DRIVER'S VEHICLE SOUND PERCEPTION METHOD DURING AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20220210556A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-30

    申请号:US17236371

    申请日:2021-04-21

    发明人: Chong-Bae Park

    摘要: A driver's vehicle sound perception method during the autonomous traveling of a driver sound control system applied to an autonomous vehicle is provided. The method includes determining a mobile device and Bluetooth earphones held by a driver within a cabin, and setting the driver position and face direction for the driver, a driver relative distance for the individual controller, and the sound pressure and cycle of an alert for a failure situation of the individual controller by a DSM controller of the DSM system. The method confirms the utterance position of the alert for the driver by an AVNT controller of the AVNT system, and reproduces the failure situation of the individual controller by a vehicle speaker or the Bluetooth earphones to reproduce the vehicle alert through the left/right Bluetooth earphones in the driver's ears at the level of the autonomous Lv.4 freeing from the driving.

    VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20220204006A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-30

    申请号:US17560337

    申请日:2021-12-23

    摘要: Provided is a vehicle control device configured to: recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle; detect operation states of a plurality of external recognition sensors; determine a driving mode of the vehicle as any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode, a second driving mode, and a third driving mode; change the third driving mode to either one of the first driving mode and the second driving mode when determining that a failure has occurred in one of the plurality of external recognition sensors that implement: a function of causing the vehicle to follow a preceding vehicle; and a function of assisting the vehicle in keeping a lane; and change the third driving mode to the second driving mode when determining that degradation in performance has occurred in one of the plurality of external recognition sensors.

    Formal Verification for the Development and Real-Time Application of Autonomous Systems

    公开(公告)号:US20220204003A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-30

    申请号:US17609192

    申请日:2020-05-07

    申请人: Kontrol GmbH

    发明人: Michael Naderhirn

    摘要: One embodiment described herein relates to a method for supervising a dynamic system, for example a vehicle. The method includes receiving a system state sample and calculating, for a specific time instant, a reachable set of system states based on a current system state and a system model representing the dynamic system. The method further includes calculating a mathematical representation of a specific manifestation of a generic rule and calculating an allowed subset of system states based on the reachable set and the mathematical representation of the specific manifestation of the generic rule. Furthermore, the method includes testing whether the system state sample is within the allowed subset.

    ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION DEVICE, ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION METHOD, VEHICLE STATE ESTIMATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20220204002A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-30

    申请号:US17562074

    申请日:2021-12-27

    发明人: Tomoyuki HOSOYA

    摘要: In an abnormality determination device for determining presence or absence of an abnormality of a 6-axis inertial measurement sensor installed in a vehicle to detect a forward-backward acceleration, a lateral acceleration, a vertical acceleration, a roll rate, a pitch rate, and a yaw rate of the vehicle, the abnormality determination device includes: a 3-axis inertial measurement sensor that detects the forward-backward acceleration, the lateral acceleration, and the yaw rate; and an abnormality determination unit that determines presence or absence of an abnormality of the 6-axis inertial measurement sensor, wherein the abnormality determination unit determines the presence or absence of an abnormality of the 6-axis inertial measurement sensor by comparing the forward-backward acceleration, the lateral acceleration, and the yaw rate acquired by the 6-axis inertial measurement sensor with the forward-backward acceleration, the lateral acceleration, and the yaw rate acquired by the 3-axis inertial measurement sensor, respectively.

    Fault detection in an all-wheel-drive system

    公开(公告)号:US11371602B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US17158569

    申请日:2021-01-26

    摘要: An all-wheel-drive vehicle includes a primary drive axle, a secondary drive axle, and an all-wheel-drive powertrain configured to selectively power the primary and secondary axles. The powertrain includes a powerplant and a clutch that couples the powerplant to the secondary axle when engaged and that decouples the powerplant from the secondary axle when disengaged. A controller is programmed to disengage the clutch to disable all-wheel drive and propel the vehicle solely with the primary drive axle based on repeated occurrence of power output of the powertrain being less than a value.

    Parallel and failover autonomy systems

    公开(公告)号:US11370454B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US17015423

    申请日:2020-09-09

    申请人: Nuro, Inc.

    摘要: An autonomous vehicle is operated using a main autonomy system that analyzes data collected by a sensor system of the autonomous vehicle to determine a trajectory of travel of the autonomous vehicle, and wherein the main autonomy system provides instructions to a propulsion system of the autonomous vehicle to cause the propulsion system to navigate the autonomous vehicle according to the trajectory. In response to determining that navigating the autonomous vehicle according to the trajectory is likely to result in collision, instructions are provided from a parallel autonomy system to the propulsion system to cause the autonomous vehicle to avoid collision. In response to detecting a fault in the main autonomy system, control of the propulsion system is provided from the main autonomy system to a failover autonomy system, wherein the failover autonomy system is configured to override the propulsion system.

    AGRICULTURAL MACHINE, AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AGRICULTURAL MACHINE

    公开(公告)号:US20220192075A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-23

    申请号:US17558028

    申请日:2021-12-21

    摘要: An agricultural machine includes one or more tires, a detector to detect a low pressure state in which a pressure of one of the tires is lower than a reference range or a high pressure state in which the tire pressure is higher than the reference range, and a controller to control an operation of at least one of the agricultural machine and an additional agricultural machine to be linked to the agricultural machine. One of the agricultural machine and the additional agricultural machine is a work vehicle that is capable of self-driving, and the other one is an implement to be linked to the work vehicle. The controller causes, in response to detection of the low or high pressure state, at least one of the agricultural machines to perform a specific operation that is different from an operation to be performed when the pressure is in the reference range.

    Failure detection and response
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11364923B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-21

    申请号:US16612293

    申请日:2018-05-10

    摘要: A system and method of detecting and responding to a failure of one or more vehicle components, the method including: receiving system input at a failure detection module regarding the one or more vehicle components; determining a system state through use of one or more onboard vehicle sensors; obtaining a nominal state transition matrix and a nominal state input matrix; calculating a present state transition matrix estimate and a present state input matrix estimate based on the nominal state transition matrix, the nominal state input matrix, the system input, and a sampled state derivative; detecting a failure of at least one of the vehicle components based on one or more component parameters of the present state transition matrix estimate and/or the present state input matrix estimate; and performing a vehicle action in response to the detection of the failure.

    AUTOMATED VEHICLE SAFETY RESPONSE METHODS AND CORRESPONDING VEHICLE SAFETY SYSTEMS WITH SERIAL-PARALLEL COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES

    公开(公告)号:US20220185339A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-16

    申请号:US17120212

    申请日:2020-12-13

    申请人: Pony Al Inc.

    IPC分类号: B60W60/00 B60W50/02 B60W30/18

    摘要: Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for implementing automated vehicle safety response measures to ensure continued safe automated vehicle operation for a limited period of time after a vehicle component or vehicle system that supports an automated vehicle driving function fails. When a critical vehicle component/system such as a vehicle computing platform fails, the vehicle is likely no longer capable of performing calculations required to safely operate and navigate the vehicle in an autonomous manner, or at a minimum, is no longer able to ensure the accuracy of such calculations. In such a scenario, the automated vehicle safety response measures disclosed herein can ensure—despite failure of the vehicle component/system—continued safe automated operation of the vehicle for a limited period of time in order to bring the vehicle to a safe stop.