C.r.f. Societa Consortile Per Azioni

Luca Liotti

Piermario Repetto

Cosimo Carvignese

Roberto Finizio

Nereo Pallaro

Stefano Bernard

Daniele Pullini

Marco Biasiotto

Davide Capello

Denis Bollea

Gianfranco Innocenti

Marco Pizzi

Pietro Perlo

Andrea Perosino

Filippo Visintainer

Marco Darin

Marco Ottella

Antonella Toffetti

Emilio Mosca

Fabrizio Picariello

Luca Guglielmetto

Andrea Pipino

System to cause a motor vehicle equipped with an automotive automated driving system to perform a Follow-Me low-speed manoeuvre under the control of a user terminal from the outside of the motor vehicle. The motor vehicle comprises automotive on-vehicle systems comprising a propulsion system, a braking system, a steering system, a sensory system; an automotive communications system to communicate with communications systems of user terminals; and an automotive electronic control unit configured to be connectable to the automotive on-vehicle systems and to the communications system, and to cooperate with the automotive on-vehicle systems to implement said automotive automated driving system. The user terminal comprises a digital image capture device and a communications system to communicate with automotive communications systems. The user terminal is programmed to communicate and cooperate with the electronic control unit of the motor vehicle to implement a Follow-Me functionality that allows a user from the outside of the motor vehicle and in possession of the user terminal to cause the motor vehicle to perform a Follow-Me low-speed manoeuvre under the control of the user terminal. The user terminal is further programmed to: The electronic control unit is programmed to:

Exploitation of automotive automated driving systems to cause motor vehicles to perform follow-me low-speed manoeuvres controllable from the outside of the motor vehicles by user terminals

An automotive electronic control unit () configured to control operation of automotive direction indicators () based on motor vehicle-related data and by receiving current steering wheel angle (&#x3b1;) and motor vehicle speed (v), determining an initial steering wheel angle (&#x3b1;) when a direction indicator () is activated, determining minimum and maximum steering wheel angles (&#x3b1;, &#x3b1;) reached during the period that the direction indicator is active, computing a steering wheel release angle (&#x3b1;) based on the current motor vehicle speed (v), the steering wheel release angle (&#x3b1;) representing the steering wheel angle (&#x3b1;) beyond which the motor vehicle's steering wheel is to be turned in the direction indicated by the active direction indicator to cause, when the steering wheel is turned in the opposite direction at the end of steering manoeuvre, the automatic deactivation of the active direction indicator (), and determining if and when to deactivate the active direction indicator () based on the current steering wheel angle (&#x3b1;), the initial steering wheel angle (&#x3b1;), the minimum and maximum steering wheel angles (&#x3b1;, &#x3b1;) and the steering wheel release angle (&#x3b1;).

Control of operation of automotive direction indicators

An optical detection system per motor-vehicles, suitable to detect the condition of the road surface on which the vehicle is travelling, comprising a photodetector unit composed of a camera having a matrix of pixels composed of photodetectors based on a photosensitive material suitable to detect both radiations in the visible and near infrared, i.e. having a wavelength comprised between 380 and 900 nanometres, and radiations in the short wavelength infrared, i.e. having a wavelength comprised between 900 and 1700 nanometres.

Optical detection system for motor-vehicles having multiple functions, including detection of the condition of the road surface

An optical device for motor vehicles, designed to detect the condition of the road surface, comprises a unit for the emission of electromagnetic radiation in the direction of the road surface to be detected, a receiving unit coupled to an optical element for focusing the radiation back-diffused by the road surface and an electronic control and processing unit for receiving signals at output from said receiving unit and for processing them in order to determine the condition of the road surface, on the basis of a reference map. Appearing in said map are the values of the intensity of radiation Iback-reflected at a reference wavelength and at least one second wavelength. The map is divided into subareas identified beforehand as corresponding to the different conditions of the road surface.

