Patents by Inventor JUNQING WEI

JUNQING WEI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20180120845
    Abstract: A sensor-control system for operating an automated vehicle includes a first sensor, a second sensor, and a controller. The first sensor is used to detect objects proximate to a host-vehicle. The first sensor is characterized by a first-sensing-technology. The second sensor is used to detect objects proximate to the host-vehicle. The second sensor is characterized by a second-sensing-technology different from the first-sensing-technology. The controller is in communication with the first sensor and the second sensor. A location of an object detected by the first-sensor is used to select a field-of-view of the second-sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: SERGE LAMBERMONT, JUNQING WEI, JONG HO LEE, WENDA XU
  • Publication number: 20180039269
    Abstract: An operation-security system for an automated vehicle includes an object-detector and a controller. The object-detector includes at least three sensors. Each sensor is one of a camera used to determine an image-location of an object proximate to a host-vehicle, a lidar-unit used to determine a lidar-location of the object proximate to the host-vehicle, and a radar-unit used to determine a radar-location of the object proximate to the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the at least three sensors. The controller is configured to determine a composite-location based on a comparison of locations indicated by the at least three sensors. Information from one sensor is ignored when a respective location indicated by the one sensor differs from the composite-location by greater than an error-threshold. If a remote sensor not on the host-vehicle is used, V2V or V2I communications may be used to communicate a location to the host-vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: SERGE LAMBERMONT, JUNSUNG KIM, JUNQING WEI, GAURAV BHATIA
  • Publication number: 20180001893
    Abstract: An acceleration management system for operating an automated vehicle includes a navigation-device, an object-detector, and a controller. The navigation-device is used to determine a travel-path of a host-vehicle. The object-detector is used to determine when an other-vehicle will intersect the travel-path of the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the object-detector and the navigation-device. The controller is configured to select an acceleration-profile for the host-vehicle that avoids interference with the other-vehicle, and operate the host-vehicle in accordance with the acceleration-profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: JUNQING WEI, WENDA XU, JARROD M. SNIDER
  • Publication number: 20170349181
    Abstract: A lane management system for operating an automated vehicle includes a navigation-device, a vehicle-detector, and a controller suitable for use on a host-vehicle. The navigation-device is used to determine a preferred-route to a destination of the host-vehicle. The vehicle-detector is used to determine a relative-location of an other-vehicle proximate to the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the navigation-device and the vehicle-detector. The controller is configured to determine an alternate-route when the relative-location is such that a preferred-lane of the preferred-route is obstructed whereby the host-vehicle is unable to follow the preferred-route. Alternatively, the controller is configured to determine an initiate-time to perform a lane-change necessary to maneuver the host-vehicle into a preferred-lane of the preferred-route so the host-vehicle can follow the preferred-route, wherein the initiate-time is determined based on the relative-location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: JUNQING WEI, WENDA XU, JONG HO LEE, GAURAV BHATIA, JUNSUNG KIM
  • Publication number: 20170292843
    Abstract: A route-planning system suitable for use on an automated vehicle includes a memory and a controller. The memory is used to store map-data indicative of a plurality of possible-routes to a destination. Each possible-route is characterized by a difficulty-score. The controller is in communication with the memory. The controller is operable to select from the memory a preferred-route from the plurality of possible-routes. The preferred-route is selected based on the difficulty-score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: JUNQING WEI, JARROD M. SNIDER, JUNSUNG KIM, WENDA XU, GAURAV BHATIA, JONG HO LEE, VASUDEVA PAI MELGANGOLLI
  • Publication number: 20140195093
    Abstract: An autonomous driving merge management system includes an autonomous driving control device and an intention decision management system. The management system includes a candidate strategy subsystem generating a plurality of candidate driving strategies, a merging vehicle behavior recognition subsystem predicting a merging intention of a merging vehicle; an intention-based interactive prediction subsystem predicting future merging scenarios between the host vehicle and merging vehicle as a function of inputs by the merging vehicle behavior recognition subsystem and inputs by the candidate strategy subsystem, and a cost function-based evaluation subsystem determining a cost for each future merging scenario generated by the intention-based interactive prediction subsystem. A processor selects a merge strategy of the host vehicle based on intention-based prediction results and cost function-based evaluation results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicants: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: BAKHTIAR BRIAN LITKOUHI, JUNQING WEI, JOHN M. DOLAN