Patents Issued in May 2, 2024
  • Publication number: 20240140437
    Abstract: A method of self-localizing with respect to surrounding objects, comprising obtaining an approximated geolocation of the vehicle, retrieving mapping data comprising a geolocation of one or more stationary objects located in an area surrounding the approximated geolocation, receiving imagery data of a surrounding environment of the vehicle captured by a plurality of distinct imaging sensors deployed in the vehicle, applying one or more trained machine learning models to identify one or more of the stationary objects in the imagery data, computing a relative positioning of the vehicle with respect to one or more of the stationary objects based on an orientation of each of the plurality of imaging sensors with respect to the stationary object(s), computing an absolute positioning of the vehicle based on the relative positioning and the geolocation of the stationary object(s), and outputting the vehicle's absolute positioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Yaacov HOCH, Daniel BOLGAR, Yoav BADIKHI, Tsvi LEV
  • Publication number: 20240140438
    Abstract: Method for perception blockage prediction and supervision for performing information cloud localization in an ego vehicle based on an information cloud map and a sensor information cloud generated based on sensor information provided by at least one environment sensor of the ego vehicle. The method comprises perceiving a surrounding of the ego vehicle. The method comprises detecting and localizing at least one object in the surrounding of the ego vehicle, which is not contained in the information cloud map. The method comprises determining a future obstruction of at least one part of the information cloud map for the at least one environment sensor of the ego vehicle based on the localization of the at least one object detected in the surrounding of the ego vehicle. The method comprises generating a warning in case the future obstruction of the at least one part of the information cloud map has been determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: VALEO NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas HEITZMANN, Romain DEMARETS
  • Publication number: 20240140439
    Abstract: A travel support device includes processing circuitry configured to output a target speed of a merging vehicle that is going to change lanes; acquire a current speed of the merging vehicle and calculate a first control amount; acquire a position and a speed of a merging destination vehicle; acquire a current position of the merging vehicle and calculate a second control amount; acquire a speed of the merging vehicle and calculate a predicted position of the merging destination vehicle when the current speed of the merging vehicle has reached the target speed; and output one of the first or second control amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro NISHIWAKI
  • Publication number: 20240140440
    Abstract: A motor vehicle comprising a body defining a passenger compartment, a plurality of wheels; and a sensor designed to detect a parameter associated with a superficial condition of a road surface; the sensor comprises, in turn, an emitter configured to emit a first laser signal towards a road surface; and one or more single-photon avalanche diodes configured to detect a second laser signal corresponding to the reflection of the first laser signal against said road surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Giovanni SARTONI, Matteo MONTIROSI, Ugo SITTA
  • Publication number: 20240140441
    Abstract: A method for determining a classification of a condition of a road surface for vehicle traffic includes: defining a reference surface of the road surface ahead; illuminating the reference surface with a light source on the vehicle; detecting light reflected off the reference surface; and determining classification of the condition of the road surface by analyzing detected information related to the reference surface. Furthermore, the method includes: illuminating the reference surface using laser or LED light; providing image information for the reference surface by detecting the reflected light with a Lidar unit; providing further image information for the reference surface by scanning the reference surface using an RGB sensor; and classifying the road surface by combining image information from the Lidar unit and the RGB sensor. The disclosure also relates to an arrangement for determining a classification of a condition of a road surface for vehicle traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Johan CASSELGREN
  • Publication number: 20240140442
    Abstract: The navigation system of the present disclosure is configured to receive a short command from a vehicle occupant and extrapolate relevant details associated with the command using an artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) algorithm. These relevant details may be obtained from a mobile device associated with the occupant and in communication with the navigation system, an external database in communication with the navigation system, etc. Communication links may be wired, wireless through the cloud, near field, etc. Further, each occupant's identity may be determined via near field key fob recognition, microphone voice recognition, camera facial recognition, or via the detection of the mobile device associated with the occupant. Levels of complexity may be added, with multiple occupants being identified and issuing different commands, multiple external information sources subsequently being consulted, and multiple sub-routes to multiple destinations being planned and followed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Klas Roland Persson Signell, Egoi Sanchez Basualdo, Konstantinos Chatziioannou
