an operator motion input signal indicative of operator physiological data comprising information relating to body motion of the operator, estimating an operator eye-gaze direction, and determining a visual input quality value representative of level of visual input of the at least one object received by the operator, based on the object position signal and the estimated operator eye-gaze direction.

Visual input of vehicle operator

An object awareness determination system includes an external object sensor system to sense objects and generate input data relating to the objects external to a host vehicle, wherein the input data includes an object position (x, y), an object velocity |({dot over (x)}, {dot over (y)})| and an object direction of movement (({dot over (x)}, {dot over (y)})/|({dot over (x)}, {dot over (y)})|) associated with each object in said detecting range. Additionally, the system includes a controller for determining awareness of the user to an object that recently entered the detecting range of the external object sensor system, and a method for determining awareness of the object.

Object awareness determination system and a method for determining awareness of an object

An active safety system for a vehicle includes an external object sensor system arranged on a host vehicle. The sensor system designed to sense objects external to the host vehicle and generate input data relating to the objects, wherein the input data includes an object position ((R, &#x3c8;)(t)). Additionally, a threat indicator is included to assign a threat level (T(t)) to each external object (k) detected by the sensor system.

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Daniel Levin