Mando Corporation

Man Bok Park

Sang Hyun Lee

Hyoung Jin Kang

Seung Wook Park

Disclosed herein are an impact-absorbing apparatus and method for a vehicle, which are applied to an automatic emergency brake (AEB) system of a vehicle. The impact-absorbing apparatus includes a path generation unit configured to generate an own vehicle travel path of an own vehicle, based on a speed and travel direction of the own vehicle, and a preceding vehicle travel path of a preceding vehicle, based on a speed and travel direction of the preceding vehicle, and a collision determination unit configured to determine whether or not the own vehicle collides with the preceding vehicle, based on the own vehicle travel path and the preceding vehicle travel path, wherein when it is impossible to avoid the collision between the own vehicle and the preceding vehicle, the path generation unit generates a new travel path by comparing the own vehicle travel path with the preceding vehicle travel path.

Impact-absorbing apparatus and method for vehicle

The present disclosure relates to a cooperative driving control technology, by which the set speed of an automatic cruise system of follower vehicles, other than a foremost vehicle, among cooperative driving vehicles is set to be higher by a certain value than the driving speed of the leader vehicle, and the headway time of a vehicle immediately after a departing vehicle is increased during a departure period of the follower vehicle, thereby enabling the departing vehicle to quickly and completely depart and preventing a collision between vehicles during the period.

Cooperative driving control device and method therefor

Disclosed is a cooperative driving method including transmitting information on a merging request to a lead vehicle which is singly driving or cooperatively driving, receiving information indicating whether merging is possible from the lead vehicle which has determined whether the merging is possible, a merging step in which, when information indicating that the merging is possible is received, the follow vehicle merges, transmitting information indicating that the merging is being performed to the lead vehicle, determining whether the merging of the follow vehicle has been completed based on a longitudinal distance from a first preceding vehicle or a transverse distance from a lane line, and a merging completion step of, when it is determined that the merging has been completed, releasing the transmission of the information indicating that the merging is being performed.

Cooperative driving method by which follow vehicle merges with or diverges from cooperative driving and cooperative driving method by which lead vehicle controls merging with or diverging from cooperative driving

Disclosed are an emergency vehicle supporting device and system using a drone that resolve forward traffic congestion on a road on which an emergency vehicle is driving via the drone and supports securing of a driving path for the emergency vehicle. According to the present invention, an emergency vehicle supporting device mounted on the emergency vehicle generates drone control information and transmits the generated drone control information to the drone. Further, the drone flies according to the drone control information and a location change of the emergency vehicle and broadcasts an avoidance warning to surrounding vehicles around the flying drone, so that the surrounding vehicles may help the emergency vehicle secure a driving path and thus the emergency vehicle may arrive at a destination within a desired time.

System for supporting emergency vehicle using drone

A method and apparatus for determining congestion of vehicle communication control the vehicle communication, thereby reducing a degree of congestion. In detail, provided are an apparatus and method for controlling vehicle communication, the apparatus including: a reception unit for receiving data units transmitted by each of one or more of object terminals and one or more of pieces of congestion information of the object terminals; a congestion degree pre-determination unit for changing congestion information of a subject vehicle on the basis of the number of data units received during a predetermined period of time; a congestion determination unit for changing electric power control information on the basis of the congestion information of the subject vehicle or the congestion information of the object terminals; and an electric power control unit for controlling transmission electric power of a communication module on the basis of the electric power control information.

Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle communication

An apparatus for detecting an emergency situation of a vehicle comprises a sensor unit, an emergency situation determining unit and a communication unit. The sensor unit constitutes with one or more of a speed sensor, a wheel sensor, an acceleration sensor, a lateral acceleration sensor, a yaw rate sensor, and a tilt sensor. The emergency situation determining unit receives a signal from the sensor unit and determines whether a driver's vehicle is in an emergency situation. The communication unit creates at least one of an emergency situation message representing the emergency situation of the driver's vehicle and a release message representing the release of the emergency situation according to the determination result of the emergency situation determining unit, transmits the message to an external emergency situation propagation device, and allows the emergency situation propagation device to propagate an emergency propagation state of the driver's vehicle to the outside.

Apparatus and method for detecting emergency situation of vehicle

The present invention relates to a technology of controlling a vehicle using vehicle communication, and more particularly, to a technology of receiving, from an object vehicle or an infrastructure device, object vehicle surrounding information or infrastructure device surrounding information including lane information from the viewpoint of the object vehicle or lane information from the viewpoint of the infrastructure device, and then detecting the object vehicle on the basis of the received object vehicle surrounding information and the received infrastructure device surrounding information, thereby performing vehicle controls such as lane change assistance and lane change control.

Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle using vehicle communication

An automatic driving controlling system includes: a speed sensor; and a yaw rate sensor that detects a vehicle yaw rate. A controller is configured: to calculate a target yaw rate required to drive the vehicle to a target point and calculates a real-time target yaw rate by comparing a yaw rate detected in real time with the target yaw rate; to calculate a target lateral acceleration by using a vehicle speed and the target yaw rate, and calculates a real-time target lateral acceleration; and to determine whether the real-time target lateral acceleration-is out of a range between an upper limit threshold value and a lower limit threshold value of the target lateral acceleration while an automatic driving mode is in progress. The controller terminates the automatic driving mode so that the driver takes control of the vehicle to drive.

