1.-18. (canceled)
19. A control system for a vehicle combination comprising a towing vehicle and a trailer, with an electronically activatable drive train that includes at least a steering system, a braking system and a drive unit; wherein:
a manual operator control device which is fixed on the vehicle can be used by the vehicle driver to input a driving request for manual operation of the vehicle combination, and generates a standardized movement vector from the driving request;
a control device which is fixed on the towing vehicle, outputs control signals for activating the drive train, based on a movement vector on the input side and, for the transmission of the control signals, is coupled to the drive train, which processes the control signals to implement the driving request;
a trailer coordination device, which is fixed on the towing vehicle, reads in at least one trailer-specific actual value, which it passes on to the control device; and
the control device generates the control signals based on the at least one trailer-specific actual value.
20. The control system as claimed in claim 19, wherein:
an articulating angle sensor senses, as a trailer-specific actual value, a current actual articulating angle between the towing vehicle and a steering towbar of a trailer that can be steered by the steering towbar, a trailer formed as a semitrailer or a trailer rigidly connected to a rigid towbar, and generates an articulating angle signal correlated thereto; and
the articulating angle sensor is fixed on one of the towing vehicle and the trailer.
21. The control system as claimed in claim 20, wherein a towbar angle sensor, which is fixed on the trailer, senses as a trailer-specific actual value, a current actual towbar angle between the towbar and the trailer, and generates a towbar angle signal correlated with it.
22. The control system as claimed in claim 21, wherein for transmission of the articulating angle signal or the towbar angle signal, at least one of the articulating angle sensor and the towbar angle sensor is coupled to the trailer coordination device.
23. The control system as claimed in claim 22, wherein a trailer control device, which is fixed on the trailer, can be used to record a trailer-specific actual value, and passes on the actual value IW to the trailer coordination device.
24. The control system as claimed in claim 23, wherein for transmission of the articulating angle signal or the towbar angle signal, at least one of the articulating angle sensor and the towbar angle sensor is coupled to the trailer control device.
25. The control system as claimed in claim 24, wherein the trailer coordination device is implemented in the form of hardware or software, in the control device.
26. The control system as claimed in claims 25, wherein during reversing of the vehicle combination, a reverse assisting device, which is fixed on the towing vehicle, transforms an input movement vector into an output reversing movement vector, based on the at least one trailer-specific actual value, and makes it available to the control device.
27. The control system as claimed in claim 26, wherein, during reversing of the vehicle combination, the reverse assisting device makes it possible to input the driving requests in the same way as when reversing a single-element forward control vehicle.
28. The control system as claimed in claim 26, wherein the reverse assisting device is implemented in the control device, in the form of hardware or software.
29. The control system as claimed in claim 28, wherein at least one autonomous operator control device is provided independently of the vehicle combination, which device can be used to input a driving request for autonomous operation of the vehicle combination and generates a standardized movement vector from the driving request.
30. The control system as claimed in claim 29, wherein the steering system is designed as a steer-by-wire system.
31. The control system as claimed in claim 29, wherein:
the steering system has a longitudinal column for at least one of mechanical and hydraulic coupling of a manual steering device to steerable wheels of the towing vehicle;
the steering system also has an electronically activatable steering actuator, which is drive-connected to the steering column and can be activated by the control signals of the steering device, at least during autonomous operation of the vehicle combination.
32. The control system at least as claimed in claim 29, wherein at least one autonomous operator control device has a path computer, which, based on input actual values and setpoint values for the orientation and position of the towing vehicle and the trailer, calculates a path of movement which comprises a sequence of movement vectors that move the vehicle combination from the actual orientation and the actual position into the setpoint orientation and setpoint position when the movement vectors of the path of movement are processed.
33. The steering system as claimed in claim 32, wherein at least one of the autonomous operator control device and the path computer is a component part of an automated freight forwarding yard, operations yard, or logistics center for vehicles which can be driven autonomously.
34. The control system as claimed in claim 33, wherein the control device and the autonomous operator control device have wireless communication capability.
35. The control system as claimed in claim 34, wherein in autonomous operation, the control device reduces a maximum speed of the vehicle combination.
