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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2016
Nio Usa, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Austin L. Newman, San Jose, CA (US);
Dennis Polischuk, San Jose, CA (US);
NIO USA, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A control system has at least one thermal imaging sensor configured to track a thermal profile of a wheel of a nearby vehicle and provide data indicative of the thermal profile. The control system also has a computing device including a processor and a memory. The computing device is configured to receive the data from the at least one thermal imaging sensor, determine a wheel angle parameter of the front wheel of the nearby vehicle based on the data, and generate a control command to change at least one of a direction or an acceleration of the vehicle based on the determined wheel angle parameter.