Patents by Inventor Tsung-Ming Hsu

Tsung-Ming Hsu 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: 20250171015
    Abstract: A minimum risk decision system for lane-changing includes at least one processor. The processor includes an external risk region calculating module, a system failure judging module, a self-driving starting condition confirming module, and a decision module. The external risk region calculating module calculates an external risk region. The system failure judging module judges whether a system fails. The self-driving starting condition confirming module confirms whether a self-driving starting condition is satisfied. The decision module includes a judging unit, a horizontal vector calculating unit, a drivable space calculating unit, and a decision executing unit. The judging unit judges whether the host vehicle encounters any one of an external risk, a system failure risk and a self-driving starting condition unsatisfied risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Hao-Che CHANG, Tsung-Ming HSU, Shou-Ti CHENG
  • Publication number: 20250155890
    Abstract: A vehicle platoon intersection decision-making system includes multiple vehicles. When executing the intersection decision-making process, the captain vehicle determines whether the platoon can pass through the intersection at the current speed command; if yes, the captain vehicle directs each vehicle to maintain travelling at the current speed command to pass through the intersection; if not, the captain vehicle generates a first optimized speed control information through a first speed decision-making process, making the platoon decelerate before reaching the intersection and begin to accelerate at an acceleration critical time point such that the platoon passes through the intersection. When the platoon passes through the intersection at the current speed command, no energy for accelerating or decelerating is wasted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Kun-Sheng WANG, Tsung-Ming HSU
  • Publication number: 20240208547
    Abstract: A self-driving vehicle route planning system detects and transforms environment information of a host vehicle into an aerial view including the coordinate information of coordinate points to recognize and mark traffic lane boundaries, traffic lanes, and other vehicles therein, calculates central points of the traffic lanes, and then, calculates a speed of a front vehicle according to its positions and works out a predicted route thereof. If the predicted route is the same as a driving route of the host vehicle, the front vehicle is used as a route reference point to calculate a final route of the host vehicle; if not, the traffic lane boundary is used as a route reference line to calculate the final route. The invention can plan the route merely using a point cloud data, greatly reducing the cost HD map information and storage space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: Automotive Research & Testing Center
    Inventors: JI-FAN YANG, Tsung-Ming Hsu, Shou-Ti Cheng
  • Publication number: 20240177088
    Abstract: A deciding system for stopping and dispatching vehicles includes a memory and a cloud processing unit. The cloud processing unit is configured to determine one of a fixed vehicle dispatching algorithm and a non-fixed vehicle dispatching algorithm to be executed by the cloud processing unit according to a temporary car-hailing order message; execute the one of the fixed vehicle dispatching algorithm and the non-fixed vehicle dispatching algorithm to generate a stop message corresponding to a stop station according to a dispatch parameter set from the memory, and generate a stop number set corresponding to the first vehicle according to the stop message; and execute the one of the fixed vehicle dispatching algorithm and the non-fixed vehicle dispatching algorithm to generate a dispatch message according to the dispatch parameter set, and generate a dispatch vehicle number set corresponding to the second vehicle according to the dispatch message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: I-Chun KUO, Cheng-Hsien WANG, Tsung-Ming HSU, Ming-Kuan KO
  • Patent number: 11900816
    Abstract: A vehicle platoon following deciding system based on cloud computing is configured to decide a plurality of vehicle platoon accelerations of a leading vehicle and at least one following vehicle. A cloud processing unit receives a leading vehicle parameter group and at least one following vehicle parameter group. The cloud processing unit is configured to implement a cloud deciding step. The cloud deciding step includes judging whether the leading vehicle is manually driven according to the leading vehicle parameter group to generate a driving mode judging result, calculating a driving acceleration range according to a leading vehicle acceleration range and at least one following vehicle acceleration range, estimating a compensated acceleration according to the leading vehicle parameter group, and calculating the vehicle platoon accelerations according to the driving mode judging result and at least one of the driving acceleration range and the compensated acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Automotive Research & Testing Center
    Inventors: Hsiang Chieh Hsu, Tsung-Ming Hsu
  • Publication number: 20230169871
    Abstract: An allochronic obstacle avoidance system for platooning is configured to decide an obstacle avoidance of a leading vehicle and at least one following vehicle. A sensing device is configured to generate an obstacle position and an obstacle speed. A leading vehicle processing unit is configured to transmit a leading vehicle parameter group. At least one following vehicle processing unit is configured to transmit at least one following vehicle parameter group. A cloud processing unit is configured to implement a cloud deciding step including predicting a leading vehicle free space and at least one following vehicle free space according to the leading vehicle parameter group and the at least one following vehicle parameter group, and deciding the obstacle avoidance of the leading vehicle and the at least one following vehicle according to the leading vehicle free space and the at least one following vehicle free space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien WANG, Tsung-Ming HSU, Ming-Kuan KO, Zhi-Hao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230169870
