Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Robert D Burns

Mark A Theobald

Brendan M Conlon

Wei Tong

Alaa M Khamis

Eric M Rask

Anthony P Tata

Kyle Kenneth Kinsey

Donald P Pfaff

Mark A Damico

A system for responding to adversarial behavior within an autonomous vehicle includes a pedestrian detection system in communication with a vehicle controller and an adversarial intent algorithm adapted to determine a risk level of adversarial behavior from at least one pedestrian within proximity of the autonomous vehicle, the vehicle controller adapted to provide proactive and reactive actions to be performed by the autonomous vehicle in response to the adversarial behavior based on the risk level of the adversarial behavior.

Responses to vulnerable road user's adversarial behavior

A device for supplying glue pellets to a machine includes a screen for segregating pellets according to size, a passageway for carrying into the machine pellets that do not pass through the screen, and a container for containing glue pellets at a higher elevation than an elevation of the screen, and directing away from the machine pellets that pass through the screen.

Glue pellet separator

A method of operating a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is provided including the steps of: A) determining whether the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is receiving power from an external power source; B) disabling the operation of the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and executing a thermal program if the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is receiving power from the external power source, wherein the thermal program includes charging a high voltage battery and monitoring the state of charge of the high voltage battery; C) determining if the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle continues to receive power from the external power source; and D) enabling operation of the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle if the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is no longer receiving power from the external power source.

Method of operating a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle

A powertrain includes an engine with an engine output member and a transmission with two motor/generators and a transmission input member operatively connected to the engine output member. A control unit is configured to selectively cause a device to resist or prevent rotation of the input member in response to the existence of certain conditions, such as the engine not supplying torque to the transmission and the transmission being in reverse operating mode. Resisting or preventing rotation of the input member improves transmission performance when only the motor/generators are supplying torque to propel the vehicle. A corresponding method is also provided.

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Robert D Burns