Cooperative automated vehicle system

    公开(公告)号:US10037696B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-31

    申请号:US15086815

    申请日:2016-03-31

    Abstract: A cooperative-vehicle system suitable to operate an automated vehicle in a courteous or cooperative manner includes an object-detector and a controller. The object-detector is used by the host-vehicle to detect an other-vehicle attempting to enter a travel-lane traveled by the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the object-detector. The controller is configured to control motion of the host-vehicle. The controller is also configured to adjust a present-vector of the host-vehicle to allow the other-vehicle to enter the travel-lane. The decision to take some action to allow the other vehicle to enter the travel-lane may be further based on secondary considerations such as how long the other-vehicle has waited, a classification of the other-vehicle (e.g. an ambulance), an assessment of how any action by the host-vehicle would affect nearby vehicles, the intent of the other-vehicle, and/or a measure traffic-density proximate to the host-vehicle.

    Automated vehicle safe stop zone use notification system

    公开(公告)号:US10025316B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-17

    申请号:US15467611

    申请日:2017-03-23

    Abstract: A safe-stop-zone identification system suitable for use on an automated-vehicle includes a digital-map, a transceiver, and a controller. The digital-map indicates a travel-path suitable for travel by a host-vehicle, wherein the digital-map also indicates a safe-stop-zone proximate to the travel-path. The transceiver is operable to broadcast information about the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the digital-map and the transceiver. The controller navigates the host-vehicle into the safe-stop-zone when an emergency-situation occurs, and then operates the transceiver to broadcast that the safe-stop-zone is occupied by the host-vehicle.

    AUTOMATED-VEHICLE PICKUP-LOCATION EVALUATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20180156625A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-07

    申请号:US15369998

    申请日:2016-12-06

    CPC classification number: G01C21/362 G01C21/3415 G01C21/3667 G08G1/202

    Abstract: An automated-vehicle or automated-taxi pickup-location evaluation system includes a communications-network, an object-detector and/or a digitized-map, and a controller. The communications-network is used to send a transportation-request from a client to an automated-taxi, and communicate a preferred-location where the automated-taxi will meet the client. The object-detector is used to detect an object proximate to the preferred-location. The digitized-map is used to determine a route to the preferred-location for the automated-taxi to follow. The controller is in communication with the object-detector and/or the digitized-map, and the communications-network. The controller determines when the object makes the preferred-location unsuitable to pickup the client, and/or that the digitized-map indicates that the preferred-location is unsuitable to use to pickup the client. The controller then determines an alternate-location to pickup the client, and then communicates the alternate-location to one of the client, the automated-taxi, and both the client and the automated-taxi.

    Automated vehicle operator skill evaluation system

    公开(公告)号:US09870001B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-16

    申请号:US15229997

    申请日:2016-08-05

    Abstract: An operator-evaluation system for an automated vehicle includes a traffic-detector and a controller. The traffic-detector is used to determine a complexity-ranking of a traffic-scenario approached by a host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the traffic-detector and is configured to operate the host-vehicle in: an automated-mode where the controller steers the host-vehicle toward a desired-position of a travel-lane; a monitored-mode where an operator steers the host-vehicle and the controller assists the operator to steer the host-vehicle toward the desired-position when the host-vehicle is farther than a lateral-threshold from the desired-position; and a manual-mode where the operator steers the host-vehicle without assistance from the controller. The controller transitions from the automated-mode to the monitored-mode prior to arrival at the traffic-scenario to determine a skill-ranking of the operator relative to the complexity-ranking, and transitions from the automated-mode to the manual-mode when the complexity-ranking is less than the skill-ranking of the operator.

    Humanized Steering Model For Automated Vehicles

    公开(公告)号:US20170096164A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-04-06

    申请号:US14874760

    申请日:2015-10-05

    Abstract: A humanized steering system for an automated vehicle includes one or more steering-wheels operable to steer a vehicle, an angle-sensor configured to determine a steering-angle of the steering-wheels, a hand-wheel used by an operator of the vehicle to influence the steering-angle and thereby manually steer the vehicle, a steering-actuator operable to influence the steering-angle thereby steer the vehicle when the operator does not manually steer the vehicle, a position-sensor operable to indicate a relative-position an object proximate to the vehicle, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive the steering-angle and the relative-position, determine, using deep-learning techniques, a steering-model based on the steering-angle and the relative-position, and operate the steering-actuator when the operator does not manually steer the vehicle to steer the vehicle in accordance with the steering-model, whereby the vehicle is steered in a manner similar to how the operator manually steers the vehicle.

    Conflict-Resolution System For Operating An Automated Vehicle

    公开(公告)号:US20170249836A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-31

    申请号:US15053414

    申请日:2016-02-25

    CPC classification number: G08G1/0137 B60W30/18154 G05D1/0088 G08G1/163

    Abstract: A conflict-resolution system for operating an automated vehicle includes an intersection detector, a vehicle-detection device, and a controller. The intersection detector is suitable to mount on a host-vehicle. The detector used to determine when the host-vehicle is stopped at or approaches an intersection. The vehicle-detection device is suitable to mount on the host-vehicle. The device is used to detect when an other-vehicle has stopped at or approaches the intersection at the same instant as the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the detector and the device. The controller is configured to determine a wait-time for the host-vehicle to wait before attempting to proceed into the intersection when right-of-way rules are unable to determine when the host-vehicle should proceed into the intersection.

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