Abstract:
A method to generate an autonomous driving route of an autonomous vehicle includes: receiving an input image of a front view captured from the autonomous vehicle; calculating a gradient between the autonomous vehicle and a ground based on the input image; and generating the autonomous driving route based on the calculated gradient.
Abstract:
A system for and method of determining angular position (e.g. pitch) of a vehicle (100) is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment, a first angular rate of rotation (G X ,G Y ) of the vehicle about a first axis of rotation (X b , Y b ) is detected using a first angular rate sensor (102) mounted to the vehicle (100). A second angular rate of rotation (G Z ) of the vehicle (100) about a second axis of rotation (Z b ) is detected using a second angular rate sensor (104) mounted to the vehicle (100). The second axis of rotation (Z b ) is substantially orthogonal to the first axis of rotation (X b , Y b ). The angular position of the vehicle (100) is determined based on a ratio of the first angular rate of rotation (G X ,G Y ) of the vehicle (100) and the second angular rate of rotation (G Z ) of the vehicle (100).
Abstract:
A self-location calculating device of the present invention projects a patterned light onto a road surface around a vehicle, as well as thereby captures and obtains an image of the road surface around the vehicle. Furthermore, the self-location calculating device detects a running condition of the vehicle. When it is determined that the vehicle is a running stable state, the self-location calculating device calculates a current position and a current attitude angle of the vehicle by adding an amount of change in an attitude to a predetermined initial attitude angle of the vehicle.
Abstract:
In vehicular running apparatus and method, a yaw rate target deceleration calculated on a basis of a yaw rate and a preset lateral acceleration set value is compared with a navigation target deceleration calculated on a basis of a target vehicle speed calculated on a basis of a state of a curved road located in front of a running road on which the vehicle is running and the preset lateral acceleration to select a target deceleration from one of the yaw rate and navigation target decelerations which is lower than the other and a target vehicle speed command value is calculated on a basis of the selected target deceleration, the calculated vehicle speed command value being outputted to decelerating means of the vehicle.
Abstract:
Computing sections (31, 32) compute an average front-wheel speed VwF=(VwFL+VwFR)/2 and an average rear wheel speed VwR=(VwRL+VwRR)/2, and then the resulting values (VwF and VwR) are passed through band-pass filtering sections (33, 34) to extract only a component near a vehicle body resonance frequency, respectively, thus acquiring a vibration component (fVwF) of the front wheel speed (VwF) near the vehicle body resonance frequency and a vibration component (fVwR) of the rear wheel speed (VwR) near the vehicle body resonance frequency, the vibration components being representative of a vehicle body vibration. Computing sections (35, 36) are adapted to determine, from the resulting values (fVwF and fVwR), a back-and-forth displacement (Xtf) of the front wheels and a back-and-forth displacement (Xtr) of the rear wheels, the dis placements being representative of the vehicle body vibration; to determine, from the resulting values (Xtf and Xtr), the up-and-down dis placement of a portion above a front axle and the up-and-down displacement of a portion above a rear axle, the up-and-down displacements being caused by the vehicle body vibration, on the basis of the inherent relations between the back-and-forth displacement and the up-and-down displacement of the front wheels and the rear wheels, the relations being determined by the geometry of a suspension; to estimate the vehicle body vibration (an up-and-down bounce speed (dZv) and a pitch angular velocity (d8p)) from the front and rear up-and-down displacements of the vehicle body; and to determine an amount of driving and braking force compensation (L'i Td) which is necessary to alleviate the vehicle body vibration.