AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEMS AND CONTROL LOGIC FOR CLOUD-BASED SCENARIO PLANNING OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

    公开(公告)号:US20190286151A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-19

    申请号:US15920810

    申请日:2018-03-14

    Abstract: Presented are scenario-planning and route-generating distributed computing systems, methods for operating/constructing such systems, and vehicles with scenario-plan selection and real-time trajectory planning capabilities. A method for controlling operation of a motor vehicle includes determining vehicle state data, such as a current position and velocity of the vehicle, and path plan data, such as an origin and desired destination of the vehicle. A remote computing node off-board from the motor vehicle generates a list of trajectory plan candidates based on the vehicle state data, the path plan data, and current road scenario data. The remote computing node then calculates a respective travel cost for each candidate in the trajectory plan candidates list, and sorts the list from lowest to highest travel cost. The candidate with the lowest travel cost is transmitted to a resident vehicle controller. The vehicle controller executes an automated driving operation based on the received trajectory plan candidate.

    Identification of distracted pedestrians

    公开(公告)号:US11120279B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-14

    申请号:US16426566

    申请日:2019-05-30

    Abstract: A method for identifying distracted pedestrians. The method includes determining operating conditions of a vehicle using a plurality of vehicle controllers. Pedestrian parameters for a pedestrian in a vicinity of the vehicle are acquired using a plurality of vehicle sensors. The pedestrian parameters include at least one of face positions, body positions, gait and hand gestures. Information related to an environment surrounding the vehicle is acquired. Pedestrian awareness level is determined based on the acquired pedestrian parameters and based on the information related to the environment surrounding the vehicle. A determination is made whether the pedestrian awareness level is below a predefined threshold. The pedestrian is classified as distracted, in response to determining that the pedestrian awareness level is below the predefined threshold.

    MULTIMODAL VEHICLE-TO-PEDESTRIAN NOTIFICATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20200377012A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-03

    申请号:US16425871

    申请日:2019-05-29

    Abstract: A method for improving pedestrian safety is provided. The method includes determining operating conditions of a vehicle using a plurality of vehicle sensors. A path of the vehicle is predicted based on the determined operating conditions. Pedestrian parameters for a pedestrian in a vicinity of the vehicle are acquired using the plurality of vehicle sensors. The pedestrian parameters include at least one of a position, a speed of the pedestrian, gait, body posture and a level of distractedness. A determination is made whether a notification of the pedestrian is necessary based on the determined vehicle operating conditions and the acquired pedestrian parameters. A mode of notification of the pedestrian is selected from a plurality of modes of notification, in response to determining that the notification of the pedestrian is necessary. The pedestrian is notified using the selected mode of notification.

    SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR EMBEDDED ENCODINGS OF CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION USING A NEURAL NETWORK WITH VECTOR SPACE MODELING

    公开(公告)号:US20200050207A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-13

    申请号:US16059403

    申请日:2018-08-09

    Abstract: Systems, Apparatuses and Methods for implementing a neural network system for controlling an autonomous vehicle (AV) are provided, which includes: a neural network having a plurality of nodes with context to vector (context2vec) contextual embeddings to enable operations of the of the AV; a plurality of encoded context2vec AV words in a sequence of timing to embed data of context and behavior; a set of inputs which comprise: at least one of a current, a prior, and a subsequent encoded context2vec AV word; a neural network solution applied by the at least one computer to determine a target context2vec AV word of each set of the inputs based on the current context2vec AV word; an output vector computed by the neural network that represents the embedded distributional one-hot scheme of the input encoded context2vec AV word; and a set of behavior control operations for controlling a behavior of the AV.

    Multimodal vehicle-to-pedestrian notification system

    公开(公告)号:US11007929B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-18

    申请号:US16425871

    申请日:2019-05-29

    Abstract: A method for improving pedestrian safety is provided. The method includes determining operating conditions of a vehicle using a plurality of vehicle sensors. A path of the vehicle is predicted based on the determined operating conditions. Pedestrian parameters for a pedestrian in a vicinity of the vehicle are acquired using the plurality of vehicle sensors. The pedestrian parameters include at least one of a position, a speed of the pedestrian, gait, body posture and a level of distractedness. A determination is made whether a notification of the pedestrian is necessary based on the determined vehicle operating conditions and the acquired pedestrian parameters. A mode of notification of the pedestrian is selected from a plurality of modes of notification, in response to determining that the notification of the pedestrian is necessary. The pedestrian is notified using the selected mode of notification.

    Systems, apparatus, and methods for embedded encodings of contextual information using a neural network with vector space modeling

    公开(公告)号:US10678252B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-09

    申请号:US16059403

    申请日:2018-08-09

    Abstract: Systems, Apparatuses and Methods for implementing a neural network system for controlling an autonomous vehicle (AV) are provided, which includes: a neural network having a plurality of nodes with context to vector (context2vec) contextual embeddings to enable operations of the AV; a plurality of encoded context2vec AV words in a sequence of timing to embed data of context and behavior; a set of inputs which comprise: at least one of a current, a prior, and a subsequent encoded context2vec AV word; a neural network solution applied by the at least one computer to determine a target context2vec AV word of each set of the inputs based on the current context2vec AV word; an output vector computed by the neural network that represents the embedded distributional one-hot scheme of the input encoded context2vec AV word; and a set of behavior control operations for controlling a behavior of the AV.

    IDENTIFICATION OF DISTRACTED PEDESTRIANS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200380273A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-03

    申请号:US16426566

    申请日:2019-05-30

    Abstract: A method for identifying distracted pedestrians. The method includes determining operating conditions of a vehicle using a plurality of vehicle controllers. Pedestrian parameters for a pedestrian in a vicinity of the vehicle are acquired using a plurality of vehicle sensors. The pedestrian parameters include at least one of face positions, body positions, gait and hand gestures. Information related to an environment surrounding the vehicle is acquired. Pedestrian awareness level is determined based on the acquired pedestrian parameters and based on the information related to the environment surrounding the vehicle. A determination is made whether the pedestrian awareness level is below a predefined threshold. The pedestrian is classified as distracted, in response to determining that the pedestrian awareness level is below the predefined threshold.

    Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle behavior control

    公开(公告)号:US10591914B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-17

    申请号:US15806367

    申请日:2017-11-08

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for controlling a vehicle. Control signals are generated at a high-level controller based on one or more sources of input data, comprising at least one of: sensors that provide sensor output information, map data and goals. The high-level controller comprises first controller modules comprising: an input processing module, a projection module, a memories module, a world model module, and a decision processing module that comprises a control model executor module. The control signals are processed at a low-level controller to generate commands that control a plurality of vehicle actuators of the vehicle in accordance with the control signals to execute one or more scheduled actions to be performed to automate driving tasks.

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