  • Publication number: 20240140443
    Abstract: A device for determining driver alertness includes a gas sensor for continuously monitoring a driver's exhalations and/or volatile organic compounds emitted from the skin, and an analyzer for extracting at least one volatile biomarker in the exhalations and/or the emitted volatile organic compounds, wherein the biomarker is isoprene, and wherein the analyzer is configured to determine the isoprene concentration over the course of a predefined time period to obtain an isoprene concentration profile, determine peaks in the isoprene concentration profile, such that the alertness of the driver can be determined on the basis of the number of peaks within the predefined time period, and/or determine the driver's alertness on the basis of a frequency analysis of isoprene concentrations within the predefined time period, and/or determine the driver's alertness on the basis of random distributions of isoprene concentrations within the predefined time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Julian King, Rene Seidemann
  • Publication number: 20240140444
    Abstract: A motor vehicle comprising a body defining a passenger compartment, a plurality of wheels; and a first sensor designed to detect a value associated with a driving speed of said motor vehicle; the first sensor comprises, in turn: a first emitter configured to emit a first laser signal; one or more first single-photon avalanche diodes configured to detect said first laser signal or a second laser signal generated, in use, by the reflection of the first laser signal; and a control unit programmed to process the value associated with a driving speed of the motor vehicle, based on the first or second laser signal detected, in use, by the first photodetectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Giovanni SARTONI, Matteo MONTIROSI, Ugo SITTA
  • Publication number: 20240140445
    Abstract: A method includes receiving sensed vehicle-state data, actuation-command data, and surface-coefficient data from a plurality of remote vehicles, inputting the sensed vehicle-state data, the actuation-command data, and the surface-coefficient data into a self-supervised recurrent neural network (RNN) to predict vehicle states of a host vehicle in a plurality of driving scenarios, and commanding the host vehicle to move autonomously according to a trajectory determined using the vehicle states predicted using the self-supervised RNN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Shuqing Zeng, Yubiao Zhang, Bakhtiar B. Litkouhi
  • Publication number: 20240140446
    Abstract: A policy map is obtained that includes of prescribed machine settings values for controlling a machine to perform an operation at different locations in the field. Sensor signals indicating conditions that will be encountered by the machine in the future, as it moves through the site. A predictive model provides an expected machine response, based upon the a future condition and a prescribed machine setting value. Adjusted machine setting value is generated based on the expected machine response. Control signals are generated, based on the adjusted machine setting value, to control a set of controllable subsystems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Andy B. APPLETON, Nohoon KI, Wissam H. EL-RATAL, Rui ZHANG, Justin T. ROTH
  • Publication number: 20240140447
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method for controlling a redundant steering system. The apparatus includes: a first steering position controller configured to control a first MDPS module based on a first command steering angle from an autonomous driving system and a current steering angle; a second steering position controller configured to control a second MDPS module based on a second command steering angle from the autonomous driving system and the current steering angle; an internal communication interface configured to enable a communication between the first steering position controller and the second steering position controller; and a processor configured to calculate final output information including the current steering angle based on first information output from the first MDPS module and second information output from the second MDPS module, and to apply the final output information to the first steering position controller and the second steering position controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tae Hong KIM
  • Publication number: 20240140448