Optical device for motor vehicles, for detecting the condition of the road surface

The system allows the generation and distribution of energy on board a motor vehicle provided with a propulsion unit, a tank for fuel at least one distribution network or line for electric energy, electrical energy generation devices connected to the at least one distribution network or line, and a plurality of selectively activatable electrical utilizer devices or apparatus connected or connectable to the at least one distribution network or line. The electrical energy generator devices includes (at least) a microcombustor electricity generator matrix or battery connected to the fuel tank, and a supervision and control unit associated with this generator matrix or battery and coupled to the distribution network or line and arranged to control the operation of the generator matrix or battery in a predetermined manner as a function of the electrical power required or consumed by the network or line.

Innovative architectures for systems for generation and distribution of energy on board motor vehicles

A system with a multifunctional integrated visual sensor using a CMOS or CCD technology matrix having a sensitive area divided into Sub-areas dedicated to a series of specific functions.

Detection device to be installed on a road for detecting environmental conditions and monitoring and controlling traffic

A luminous display for automotive satellite navigation systems includes a panel equipped with light sources, for example made up of LEDs, arranged in a pre-ordered configuration of discrete segments, which can be combined with one another according to paths corresponding to the representation of a plurality of encoded generally arrow-shaped pictograms, each of which indicates a respective direction to follow indicated by the navigation system. The path to follow is highlighted with respect to possible alternative paths represented by the pictograms.

Luminous display for automotive satellite navigation systems

Multifunctional optical sensor, comprising a matrix of photodetectors of the CCD or CMOS type, having a sensitive area divided into sub-areas, each of which, individually or combined with others, is dedicated to a specific function of monitoring the scene or measuring environmental parameters. The optical sensor comprises a matrix of microlenses, each of which is set to focus the radiation coming from a portion of solid angle on the associated photodetector or cluster of mutually contiguous photodetectors. Each function is associated to a single microlens or to a single subgroup of mutually contiguous microlenses or to multiple, not mutually contiguous microlenses or to multiple, not mutually contiguous subgroups of microlenses. The angular separation between the central directions of the portions of solid angle subtended by adjacent photodetectors or adjacent clusters of photodetectors is not constant within the matrix.

Multifunctional optical sensor comprising a photodetectors matrix coupled to a microlenses matrix

An optical system for image projection, particularly for projection devices of the 'head-mounted'type, includes a display, an optical system for focusing an image formed by the display, and a light guide having an extended body, with two opposite, longitudinal, plane and parallel faces, and opposite ends which define first reflecting surface for coupling into the light guide and second reflecting surface for extracting the image from the light guide. Each light ray which propagates through the light guide undergoes at least three internal total reflections on the parallel plane faces of the light guide. At least a surface of the focusing optical system is a portion of a surface free of rotational symmetry axes. Moreover, the two reflecting surfaces of the light guide are portions of surfaces free of rotational symmetry axes. Finally, the inlet pupil of the light guide coincides with the outlet pupil of the focusing system.

Optical system for image transmission, particularly for projection devices of the head-mounted type

The system allows the generation and distribution of energy on board a motor vehicle provided with a propulsion unit, a tank for fuel at least one distribution network or line for electric energy, electrical energy generation devices connected to the at least one distribution network or line, and a plurality of selectively activatable electrical utiliser devices or apparatus connected or connectable to the at least one distribution network or line. The electrical energy generator devices includes (at least) a microcombustor electricity generator matrix or battery connected to the fuel tank, and a supervision and control unit associated with this generator matrix or battery and coupled to the distribution network or line and arranged to control the operation of the said generator matrix or battery in a predetermined manner as a function of the electrical power required or consumed by the said network or line.

Interface system for assisting an operator during a work stage comprising a support structure wearable by the operator, with a transparent screen placed in front of the operator's eyes to permit him to see a portion of a background; a virtual image generator for producing an optical signal directed towards the operator's retina so as to form a virtual image at a predetermined distance from the operator's eyes and superimposed on the background; a recording device integral with the operator's head, to record part of the operator's visual field and make available a signal representative of the visual field; a processing device for processing the signal from the recording device and generating a visual information signal of use to the operator for carrying out the work stage; and a device of reception/transmission for sending the signal from the recording device to the processing device, and rendering the information signal to the virtual image generator.

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Orbassano, Italy

Luca Liotti