Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Transmission control
Patent
1997-02-28
1999-04-20
Louis-Jacques, Jacques H.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Transmission control
701 57, 701 58, 701 55, 477120, 477904, 706905, G06G 770, G06F 1518
Patent
active
058954350
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for estimating a drive mode of a motor vehicle desired by an operator of the motor vehicle, including a variable calculating device and a drive mode estimating device, wherein the variable calculating device calculates at least one of drive mode indicating variables such as a drive force of the vehicle desired by the operator upon starting of the vehicle, a maximum rate of increase of the drive force, a maximum deceleration of the vehicle upon operation of a manually operated member for brake application to the vehicle, a coasting run time of the vehicle and a steady run time of the vehicle, and wherein the drive mode estimating device includes a neural network which receives the drive mode indicating variable or variables calculated by the variable calculating device, so that the drive mode estimating device estimates the drive mode of the motor vehicle desired by the operator on the basis of an output of the neural network. The output of the neural network may be used to control a desired controllable system of the vehicle such as an automatic transmission and a vehicle drive force control device.
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Fukumura Kagenori
Hayakawa Kisaburo
Ito Yoshio
Nakamura Yasunari
Ohta Takashi
Louis-Jacques Jacques H.
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
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