    Abstract: An electronic control device 140 is mounted on an on-vehicle control system 10 that performs travel control of an automobile, and is communicatively connected to a plurality of control devices including a first control device (electronic control device 120) and a second control device (electronic control device 130). The electronic control device 140 includes an attack determination unit 145 that determines presence or absence of a security attack in each control device, and a redundant system execution determination unit 146 that determines whether to cause the second control device to execute a redundant function similar to or a part of the function performed by the first control device based on the result of determination by the attack determination unit 145.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Momoka KASUYA, Hiroki YAMAZAKI, Mikio KATAOKA, Nobuyoshi MORITA, Kota IDEGUCHI, Yasuhiro FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240140449
    Abstract: A system for planning motion of a vehicle includes a controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded. The vehicle is capable of an automated driving operation. A planning module is executable by the controller to generate a vehicle trajectory constrained by a set of planning parameters. During a degraded driving situation, an adjustment module is executable by the controller to generate at least one adjusted parameter in the set of planning parameters. The controller is adapted to register occurrence of the degraded driving situation when the planning module is unable to generate a feasible path for the vehicle constrained by the set of planning parameters. The planning module is adapted to generate a modified trajectory plan based on the at least one adjusted parameter, with the automated driving operation being based on the modified trajectory plan during the degraded driving situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Rasoul Salehi, Sayyed Rouhollah Jafari Tafti
  • Publication number: 20240140450
    Abstract: A First sensor unit is operable when supplied with electric power from a first power supply unit to detect a front obstacle in front of a vehicle and to detect lateral position information on a position of the vehicle in a road width direction. A first control device is operable when supplied with electric power from the first power supply unit to control the vehicle based on a detection result of the first sensor unit. A second sensor unit is operable when supplied with electric power from a second power supply unit to detect the front obstacle and to detect the lateral position information. A second control device is operable when supplied with electric power from the second power supply unit to control the vehicle based on a detection result of the second sensor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: NORIAKI ICHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240140451
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a VP, the VP including a specific system, an ADK attachable to and removable from the VP, the ADK giving an instruction for autonomous driving, a main communication bus, a sub communication bus, a main VCIB configured to communicate with the ADK through the main communication bus, the main VCIB giving a control instruction to the specific system in accordance with an instruction from the ADK, and a sub VCIB configured to communicate with the ADK through the sub communication bus, the sub VCIB giving a control instruction to the specific system in accordance with an instruction from the ADK. When the VP has a malfunction, the main VCIB outputs to the ADK, information for identification that allows identification of a capability value of the specific system (S214), whereas the sub VCIB outputs the information for identification to the ADK (S214).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuma SUZUKI, Mitsuhiro MIURA
  • Publication number: 20240140452
    Abstract: A controller may generate a packet, and send the packet to an electronic control unit. The packet includes a plurality of bits and control information. The plurality of bits may indicate whether the electronic control unit controls a plurality of objects (for example, actuators or functions) based on the control information. The plurality of bits are in a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of objects. In this way, the electronic control unit associated with the plurality of objects can control the plurality of objects based on the control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Tao MA, Yao CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240140453
    Abstract: A system for refining a trained autonomous control model is disclosed. The system includes a computing device configured to execute a simulation of a trained autonomous control model for a vehicle model in a simulation environment based on a predefined dataset defining a virtual driving environment and implement a fallback layer configured to detect a failure. In response to the fallback layer detecting the failure of the trained autonomous control model under simulation, the computing device is configured to identify an event in the simulation environment corresponding to the failure of the trained autonomous control model, select additional training data from a data corpus, the additional training data is analogous to the event, and execute a training process to refine the trained autonomous control model using the additional training data such that the trained autonomous control model learns to handle the event with fewer failures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Woven by Toyota, Inc.