Automatic driving controlling system and method

A V2X communication device includes a communication unit, an occupancy time calculation unit, a power control unit. The communication unit supports communication between a vehicle and an object. The occupancy time calculation unit calculates at least one of a radio wave occupancy time, in which data is transmitted/received through the communication unit in each communication period, and a radio wave non-occupancy time, in which the data is not transmitted/received in each communication period. The power determination unit determines whether to adjust the data transmission power based on at least one of the radio wave occupancy time and the radio wave non-occupancy time, which are calculated by the occupancy time calculation unit. The power control unit adjusts and controls the data transmission power according to the determination from the power determination unit.

V2X communication device and transmission power control method thereof

Disclosed is a speed control system for a curved road section, which includes: a wireless communication module that supports communication with road-side units and receives road information from the road-side units for a plurality of points on a curved road adjacent to the road-side units; an allowable speed calculation unit that calculates maximum allowable speeds that are the highest speeds at which a vehicle is driven, for the plurality of points, using the road information; an optimum speed calculation unit that calculates an optimum speed in an acceleration and deceleration range that is set in consideration of a predetermined acceleration and deceleration limit of the vehicle; and a control module that displays the optimum speed calculated by the optimum speed calculation unit to the outside, or provides the calculated optimum speed to another control system in the vehicle such that the speed of the vehicle is controlled.

Speed control system and speed control method for curved road section

Disclosed herein are a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication-based vehicle identification apparatus and an identification method thereof. The V2V communication-based vehicle identification apparatus includes a radar sensor unit sensing radar information corresponding to relative distances to object vehicles, a GPS module unit generating GPS information from GPS satellites, a V2V communication unit transmitting the generated GPS information to the object vehicles and receiving GPS information of the object vehicles from the object vehicles through vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication, and a controller calculating probabilities that the GPS information of the object vehicles will be located at areas, set based on the sensed radar information, and identifying vehicles corresponding to the radar information and the GPS information of the object vehicles based on the calculated probabilities.

V2V communication-based vehicle identification apparatus and identification method thereof

A system for preventing vehicle collision according to the present invention includes a steering detection part configured to detect collision with an object, a calculation part configured to calculate a yaw rate of a vehicle and to calculate a target steering angle, a brake control part configured to control a steering operation of the vehicle according to the target steering angle, and a wheel control part interlocked with the brake control part and configured to control the steering operation of the vehicle according to the target steering angle. And a method of preventing vehicle collision according to the present invention includes estimating collision with an object at a steering detection part of a vehicle, calculating a yaw rate of the vehicle at a calculation part, calculating a target steering angle according to the yaw rate calculated by the calculation part, and performing a steering operation for returning the vehicle according to the target steering angle by at least one of a wheel control part and a brake control part.

System for preventing vehicle collision using yaw rate and method of preventing vehicle collision using the same

Disclosed are herein an apparatus of guiding safe driving at intersections and a method of guiding safe driving using the same. The driving guiding apparatus at intersections includes an intersection condition sensing unit installed at one side of a vehicle and sensing the current conditions around an intersection, an intersection pre-entry condition calculation unit installed at the other side of the vehicle and calculating in advance current condition data before the vehicle enters the intersection based on current condition data corresponding to the current conditions around the intersection sensed by the intersection condition sensing unit, and an intersection pre-entry vehicle speed indication unit installed at the other side of the vehicle and indicating a reference vehicle speed, corresponding to the current condition data calculated by the intersection pre-entry condition calculation unit, before the vehicle enters the intersection.

Apparatus of guiding safe driving at intersections and method of guiding safe driving using the same

Disclosed herein are a vehicle control apparatus and a vehicle control method. The vehicle control apparatus includes a yaw-rate sensor to detect a yaw-rate of a vehicle, a steering-angle sensor to detect a steering angle of the vehicle, and a Micro Controller Unit (MCU) to calculate a yaw-rate based on the steering-angle, to calculate a target braking pressure of a wheel based on a difference between the actual yaw-rate detected via the yaw-rate sensor and the calculated yaw-rate, and to adjust a braking pressure of the wheel based on the calculated target braking pressure.

Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method

Disclosed herein are a lane-change assistance system of a vehicle and a lane-change assistance method thereof. The lane change assistance system includes a wheel speed sensor to detect a wheel speed of the vehicle, a steering angle sensor to detect a steering angle of the vehicle, and a micro controller unit to calculate, using the wheel speed and the steering angle, a desired yaw rate value required to allow the vehicle to return to an original lane when attempting to move the vehicle to an adjacent lane, but another vehicle in the adjacent lane threatens the corresponding vehicle, to compare the desired yaw rate value with a preset threshold value, and to assist a lane change maneuver of the vehicle based on the comparison result.

Growing community of inventors

Seoul, South Korea

Man Bok Park