Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Shadi Jammoul

Levasseur Tellis

Shane Elwart

Aaron Lewis Mills

Gerald H Engelman

Mark Douglas Malone

Michael Hafner

Nitendra Nath

Andrew Arthur Brown

Tyler Glenn

Basel Alghanem

Ahmad Khalifeh

Russell Schloss

Andreas Giersiefer

Benjamin D Ballard

Zhao Wang

Bahgat Aboushaban

Nicolas Vandapel

Yujun Wang

Limin Wu

Jonathan Mcneely

Systems and methods for complementary control of an autonomous vehicle (AV) are disclosed. The methods include receiving information comprising an active trajectory of an AV that the AV intends to following for a planning horizon. The methods also include using the active trajectory to identify one or more regions in an environment of the AV such as a fallback monitoring region (FMR) and an active monitoring region (AMR), and generating one or more instructions for causing the AV to execute a collision mitigation action in response to an object being detected within the AMR. The methods further include transmitting the one or more instructions to an AV platform (AVP) for execution.

Complementary control system for an autonomous vehicle

Apparatuses and methods for automated parking of autonomous vehicles are provided herein. An example method includes receiving, by an automated driving system of an autonomous vehicle, a pull over request during a trip to a destination; initiating, by the automated driving system, a pull over sequence, the pull over sequence including determining if the autonomous vehicle is within a pre-determined distance from the destination; stopping the autonomous vehicle when the autonomous vehicle is within the pre-determined distance; and when the autonomous vehicle is not within the pre-determined distance, initiating a parking sequence to park the autonomous vehicle at a nearest available parking location.

Systems and methods for automated stopping and/or parking of autonomous vehicles

A computer in a vehicle includes first and second electronic control units (ECUs). The first and second ECUs are programmed to monitor, respectively, a first operating condition and a second operating condition. Each operating condition includes one of path deviation, lane width, user awareness, or steering torque. The second ECU is programmed to monitor the second operating condition according to a protocol with a security measure. The first or second ECU is further programmed to control vehicle operation based on the first or second operating condition.

Enhanced vehicle operation

A computer is programmed to score a requested vehicle lane change and actuate vehicle components to perform the lane change upon determining that the score is less than a predetermined threshold within the predetermined time.

Vehicle lane changing

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