    Inventor: Jasper FRIEDRICHS
  • Publication number: 20240140454
    Abstract: An on-vehicle system includes: a control device; a monitoring device that monitors whether each of a plurality of occupants in a vehicle has grasped a behavior of the vehicle; and a storage device that stores a learned model for feeling estimation. Further, the control device determines whether there is an occupant who has not grasped a behavior of the vehicle among the plurality of occupants based on a monitoring result of the monitoring device, specifies a target occupant whose feeling is to be estimated from the plurality of occupants based on the determination result, estimates feeling of the target occupant who has been specified by using the learned model, and executes vehicle control in accordance with a result of estimating the feeling of the target occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kaneko, Shigeki Nakayama, Kotoru Sato
  • Publication number: 20240140455
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a data set including a requested acceleration as information representing movement of a vehicle in a front-rear direction and any one of a steering angle, a yaw rate, and a rotation radius as information representing movement of the vehicle in a lateral direction from each of a plurality of applications, an arbitration unit configured to perform arbitration of information representing the movement of the vehicle in the front-rear direction and arbitration of information representing the movement of the vehicle in the lateral direction based on a plurality of the data sets received by the receiver, and a first output unit configured to output instruction information for driving an actuator based on an arbitration result of the arbitration unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuma SUZUKI, Wataru KANDA, Kaiji ITABASHI, Yoshihisa YAMADA, Kazuki MIYAKE, Tamotsu KONDOH
  • Publication number: 20240140456
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing performance of a vehicle are described. The methods and systems may compare present vehicle performance to one of a plurality of predetermined performance levels to control the vehicle's present level of performance. The methods and systems may correct torque output of a propulsion source according to the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Abhijeet BHOPTE, Gordon PETERSON
  • Publication number: 20240140457
    Abstract: Implementations relate to enabling of authorization of certain automated assistant functions via one or more modalities available within a vehicle. Implementations can eliminate wasting of computational and communication resources by at least allowing other users to authorize execution of certain input commands from a user, without requesting the user to re-submit the commands. The vehicle can include a computing device that provides access to restricted data, which can be accessed in order for an action to be performed by the automated assistant. However, when a restricted user requests that the automated assistant perform an action involving accessing the restricted data, the automated assistant can be authorized or unauthorized to proceed with fulfilling the request via a modality controlled by an unrestricted user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Moises Morgenstern Gali
  • Publication number: 20240140458
    Abstract: Among other things, a vehicle drives autonomously on a trajectory through a road network to a goal location based on an automatic process for planning the trajectory without human intervention; and an automatic process alters the planning of the trajectory to reach a target location based on a request received from an occupant of the vehicle to engage in a speed-reducing maneuver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Harshavardhan Ravichandran, Karl Iagnemma, Eric Wolff
  • Publication number: 20240140459
    Abstract: Systems/techniques that facilitate peer-to-peer vehicular provision of artificially intelligent traffic analysis are provided. In various embodiments, a system can be onboard a first vehicle. In various aspects, the system can capture, via one or more cameras, one or more microphones, or one or more other sensors of the first vehicle, roadside data associated with a road on which the first vehicle is traveling. In various instances, the system can execute a deep learning neural network on the roadside data, wherein the deep learning neural network can produce as output a classification label, a bounding box, or a pixel-wise segmentation mask localizing an unsafe driving condition along the road. In various cases, the system can transmit, via a peer-to-peer communication link to a second vehicle traveling on the road, an electronic alert based on the unsafe driving condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas Martin Viktor Ropel, Martin Arvid Hubert Krampell, Robert Gunnar Eriksson, Arsam Golriz
  • Publication number: 20240140460
    Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a frame and a plurality of ground-engaging members supporting the frame. Each of the plurality of ground-engaging members is configured to rotate about an axle. The utility vehicle further includes a powertrain assembly supported by the frame and a braking system configured to operate in a normal run mode and an anti-lock braking mode. The braking system includes an anti-lock braking control module operably coupled to the plurality of ground-engaging members and configured to automatically engage the anti-lock braking mode in response to a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Harry Pongo, Brian E. Brandt, Joshua T. Weed, Agata Kaleta, Jacob J. Minick, Ryan D. Kincade
