Renault S.a.s.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Ampere S.a.s.

Pedro Kvieska

Ludovic Merienne

Simon Mustaki

Ahmed Ketfi-Cherif

Guillermo Pita-gil

Ana-Lucia Driemeyer-Franco

Raphael Quilliard

Mehdi Gati

Laurent Gagneur

Francois Fauvel

Philippe Chevrel

Mohamed Yagoubi

Joan Davins-valldaura

Olivier Reyss

Noelle Janiaud

Dominique Beauvois

Emmanuel Godoy

Ion Ghita

A method for managing the longitudinal speed of a vehicle includes detecting vehicles in traffic surrounding the first vehicle and calculating reference speeds of the vehicles. The method further includes calculating a maximum and minimum speed setpoint based on the reference speeds and calculating a speed setpoint of the vehicle that is between or equal to the maximum and minimum speed setpoints.

Method for automatically managing the longitudinal speed of a vehicle

A method for implementing a closed loop of an advanced driving aid device for the lateral control of a motor vehicle includes synthesizing a controller of the closed loop by solving an optimization problem based on a bicycle model of the vehicle. A family of at least two bicycle models of the vehicle is established, these models having, with respect to one another, at least one dispersion chosen from among a dispersion of mass of the vehicle, a dispersion of drift rigidity on a drivetrain of the vehicle, a dispersion of the center of gravity of the vehicle, and a dispersion of the position of the matrix of inertia of the vehicle, the optimization problem being solved on the basis of all models of the family.

Method and device for implementing a closed loop of an advanced driving aid device

A method for setting an anticipator module with which a control device controls the trajectory of a motor vehicle is equipped includes detecting whether the anticipator module is unsuitable during a turn by taking account of a lateral deviation with respect to an ideal trajectory and/or a contribution of a feedback module of the control device, determining primary parameters, calculating a secondary parameter by an optimization-based calculation method taking account of the determined primary parameters, and updating a bicycle model of the vehicle by taking account of the calculated secondary parameter.

Device and method for monitoring the trajectory of a motor vehicle

An anticipating module for a device for controlling, in real time, the path of a motor vehicle includes a sub-module for computing a turning command for compensating for the curvature of a bend in the lane of the vehicle and a variable-gain device that is connected to an output of the computing sub-module. The gain of the variable-gain device is connected to a controller to adjust the gain so as to decrease the lateral offset between the centre of gravity of the vehicle and the centre of the lane of the vehicle depending on the result of the comparison of components of a vector of current measurements of state variables of the device to one another and to a detection threshold, the output of the variable-gain device being the steering command for compensating for the curvature of the bend.

Anticipating module, associated device and method for controlling path in real time

A control method is provided for controlling a lateral position of a motor vehicle. The control method includes calculating a sighting distance of a detector means embedded in the vehicle, calculating a first component of a steering angle setpoint of a steered wheels of the vehicle, and calculating a second component of the steering angle setpoint. The first component is an open loop component of a control system, while the second component is a closed loop component of the control system. The first component is weighted by a gain that is a decreasing function of the sighting distance.

Method for controlling the lateral position of a motor vehicle

A control method is provided for controlling a declutching of a sliding gear of a vehicle gearbox having dogs. The sliding gear rotates with a shaft of the vehicle gearbox on which the sliding gear moves axially between a declutched position and an engaged position to transmit rotation to a vehicle wheel. The control method comprises applying a zero torque request to all power sources of the vehicle, applying a declutching instruction to the sliding gear, estimating a resistance torque on the dogs in absence of rapid declutching, calculating a residual torque on the dogs as a function of a calculated resistance torque and an anti-disengagement angle of the resistance torque on the dogs, cancelling the residual torque by application of two opposing cancellation torques on the sliding gear, and declutching the sliding gear.

Method of controlling the declutching of a sliding gear

A device synchronizes primary speed of a primary shaft receiving an electrical torque from an electric machine with a secondary speed lower than the primary speed of a secondary transmission shaft. The primary shaft and secondary shaft are decoupled. The primary shaft has a kinetic energy associated with the primary speed. The device provides electrical braking torque to the primary shaft until the primary speed is substantially equal to the secondary speed. The device also at least partially recovers, in the form of electrical energy, the kinetic energy lost by the primary shaft and transmits the electrical energy to an energy storage device.

Device for synchronization of a pinion on a gearbox shaft in regenerative mode, and corresponding method and motor vehicle

A battery of accumulators including a plurality of power storage cells and an electrical network which connects the cells to one another. The cells are grouped together in composite cells including two identical branches each including at least one cell and the composite cells being connected in series to one another. The electrical network includes: a mechanism for parallel or connection in series of the cells of each composite cell, and a mechanism for controlling the connection mechanism, which is configured to connect the cells of each composite cell in parallel or in series to adapt an output voltage of the battery of accumulators to a desired value and to balance charging states of the cells.

Structure for modulating the voltage of a battery and the active equilibration thereof

A method for controlling a battery charger for a motor vehicle, the battery charger including an input filter connecting a three-phase power supply circuit to a buck converter, a boost circuit being connected to the buck converter and to the battery. The method includes: determining an output threshold voltage of the buck converter on the basis of the difference between a battery-current measurement and a battery-current request; keeping the output voltage of the buck converter constant; and controlling switches of the boost stage to be kept open.

Method for controlling a charger for a motor vehicle battery with a reduction of losses due to switching

A device for charging a battery, for example of an electric traction motor vehicle, based on a single-phase power supply network, the device including a filtering stage configured to be connected to the single-phase network, a voltage step-down stage connected to the filtering stage, a voltage step-up stage configured to be connected to the battery and coupled to the voltage step-down stage via an inductive component or an induction coil, and a regulating unit configured to impose chopping duty ratios on the voltage step-down stage and on the voltage step-up stage. The regulating unit compensates for phase shift between an input current of the voltage step-down stage and an input voltage of the voltage step-down stage.

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Versailles, France

Pedro Kvieska