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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2018
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Selina Pan, San Francisco, CA;
Carrie Bobier-Tiu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Avinash Balachandran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods to improve ride comfort for users within a vehicle during operation of the vehicle are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals; determine the current operational information regarding the vehicle; determine a current set of forces operating on one or more of the vehicle and one or more of the users within the vehicle; compare a characteristic of the current set of forces to a comfort threshold level; and responsive to the characteristic breaching the comfort threshold level, effectuate a modification in the operation of the vehicle such that a subsequent change in the characteristic that corresponds to the modification reduces and/or remedies the breach of the comfort threshold level.