  • Publication number: 20240140461
    Abstract: A method for preventing an unintentional start of a work-performing machine, wherein the work-performing machine includes an electric machine for propelling the work-performing machine, the method including checking whether there is a driving request from a driver of the work-performing machine and detecting information relating to an operating mode of the electric machine. The method further includes determining, based on the checking in relation to the driving request and the detected operating mode of the electric machine, whether the electric machine is in a safety-critical state and, if it is determined that the electric machine is in the safety-critical state, sending a signal to the electric machine to transition the electric machine to a state not suitable for propulsion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas Rothmund, Matthias Madlener, Andreas Moosmüller, Guilherme Ariello
  • Publication number: 20240140462
    Abstract: A system for mitigating glare from at least one light source while driving a vehicle. The system includes determining an occurrence of a glare condition based on, at least in part, a visible light video stream generated by a visible light sensor. Upon determining the occurrence of the glare condition, indicia are presented at the vehicle display to assist in navigation of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Bennie, David Hiskens, Collin Hurley, Mark Gehrke, Jonathan Diedrich
  • Publication number: 20240140463
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of providing driving information of an autonomous vehicle performed by an apparatus that includes a first sensor unit, a second sensor unit, a processor, and a projection unit. The method includes: acquiring, by the first sensor unit, surroundings information of the autonomous vehicle; acquiring, by the second sensor unit, information on an occupant on board the autonomous vehicle; generating, by the processor, main driving information from the surroundings information of the autonomous vehicle acquired by the first sensor unit; determining, by the processor, the main driving information to be provided to the occupant from among the main driving information based on the information on the occupant; and providing, by the projection unit, the main driving information determined by the processor to the occupant of the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jung Seok Suh, Hae Seong Jeong, Mi Jin Chung, Ja Yoon Goo, Hong Gyu Lee
  • Publication number: 20240140464
    Abstract: A control device is configured to control a light emitter installed in a steering device of a vehicle capable of traveling with a manual driving mode and a self-driving mode. A reception interface is configured to receive a first transition information relating to a transition from a manual driving mode to a self-driving mode in the vehicle, and a second transition information related to a transition from the self-driving mode to the manual driving mode in the vehicle. A processor is configured to cause, based on the first transition information, the light emitter to emit light in a first manner, and to cause, based on the second transition information, the light emitter to emit light in a second manner different from the first manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Masaki HYODO
  • Publication number: 20240140465
    Abstract: This driving assistance device comprises: an inter-vehicle distance detection unit which detects an inter-vehicle distance from an own vehicle to a preceding vehicle; an overlap detection unit which detects an overlap (a collision avoidance width) of the own vehicle and the preceding vehicle; and an alarm control unit which controls an alarm output from an information output unit on the basis of the inter-vehicle distance and a change in the overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Wasantha OSHITA, Satoshi HAYASHI, Masaichi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240140466
    Abstract: A control device includes: a controller controlling a first vehicle, the controller being configured to estimate a degree of concentration of a driver in the first vehicle during traveling of the first vehicle based on a first distance between the first vehicle and a second vehicle traveling in front of the first vehicle, a second distance between the first vehicle and a third vehicle traveling behind the first vehicle, and a relationship between a vehicle speed of the first vehicle and a predetermined vehicle speed, and execute a vehicle control of recovering the concentration of the driver based on an estimation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi OYAGI, Hirokazu ITO, Shinya SHIRATORI, Norimi ASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20240140467
    Abstract: A cabin management apparatus according to the present disclosure is a cabin management apparatus configured to manage a cabin of a vehicle, the cabin management apparatus including an acquisition interface, a communication interface, an output interface, and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to acquire, by the acquisition interface, passenger information including a characteristic and/or a boarding position of a passenger in the cabin, receive, by the communication interface, travel event information regarding a travel event that can occur during travel of the vehicle, and provide, by the output interface based on the travel event information, a notification that is different depending on the passenger information, in the cabin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Tomoyuki KOZUKA
