公开(公告)号：US11654932B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-23

申请号：US17135259

申请日：2020-12-28

Applicant: WAYMO LLC

Inventor： Diomidis Katzourakis ,  Andrew Barton-Sweeney ,  Rami Hindiyeh ,  Peter Greene ,  Vadim Butakov

IPC: B60W60/00 ,  G01C21/34 ,  G01C21/36 ,  G06V20/56

CPC classification number: B60W60/001 ,  G01C21/3461 ,  G01C21/3691 ,  G06V20/56 ,  B60W2520/105 ,  B60W2520/125 ,  B60W2552/20

Abstract: The technology employs a variable motion control envelope that enables an on-board computing system of a self-driving vehicle to estimate future vehicle driving behavior along an upcoming path, in order to maintain a desired amount of control during autonomous driving. Factors including intrinsic vehicle properties, extrinsic environmental influences and road friction information are evaluated. Such factors can be evaluated to derive an available acceleration model, which defines an envelope of maximum longitudinal and lateral accelerations for the vehicle. This model, which may identify dynamically varying acceleration limits that can be affected by road conditions and road configurations, may be used by the on-board control system (e.g., a planner module of the processing system) to control driving operations of the vehicle in an autonomous driving mode.