    Abstract: A vehicle platoon following deciding system based on cloud computing is configured to decide a plurality of vehicle platoon accelerations of a leading vehicle and at least one following vehicle. A cloud processing unit receives a leading vehicle parameter group and at least one following vehicle parameter group. The cloud processing unit is configured to implement a cloud deciding step. The cloud deciding step includes judging whether the leading vehicle is manually driven according to the leading vehicle parameter group to generate a driving mode judging result, calculating a driving acceleration range according to a leading vehicle acceleration range and at least one following vehicle acceleration range, estimating a compensated acceleration according to the leading vehicle parameter group, and calculating the vehicle platoon accelerations according to the driving mode judging result and at least one of the driving acceleration range and the compensated acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Hsiang Chieh HSU, Tsung-Ming HSU
  • Patent number: 11604473
    Abstract: A dynamic velocity planning method for an autonomous vehicle is performed to plan a best velocity curve of the autonomous vehicle. An information storing step is performed to store an obstacle information, a road information and a vehicle information. An acceleration limit calculating step is performed to calculate the vehicle information according to a calculating procedure to generate an acceleration limit value range. An acceleration combination generating step is performed to generate a plurality of acceleration combinations according to the obstacle information, the road information, and the acceleration limit value range. An acceleration filtering step is performed to filter the acceleration combinations according to a jerk threshold and a jerk switching frequency threshold to obtain a selected acceleration combination. An acceleration smoothing step is performed to execute a driving behavior procedure to adjust the selected acceleration combination to generate the best velocity curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Automotive Research & Testing Center
    Inventors: Zhi-Hao Zhang, Tsung-Ming Hsu, Bo-Han Lin
  • Patent number: 11572082
    Abstract: A driving risk assessment and control decision-making method for an autonomous vehicle includes: detecting the surrounding state of the vehicle multiple times to generate multiple sensing signals; quantifying the sensing signals to generate multiple sensing values and calculating a sensing average value of the sensing values; calculating a sensing error value between each sensing value and the sensing average value, a sensing error average value of sensing error values and a sensing error variation value; integrating the sensing error average value, the sensing error variation value and a sensor systematic error average value and a sensor systematic error variation value to generate a sensing signal correction value; combining the sensing values and the sensing signal correction value to generate multiple sensing signal reference values; judging whether a stability of the sensing signal reference values falls within a preset range; generating a control mechanism based on the judgement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTER
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien Wang, Tsung-Ming Hsu, Hsiang-Chieh Hsu
  • Patent number: 11472435
    Abstract: A trajectory determination method for a vehicle is provided. A target vehicle trajectory is determined from among multiple candidate vehicle trajectories by considering, for each of the candidate vehicle trajectories, presence or absence of a front obstacle, presence or absence of a potentially-colliding obstacle, and a condition related to lane change, so as to enhance driving safety of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTER
    Inventors: Yu-Ting Lin, Tsung-Ming Hsu
  • Publication number: 20220169281
    Abstract: A trajectory determination method for a vehicle is provided. A target vehicle trajectory is determined from among multiple candidate vehicle trajectories by considering, for each of the candidate vehicle trajectories, presence or absence of a front obstacle, presence or absence of a potentially-colliding obstacle, and a condition related to lane change, so as to enhance driving safety of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Automotive Research & Testing Center
    Inventors: Yu-Ting LIN, Tsung-Ming HSU
  • Publication number: 20220163973
    Abstract: A dynamic velocity planning method for an autonomous vehicle is performed to plan a best velocity curve of the autonomous vehicle. An information storing step is performed to store an obstacle information, a road information and a vehicle information. An acceleration limit calculating step is performed to calculate the vehicle information according to a calculating procedure to generate an acceleration limit value range. An acceleration combination generating step is performed to generate a plurality of acceleration combinations according to the obstacle information, the road information, and the acceleration limit value range. An acceleration filtering step is performed to filter the acceleration combinations according to a jerk threshold and a jerk switching frequency threshold to obtain a selected acceleration combination. An acceleration smoothing step is performed to execute a driving behavior procedure to adjust the selected acceleration combination to generate the best velocity curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Zhi-Hao ZHANG, Tsung-Ming HSU, Bo-Han LIN
  • Publication number: 20220126869
    Abstract: A driving risk assessment and control decision-making method for an autonomous vehicle includes: detecting the surrounding state of the vehicle multiple times to generate multiple sensing signals; quantifying the sensing signals to generate multiple sensing values and calculating a sensing average value of the sensing values; calculating a sensing error value between each sensing value and the sensing average value, a sensing error average value of sensing error values and a sensing error variation value; integrating the sensing error average value, the sensing error variation value and a sensor systematic error average value and a sensor systematic error variation value to generate a sensing signal correction value; combining the sensing values and the sensing signal correction value to generate multiple sensing signal reference values; judging whether a stability of the sensing signal reference values falls within a preset range; generating a control mechanism based on the judgement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien WANG, Tsung-Ming HSU, Hsiang-Chieh HSU