  • Publication number: 20240140468
    Abstract: A driving assistance device of an embodiment includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a mobile object, a determiner configured to determine, on the basis of the surrounding situation, whether to prompt a driver of the mobile object to perform a steering operation and whether there is a possibility of a risk occurring for the mobile object, and a notification controller configured to cause a speaker to output a guidance sound prompting the driver of the mobile object to perform a steering operation and a warning sound with respect to the risk on the basis of a result of the determination by the determiner, in which the notification controller causes output modes for the guidance sound and the warning sound to be different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Aya Miura, Yuji Yasui, Takeru Goto, Kosuke Toda, Keming Ding, Kenjiro Torii
  • Publication number: 20240140469
    Abstract: A driving assistance device includes: an object detecting part that detects an object behind and/or to the left and/or right rear of a host vehicle; an area setting part that sets a warning area behind and/or to the left or right rear of the host vehicle; a notification part that issues a notification when an object is detected within the warning area by the object detecting part; and an area changing part that calculates, based on a variation in curvature of a traveling trajectory of the host vehicle, an area reliable distance defining an area with high reliability, based on the area reliable distance, sets a reference position, and based on a lateral line extending in a turning radius direction of the host vehicle at the reference position, changes a rear end of the warning area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Naotsugu SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240140470
    Abstract: A control device includes: an external environment recognition unit configured to acquire recognition data of an external environment; an automatic driving control unit configured to perform automatic driving control; a storage unit configured to store target position information; and a target position detection unit configured to detect a target position. When the target position is detected, the automatic driving control unit executes first determination processing of determining whether a self-position of the moving body with respect to the target position is estimated, executes, when the self-position is estimated, second determination processing of determining whether a target not included in the target position information is present around the target position, issues, when the target is present, a notification inquiring of a user of the moving body necessity of executing the automatic driving control, and executes, when the target is not present, the automatic driving control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke OKA, Shun Iwasaki, Shota Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20240140471
    Abstract: The vehicle includes a direction indicator, an operation unit configured to receive an operation for changing a state of the direction indicator, a setting unit configured to set a feedback mode of the operation unit provided to a driver of the vehicle, and a detection unit configured to detect an obstacle included in a specific range around the vehicle. The setting unit is configured to set the feedback mode of the operation unit to a first feedback mode in a case where the obstacle is detected in the specific range, and set the feedback mode of the operation unit to a second feedback mode different from the first feedback mode in a case where the obstacle is not detected in the specific range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi SADAMURA, Yugo KAJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20240140472
    Abstract: Decision-making for a vehicle uses a data determining interface between perception and decision-making. The interface receives, from at least two data sources, operational environment data representing objects external to the vehicle while the vehicle is traversing a vehicle transportation network. The operational environment data is modified to determine output data for data types needed to determine a candidate vehicle control action responsive to the distinct vehicle operation scenario identified using the operational environment data. The solution is the same candidate vehicle control action for the same conditions regardless of the data types available from the data sources. That is, even where different data sources are available, consistent output is provided to a decision-making system. Consistent decision-making results whether the vehicle has a high-definition map, a standard-definition map, or no map as a data source, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Luis Lorenzo Bill Clark, Kyle Hollins Wray, David Ilstrup, Stefan Witwicki
  • Publication number: 20240140473
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides solutions for optimizing a hardware configuration of an autonomous vehicle (AV) using continuous learning machine. Processes of the disclosed technology can include steps for collecting AV sensor data, receiving hardware profile data relating to the AV sensor data, wherein the hardware profile data describes a hardware configuration of an AV, and providing the AV sensor data and the hardware profile data to a continuous learning machine model of an AV stack. The process can further include receiving an output of the continuous learning machine model based on the AV sensor data and the hardware profile data and determining an updated hardware configuration to replace the hardware configuration based on the output of the continuous learning machine model. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Burkay Donderici