36. The control system as claimed in claims 35, wherein:
in autonomous operation, the control device allows entry of movement vectors of the manual operator control device; and, in the event of a conflict of movement vectors of the manual operator control device with movement vectors of the autonomous operator control device, the control device prioritizes steering commands and acceleration commands of the autonomous operator control device and prioritizes braking commands of the manual operator control device.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A voice controlled device, comprising:
a microphone component configured to capture an un-stored voice command issued by a user; and
a speech recognition engine configured to:
convert the un-stored voice command to device recognizable text;
compare the device recognized text of the un-stored voice command to a plurality of stored voice commands of a voice controlled device; and
identify a stored voice command among the plurality of stored voice commands based on the comparison of the device recognizable text of the un-stored voice command to the plurality of stored voice commands.
2. The device of claim 1, including a user interface to display the identified stored voice command.
3. The device of claim 1, wherein the identification of the stored voice command includes a prediction of the stored voice command the user intended by the un-stored voice command.
4. The device of claim 1, wherein the stored voice command identified includes a subset of the plurality of stored voice commands of the voice controlled device.
5. The device of claim 1, including an input component configured to receive an input from the user to add a new voice command to the plurality of stored voice commands.
6. The device of claim 1, wherein the identified stored voice command is a stored voice command among the plurality of stored voice commands that matches at least a portion of the device recognizable text.
7. The device of claim 6, wherein the match includes a keyword match of one or more words of the device recognizable text to the identified stored voice command in a stored voice commands file.
8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising instructions executable by a processing resource to cause a computing device to:
receive an un-stored voice command streamed from a microphone component of a voice controlled device;
convert the un-stored voice command to device recognizable text;
compare the device recognizable text of the un-stored voice command to a plurality of stored voice commands of the voice controlled device;
identify a stored voice command among the plurality of stored voice commands based on the comparison of the device recognizable text of the un-stored voice command to the plurality of stored voice commands; and
inform a user of the identified stored voice command via text-to-speech andor a display on a screen.
9. The medium of claim 8, including instructions executable by the processing resource to identify the un-stored voice command is not one of the plurality of stored voice command by identification that the device recognizable text does not identically match any of the plurality of stored voice commands.
10. The medium of claim 8, wherein the stored voice commands are stored the computer-readable medium and include device specific commands executable by the processing resource to cause the computing device to perform functions.
11. The medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions are executable to:
identify a subset of the plurality of stored voice commands based on the comparison; and
provide a display of a list of sub-commands of the subset of the plurality of stored voice commands to inform the user of the subset.
12. The medium of claim 11, including instructions executable by the processing resource to receive a subsequent voice command from the user using the microphone component, wherein the subsequent voice command includes a selected one of the plurality of sub-commands in the list.
13. The medium of claim 12, including instructions executable by the processing resource to revise the list to include at least one of a sub-command of the selected sub-command and a stored voice command associated with the selected sub-command.
14. The medium of claim 12, including instructions executable by the processing resource to perform a function associated with the selected sub-command in response to user input.
15. A method for identifying an unknown voice command;
capturing a plurality of voice commands from a user using a microphone component of a voice controlled device;
streaming the plurality of captured voice commands to a speech recognition engine of the voice controlled device;
converting the plurality of captured voice commands to device recognizable text;
identifying at least a first voice command of the plurality of captured voice commands is an un-stored voice command based on the respective device recognizable text;
comparing the respective device recognizable text of the at least first voice command to a stored voice commands file;
identifying a subset of the plurality of stored voice commands based on the comparison of the respective device recognizable text to the stored voice commands file; and
informing a user of the subset of the plurality of stored voice commands.
16. The method of claim 15, including performing a stored voice command in the subset of the plurality of stored voice commands in response to user input.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the user input includes a subsequent stored voice command issued by the user, and the method further includes:
capturing the subsequent stored voice command from the user using the microphone; and
converting the subsequent stored voice command to device recognizable text.
18. The method of claim 15, wherein informing the user of the subset includes:
providing a list of the subset of the plurality of stored voice commands, wherein each stored voice command in the subsets includes a sub-command of a stored voice command that is output from a keyword search of one or more words of the device recognizable test, and the method further includes:
revising the list to include sub-commands of a selected sub-command among the plurality of sub-commands.
19. The method of claim 15, including identifying at least a second voice command of the plurality of captured voice commands is a stored voice command among the plurality of stored voice commands.
20. The method of claim 19, including performing a function associated with the second voice command in response to identifying the second voice command is one of the plurality of stored voice command.