Jaguar Land Rover Limited

Jonathan Randall

Thomas Popham

Krzysztof Kobylinski

Zhou Xu

Francis McCullough

Peter Thomas

Fiona Powell

Linh Nguyen

David Oxtoby

There is provided a control system for controlling a system, the control system comprising one or more controllers, configured to: receive a rule configuration signal, the rule configuration signal specifying properties of a rule, the properties comprising an indicator of an action to be carried out and at least one associated trigger condition; store the indicator of the action and the at least one associated trigger condition at a storage location; determine whether the rule is to be evaluated by the control system; and if the determination indicates that the rule is to be evaluated by the control system, and upon the at least one associated trigger condition being met: generate at least one control signal in accordance with the indicated action; and output the at least one control signal to at least one vehicle system to be controlled.

System controllers

A shortcut system () for controlling at least one vehicle system (), the shortcut system comprising: an input arranged to receive configuration signals () generated in response to a user operating a configuration device () independent of the vehicle (), the configuration signals specifying an action to be carried out by a vehicle system; a memory module () arranged to store the action specified in a received configuration signal; a processor () arranged, upon a user-selected trigger condition being met, to generate a control signal () for controlling the vehicle system in accordance with the stored specified action; and an output arranged to output the control signal. Also a configuration device () independent of a vehicle () that is arranged to configure a shortcut system () for controlling at least one vehicle system () of the vehicle, and a method of controlling at least one vehicle system () of a vehicle ().

Control of vehicle systems

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