  • Publication number: 20240140474
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates a method and apparatus for determining a path of an autonomous driving vehicle considering a communication network load. The method may include: (a) a step of transmitting global path information of all paths from a start point to a destination of a vehicle and vehicle identification (ID) information to a control server; (b) a step of receiving arrival time estimation information of the vehicle at at least one node on the all paths and wireless resource use rate information of at least one vehicle including the vehicle at each of the at least one node from the control server; (c) a step of determining a final movement path of the vehicle of the all paths on the basis of the arrival time estimation information and the wireless resource use rate; and (c) a step of performing autonomous driving along the determined final movement path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, KOREA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TRANSPORTATION
    Inventor: Cheol MUN
  • Publication number: 20240140475
    Abstract: A method for determining a lane centerline includes detecting a remote vehicle ahead of a host vehicle includes determining a trajectory of the remote vehicle that is ahead of the host vehicle, extracting features of the trajectory of the remote vehicle that is ahead of the host vehicle to generate a trajectory feature vector, and classifying the trajectory of the remote vehicle that is ahead of the host vehicle using the trajectory feature vector to determine whether the trajectory of the remote vehicle includes a lane change. The method further includes determining a centerline of the current lane using the trajectory of the remote vehicle that does not include the lane change and commanding the host vehicle to move autonomously along the centerline of the current lane to maintain the host vehicle in the current lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Shuqing Zeng, Wei Tong, Heng Zhou, Upali P. Mudalige, Reza Zarringhalam
  • Publication number: 20240140476
    Abstract: An automated parking system for parking a vehicle within a parking slot includes a communication device and an automated parking device. The communication device includes a display that depicts a visual representation of the vehicle within the parking slot. The communication device also includes a human machine interface (HMI) that receives user input and, according to the user input, relocates the visual representation of the vehicle to a user selected location. The user selected location is transmitted and received by data busses of the automated parking device. The automated parking device has a sensor that determines the location of various sides of the parking slot in relation to the vehicle. The automated parking device further includes an electronic control module that determines a path from the vehicle to the user selected location. The electronic control module proceeds to autonomously maneuver the vehicle along the determined path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Mirian Rodriguez Romero, Ovidiu Buzdugan Romcea
  • Publication number: 20240140477
    Abstract: A processing system including a processor is configured to perform recognition-related processing related to recognition of a target movable body for a host movable body. The processor is configured to execute acquiring a recognition rate of recognizing a target movable body for each of a plurality of recognition models, and fusing recognition data by each of the plurality of recognition models according to a fusion rate based on a recognition score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: SHUN SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240140478
    Abstract: An information processing device configured to communicate with an external service provider includes a reception unit configured to receive a request regarding communication quality necessary for executing an external service from the external service provider, an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a predetermined database, information on the communication quality necessary for executing the external service based on the request received by the reception unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the information acquired by the acquisition unit to the external service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Toshiki SHINOHARA, Kanade KURIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240140479
    Abstract: An adverse weather operations system includes one or more sensors and a computing device that processes sensor data to assist a vehicle in planning a vehicle path. Weather metrics can be utilized to determine a perception model having the most accurate results for the conditions being encountered by the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Zachary David Asher, Nicholas Alan Goberville, Parth Kadav
  • Publication number: 20240140480
    Abstract: A radio detection and ranging (RADAR) sensor system for vehicles, such as autonomous vehicles, includes a first RADAR sensor configured to provide first RADAR data descriptive of an environment of a vehicle having a first antenna configured to output a first RADAR beam having a first azimuthal component over a first angular range and a second RADAR sensor configured to provide second RADAR data descriptive of the environment of the vehicle, the second RADAR sensor having a second antenna configured to output a second RADAR beam having a second azimuthal component that is narrower than the first azimuthal component of the first RADAR beam, wherein the second RADAR sensor is configured to sweep the second RADAR beam over a second angular range closer to a rear of the vehicle than a front of the vehicle to obtain the second RADAR data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Bo Li, Chunshu Li