  • Publication number: 20220121213
    Abstract: A hybrid planning method in an autonomous vehicle is performed to plan a best trajectory function of a host vehicle. A parameter obtaining step is performed to sense a surrounding scenario of the host vehicle to obtain a parameter group to be learned. A learning-based scenario deciding step is performed to receive the parameter group to be learned and decide one of a plurality of scenario categories that matches the surrounding scenario of the host vehicle according to the parameter group to be learned and a learning-based model. A learning-based parameter optimizing step is performed to execute the learning-based model with the parameter group to be learned to generate a key parameter group. A rule-based trajectory planning step is performed to execute a rule-based model with the one of the scenario categories and the key parameter group to plan the best trajectory function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Tsung-Ming HSU, Yu-Rui CHEN, Cheng-Hsien WANG, Zhi-Hao ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11285944
    Abstract: An automatic driving method and device able to diagnose decisions is disclosed herein, wherein a vehicle body signal sensor detects vehicle body information, and an environment sensor detects traffic environment information. The information is transmitted to a central processor to generate a future driving track. The central processor examines whether the differences between the future driving track and the traffic environment information and the indexes of the future driving track meet tolerances. If no, the central processor transmits notification information to an automatic driving controller. If yes, the central processor transmits the future driving track to the automatic driving controller to make the automatic driving controller undertake automatic driving according to the future driving track. The present invention can automatically judge whether the future driving track generated by the central processor is within tolerances and determine whether the automatic driving track is safe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Automotive Research & Testing Center
    Inventors: Tsung-Ming Hsu, Yu-Rui Chen, Cheng-Hsien Wang
  • Patent number: 11279350
    Abstract: A method of adaptive trajectory generation for a vehicle is provided. A computer device of the vehicle may update a current trajectory for the vehicle when some predetermined conditions that are related to an obstacle positioned within a predetermined distance of the vehicle are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Automotive Research & Testing Center
    Inventors: Chien-Feng Wu, Bo-Han Lin, Tsung-Ming Hsu, Ming-Kuan Ko
  • Patent number: 11127298
    Abstract: An intersection speed deciding method includes a dataset obtaining and calculating step and a speed adjusting step. At least one of the vehicles expected to pass through one of the points is defined as the approaching vehicle, and a first arrival time of the approaching vehicle is obtained. Whether a preceding vehicle is on the host route is judged. If yes, a second arrival time of the preceding vehicle is obtained. Whether the host vehicle is expected to wait for a red light is judged. If yes, a red light duration is obtained. A time difference exists between a best arrival time and a corresponding expected arrival time, and each time difference is minimized based on the first arrival time, the second arrival time and the red time duration. A speed of the host vehicle is adjusted or remained based on the expected arrival times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Automotive Research & Testing Center
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien Wang, Tsung-Ming Hsu, Yu-Rui Chen
  • Patent number: 11104336
    Abstract: A method for planning a trajectory for a self-driving vehicle on a road includes: generating multiple target planned trajectory sets based on information concerning the self-driving vehicle; calculating multiple projected moving ranges and multiple projected moving speeds of an obstacle based on information concerning the obstacle, the projected moving ranges corresponding respectively with multiple time points in a driving time period, the projected moving speeds corresponding respectively with the time points; and selecting one of the target planned trajectory sets as an optimal planned trajectory set based on the target planned trajectory sets, the projected moving ranges and the projected moving speeds for the obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTER
    Inventors: Bo-Han Lin, Tsung-Ming Hsu, Zhi-Hao Zhang, I-Chun Kuo
  • Publication number: 20210197804
    Abstract: A method of adaptive trajectory generation for a vehicle is provided. A computer device of the vehicle may update a current trajectory for the vehicle when some predetermined conditions that are related to an obstacle positioned within a predetermined distance of the vehicle are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Chien-Feng Wu, Bo-Han Lin, Tsung-Ming Hsu, Ming-Kuan Ko
  • Publication number: 20210142674
    Abstract: An intersection speed deciding method includes a dataset obtaining and calculating step and a speed adjusting step. At least one of the vehicles expected to pass through one of the points is defined as the approaching vehicle, and a first arrival time of the approaching vehicle is obtained. Whether a preceding vehicle is on the host route is judged. If yes, a second arrival time of the preceding vehicle is obtained. Whether the host vehicle is expected to wait for a red light is judged. If yes, a red light duration is obtained. A time difference exists between a best arrival time and a corresponding expected arrival time, and each time difference is minimized based on the first arrival time, the second arrival time and the red time duration. A speed of the host vehicle is adjusted or remained based on the expected arrival times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien WANG, Tsung-Ming HSU, Yu-Rui CHEN