Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

University of Ottawa

Prakash Mohan Peranandam

Arun Adiththan

Ramesh Sethu

Md Mhafuzul Islam

Erik B Golm

Jiyu Zhang

Meng Jiang

Paolo Giusto

Joseph G D Ambrosio

Shengbing Jiang

Azeem Sarwar

Mohamed A Layouni

Manuel Forero Rueda

Donald K Grimm

Shuqing Zeng

Bakhtiar Brian Litkouhi

Shige Wang

Jianfeng Wang

Shifang Li

Roy J Mathieu

Lawrence A Bush

Wenyuan Qi

Soumen De

Dnyanesh Rajpathak

Brent N Bacchus

Chen Zhou

Farui Peng

Yuchen Zhou

Evripidis Paraskevas

Sachin Raviram

Osman Eser Atesoglu

Muralikrishnan Kailasam

Amirhossein Zolfagharian

Zohreh Aghababaeyan

Ambar A Gadkari

Alena Rodionova

Zhiqiang J Zhou

Daniel Bouie

A system for providing situational recommendations within a vehicle includes a system controller in communication with a plurality of onboard sensors, the plurality of onboard sensors adapted to collect real-time data related to a location of the vehicle and operating conditions of the vehicle, a database in communication with the system controller adapted to store data related to past actions and data related to a location of the vehicle and operating conditions of the vehicle when such past actions occurred, the system controller including a driver specific machine learning model adapted to predict a desired action based on the real-time data related to the location and operating conditions of the vehicle and data from the database, the system controller further adapted to initiate the predicted desired action, receive input from an occupant within the vehicle, and update the driver specific machine learning model.

Situational recommendations and control

A system and method for locating a trailer coupler on a trailer to assist with the coupling of the trailer coupler to a vehicle hitch on a vehicle. The system includes a human-machine interface, a vehicle camera and a trailer camera, a mobile device application (App) with access to camera and mobile network a vehicle-to-infrastructure communication network, controllers, a memory, sensors, and a trailer detection and trajectory planning application. The application includes: initializing a data stream from the vehicle and trailer camera, capturing the data stream from the vehicle camera and from the trailer camera, determining key landmarks in the data stream, combining the key landmarks, determining a coupler location, computing a joint reference trajectory using the coupler location, and providing navigation assistance in real time based on the joint reference trajectory.

System and method for detecting a trailer coupler and planning a trajectory

A child seat latching assembly for a vehicle is provided. The assembly comprises a child seat comprising a base portion having a base bar, a back portion having a back bar, and a first magnet generating a first magnetic field. The assembly further comprises a vehicle seat comprising a receiving portion having a base latch unit including a base connector comprising a base lock to secure the base bar in the base connector. The vehicle seat comprising a support portion having a back latch unit including a back connector comprising a back lock to secure the back bar in the back connector. The vehicle seat comprising a second magnet generating a second magnetic field in operation with the first magnetic unit. The first and second magnetic fields arranged to align the portable child seat with the vehicle seat when the first and second magnets are within a predetermined distance.

Child seat latching system for a vehicle

A resource sharing marketplace platform for vehicle parking spots includes a back-office server including a controller adapted to run a plurality of integrated systems and a wireless communication module in communication with the controller, wherein, the resource sharing marketplace platform is adapted to receive, via the wireless communication module, a request from a user, collect, via the wireless communication module, data related to available registered parking spots from a network database of registered parking spots, and provide a response to the user including a sub-group of registered parking spots.

Parking and charging marketplace and reservation system

Method of controlling and smart indication of a child seat latch assembly for a vehicle is provided. The method comprises identifying a vehicle seat in the vehicle when a request for child seat latch assembly activation is received. The vehicle seat is arranged to receive a child seat for securement in the vehicle. The method comprises automatic or manual activating the child seat latch assembly and aligning the child seat with the vehicle seat. The method comprises sensing the base bar relative to the base connector and sensing the back bar relative to the back connector. The method comprises locking the base bar in the base connector and locking the back bar in the back connector. The method further comprises monitoring the portable child seat relative to the stationary vehicle seat to maintain an aligned position, a locked base position, communication of the secureness status and a locked back position.

System and method of controlling a child seat latching assembly for a vehicle

A system for controlling an ego vehicle following a lead vehicle without vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication includes sensors disposed on the ego vehicle and capturing ego and lead vehicle condition information. Control modules disposed in the ego vehicle each have a processor, memory, and input/output (I/O) ports. The I/O ports communicate with the one or more sensors. The memory stores control logic, and the processor executes the control logic, including a lead vehicle following (LVF) application. A first control logic receives a start input from a vehicle occupant via a human-machine interface (HMI) in communication with the I/O ports. A second control logic performs a feasibility analysis of ego and lead vehicle conditions according to feasibility conditions. A third control logic selectively initiates lead vehicle following. A fourth control logic continuously monitors feasibility of lead vehicle following, and fifth control logic selectively disables the LVF application upon receiving a disengagement command.