  • Publication number: 20240140481
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for controlling a vehicle, in which geometric test data and driving dynamics test data are obtained on a test track. The test data are divided into clusters, and cluster-specific drive-dynamic data is defined for each cluster. Subsequently, the route to be driven is clustered and the vehicle is controlled in a route section in accordance with the specified drive-dynamic data of the respective cluster. Under such configurations, it may be ensured that the driver is supported as individually as possible when driving on unknown routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Jonas Kaste, Maximilian Templer, Sevsel Gamze Kabil
  • Publication number: 20240140482
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for selecting a portion of raw data to process based on an importance of an agent in the portion of the raw data. Raw autonomous vehicle (AV) data associated with the AV operating in an environment can be accessed. An agent in the environment can be classified as a significant agent based on a potential for the agent to interact with the AV in the environment. A subset of the raw AV data associated with a classification of the agent as the significant agent can be selected. processing of the subset of the raw AV data separate from the raw AV data excluded from the subset of the raw AV data can be facilitated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Chingiz Tairbekov, Logan Perreault, Kahye Song, Rizwan Chaudhry
  • Publication number: 20240140483
    Abstract: An object of the invention of the application is to provide an autonomous travelling mine vehicle that can suppress a decrease in work efficiency when dust is generated at a work site. Therefore, the autonomous travelling mine vehicle includes a surrounding monitoring sensor that measures a three-dimensional point cloud of a terrain profile around the vehicle body, and a travelling route setting device calculates an undetected area representing a terrain profile part that the surrounding monitoring sensor cannot measure, calculates an alternative route on which the vehicle body can travel without passing through the undetected area on the basis of the positional relationship between the undetected area and the vehicle body, and updates the scheduled route with the alternative route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Kimiyoshi MACHII, Shinichi UOTSU
  • Publication number: 20240140484
    Abstract: A method includes receiving sensed vehicle-state data, actuation-command data, and surface-coefficient data from a plurality of remote vehicles, inputting the sensed vehicle-state data, the actuation-command data, and the surface-coefficient data into a self-supervised recurrent neural network (RNN) to predict vehicle states of a host vehicle in a plurality of driving scenarios, and commanding the host vehicle to move autonomously according to a trajectory determined using the vehicle states predicted using the self-supervised RNN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Shuqing Zeng, Yubiao Zhang, Bakhtiar B. Litkouhi
  • Publication number: 20240140485
    Abstract: A representation of a first set of weights associated with a vehicle prior to a drive are received, the vehicle including a plurality of axles, a plurality of wheels attached to the plurality of axles, and a load. A warning is caused to be output in response to at least one weight from the first set of weights being outside a predetermined range. Longitudinal and lateral dynamics associated with the vehicle during the drive are determined. A second set of weights associated with at least one axle from the plurality of axles during the drive are determined. A determination is made if at least one remedial action should be performed based on the longitudinal dynamics, the lateral dynamics, and the second set of weights. In response to determining that the at least one remedial action should be performed, the at least one remedial action is caused to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Siva Bhargav Ravella, Xiaoyu Huang, Amit Kumar
  • Publication number: 20240140486
    Abstract: A method for closed-loop evaluation of path planning modules for a vehicle equipped with an Automated Driving System (ADS) is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a candidate path from each of a plurality of path planning modules of the ADS. The method further includes determining a fulfilment of convergence criteria by the obtained candidate paths by comparing the obtained candidate paths with each other and determining a level of convergence between the candidate paths. If the convergence criteria is fulfilled, one of the obtained candidate paths is selected and the vehicle is controlled so to execute the selected candidate path. If the convergence criteria is not fulfilled, determining an exposure need of each path planning module in view of a predicted scene or scenario in the surrounding environment of the vehicle that the vehicle is expected to be exposed to while executing any one of the obtained candidate paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Magnus GYLLENHAMMAR, Carl ZANDÉN, Majid KHORSAND VAKILZADEH