Method for following a lead vehicle without vehicle-to-vehicle communication

A system for context-oriented auto park assist includes sensor, communication, and vehicle control sub-systems. Each sub-systems has control modules having processors, memories, and input/output (I/O) ports. The I/O ports of the sensor and communication sub-systems are in communication with the vehicle control system. The control modules execute program code portions stored in the memory including a program code portions that generates occupant, environmental, time and location, and vehicle contexts, and a combined context by combining the occupant, environmental, location and time, and vehicle contexts. The system scans a parking area for candidate parking spots by applying the combined context vector as the vehicle is driven through the parking area. The system informs vehicle occupants of the presence of candidate parking spots, and upon receiving an input from the vehicle occupants, performs one or more automated driver assistance system (ADAS) actions through the vehicle control system to park the vehicle.

System and method for context oriented auto park assist

A method in an On-Demand Autonomy system includes: monitoring for a trip change request from a plurality of platoon vehicles including a first leader vehicle (Lv) and a follower vehicle (Fv). When a trip termination request is received from a platoon vehicle, the method includes broadcasting information regarding the request to the other platoon vehicles, and monitoring for an acknowledgement of the request. When the trip termination request originated from the first Lv, the method includes electing a new Lv, computing a rendezvous point for the new Lv and the Fv, and signaling the Fv and new Lv regarding the rendezvous point. When a trip modification request is received from the Fv, the method includes broadcasting information regarding the request to the first Lv, electing a new Lv, computing a rendezvous point for the new Lv and the Fv, and signaling the Fv and new Lv regarding the rendezvous point.

System amd method for providing a ride assistant for on-demand autonomy

A resource sharing marketplace platform includes a back-office server including a controller adapted to run a plurality of integrated systems and a wireless communication module in communication with the controller, wherein, the resource sharing marketplace platform is adapted to receive a request from a user, collect data from a plurality of acceptable service providers, and provide a response to the user.

Electronics and data resource sharing marketplace platform

A computing system including a cooperative system architecture for cataloging, informing, sharing, and managing engineering assets within an organization includes a user management subsystem for creating a registered user profile associated with a specific user of the computing system. The registered user profile includes user metadata that provides identifying characteristics of the specific user. The computing system includes an asset management subsystem including an asset repository for recording one or more engineering assets. The asset management subsystem modifies the user metadata of the registered user profile in response to the specific user recording an engineering asset in the asset repository. The computing system includes a test management subsystem including a test repository for recording one or more test bill of materials.

Cooperative system architecture for engineering asset management and sharing

Systems and methods for an On-Demand Autonomy (ODA) service. The system includes a selection module of a leader vehicle (Lv) connected to an ODA server to determine whether to confirm a request for an on-demand autonomy (ODA) service which has been broadcast wherein the ODA service request includes control of a follower vehicle (Fv) to a requested location by creating a virtual link between the Lv and the Fv to configure a vehicle platoon to enable transport of the Fv by the Lv wherein the vehicle platoon is a linking of the Lv to the Fv via the virtual link to enable the Lv to assume the control of the Fv to the requested location.

System and method for software architecture for leader vehicle capabilities for an on-demand autonomy (ODA) service

Systems and methods for a cloud-based server system configured for an On-Demand Autonomy (ODA) service are disclosed. The cloud-based server in communication with a first vehicle and a second vehicle to receive a trip request for the ODA service from the first vehicle, and seek an agreement to establish a virtual link with the first vehicle to the second vehicle by identifying one second vehicle by broadcasting the trip request to the group of second vehicles; identifying a second vehicle from submitted responses based on an application using a modeled clone with a set of functionalities to perform a matching operation between the first and second vehicles; and coordinating responses based on results of the matching operation to confirm an acceptance of the agreement; and creating a trip plan for the trip request for the ODA service based on a set of preferences received from each of the vehicles.

System, and methods for implementing a server architecture for an On-Demand Autonomy (ODA) service

A system is provided for updating vehicle software configurations for multiple vehicles. The system includes a network having multiple ECUs carried by the vehicles, with each ECU having an ECU software configuration including software components with one or more versions. The system further includes a network appliance having a processor communicating with the ECUs and a computer readable medium. The processor is programmed to identify coverage points for software components. The processor is further programmed to collect clusters for validating an update of the associated software components and determine optimal sets of clusters, which is less than or equal to a total of the clusters. The processor is further programmed to rank the clusters of the selected optimal set, based on a vehicle coverage percentage of each cluster, and transmit the optimal set for software configuration validation and then finally transmit the validated update to the associated vehicle ECUs.

System and process for vehicle software configuration coverage measurement for update validation

Methods and systems are provided for indicating a driving situation including at least one vehicle. The system includes a first processor, a second processor and an external device. A first processor obtains driving information, encodes the driving information and communicates the encoded driving information to the second processor. The second processor receives and decodes the encoded driving information. The second processor further allocates a predefined indication pattern to the decoded driving information, wherein the predefined indication pattern includes a graphical representation of an upcoming driving event involving the vehicle. An external device visualizes a current driving situation including the vehicle together with the predefined indication pattern.

Methods and systems for indicating a driving situation to external users

A vehicle cleaning system for cleaning a vehicle including a processor and a memory including computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include determining that a passenger compartment of the vehicle requires cleaning and identifying a type of cleaning required. The operations also include that at least one of a fragrance system, a dry particulate removal system, and a wet particulate removal system is activated in response to the type of cleaning required.

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Rochester Hills, MI, United States of America

Prakash Mohan Peranandam