940 results about "Self driving" patented technology

Systems and methods for efficiently addressing technical and privacy/authorization obstacles associated with tracking of individuals in a vehicle, and enabling route-based analysis to determine driving behavior, socio-demographics, future profitability, and interests of individuals or self-driving systems. Driving information is collected using a device associated with a driver and a vehicle or using data collected by systems of self-driving vehicles. The frequency and methods used for the collection of driving information can be modified based on location and movement of the device and based on previous classification of the driver or self-driving system, thereby enabling efficient use of bandwidth and battery and increasing accuracy of the classification. The driving information is encoded and transmitted to a server, where future typical route segments that the driver is likely to travel are predicted, and the driver, or the self-driving system, is classified into one or more groups based on the encoded driving information.

A method and system for facilitating cost effective, reliable, system redundant, self-driving vehicles involves the employment of specialized lane marking components that permit unprecedented sensor feedback, and in particular, a system and method that enables accurate lane marking recognition despite adverse weather conditions, which presently pose problems experienced by self-driving systems that rely upon vision based camera systems.

The present disclosure relates to enabling an autonomous vehicle operating in a self-driving mode to communicate information about what the vehicle is about to do or is currently doing. For example, one or more processors may maneuver a vehicle in an autonomous or self-driving mode. While maneuvering the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode, a time when the vehicle will begin to accelerate may be determined. A first audible signal may be played through a speaker at a time t seconds before the time when the vehicle will begin to accelerate. While maneuvering the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode, a time when the vehicle will begin to decelerate may also be determined. A second audible signal, different from the first audible signal, may be played through the speaker at the time when the vehicle begins decelerating.

A computer-based method for maintaining an autonomous or self-driving vehicle is provided. The method is implemented using a vehicle controlling (“VC”) computer device installed on the vehicle. The method may include determining that a maintenance operation is required for the self-driving vehicle, retrieving an operator schedule for an operator of the self-driving vehicle, retrieving a facility schedule for a facility, determining a time for performing the maintenance operation based upon the operator schedule, the facility schedule, and an amount of time required to (i) complete the maintenance operation, (ii) drive the self-driving vehicle from a first location to the facility to arrive at the determined time, and (iii) drive the self-driving vehicle to a second location, instructing the self-driving vehicle to drive from the first location to the facility to arrive at the determined time; and/or instructing the self-driving vehicle to drive from the facility a second location.

Described are a method and a system for localization of a vehicle. The method includes the acquisition of SPR images of a subsurface region along a vehicle track. Acquired SPR images are compared to SPR images previously acquired for a subsurface region that at least partially overlaps the subsurface region along the vehicle track. In some embodiments, the comparison includes an image correlation procedure. Location data for the vehicle are determined based in part on location data for the SPR images previously acquired for the second subsurface region. Location data can be used to guide the vehicle along a desired path. The relatively static nature of features in the subsurface region provides the method with advantages over other sensor-based navigation systems that may be adversely affected by weather conditions, dynamic features and time-varying illumination. The method can be used in a variety of applications, including self-driving automobiles and autonomous platforms.

A system and method for measuring a driver's actual driving behaviors (e.g., acceleration, deceleration) in a manual driving mode to determine their preferred driving style, and then causing an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle to operate itself, within limits, in accordance with the drivers' driving style when operating in a self-driving mode, thereby providing a more familiar and comfortable driving experience for the driver. Data is collected on the actual driving behavior, any pre-existing data is accessed on the actual driving behavior, and the collected data and the pre-existing data are combined. A custom control is then created based upon the combined data, and the custom control is applied to manage the self-driving behavior of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle in a self-driving mode. Additional data continues to be collected on the actual driving behavior, and the custom control is adjusted based upon the collected additional data.

During a self-driving control, when an acquisition failure occurs in traveling environment information acquisition required for performing self-driving, and a failure of a steering system of a vehicle equipped with the vehicle driving control apparatus is detected, a brake controller sets an evacuation course along which the vehicle is to travel safely within traveling environment, based on traveling environment information detected last time before the acquisition failure of the traveling environment information, and executes a deceleration of the vehicle and a yaw brake control that applies a yaw moment to the vehicle based on the evacuation course.

A driving support controller determines whether it is an opportunity to change a traveling lane based on a predetermined condition in an self-driving activated state in which an acceleration, a deceleration, and a steering of a vehicle equipped with the driving support controller can be automatically controlled, and performs a control to present a lane change proposal to an operator of the vehicle when a lane change is determined to be possible. The device performs an automatic lane change control in response to an intention of the operator agreeing to the lane change proposal. In this case, when the operator's intention is determined to be in disagreement with the lane change proposal, the control to present the lane change proposal to the operator is suspended until a predetermined cancelling condition is met.

The invention discloses a self-driving rotational flusher, comprising a base and a nozzle body; the inlet of the base is connected with an outside fluid delivery pipe; a fluid flow passage is arranged in the nozzle body; at least one nozzle and/or muzzle are/is arranged on the outlet end of the fluid flow passage; the inlet end thereof is rotatably connected with the base through connecting pieces and is communicated with a base cavity; the device is also provided with a driving mechanism; the driving mechanism at least comprises a driven impeller; the driven impeller is arranged in a fluid cavity with pressure between the base and the nozzle body; the driving mechanism and the nozzle body rotate as a whole. The invention can also arrange an eccentric muzzle that can produce eccentric torque on the nozzle body; the jetting pushing function and the superposition driven by the driven impeller can speed up the rotating of the nozzle body; the nozzle body drives the nozzle, the muzzle or a spray rod which is arranged on the nozzle body to rotate, thus achieving good spraying and jetting effects. The self-driving rotational flusher can use water, oil or other liquid as well as gas/liquid fluids or multi-phase fluids.

Lawn mower and method for controlling self-driving operations of the lawn mower wherein the lawn mower and method include a mower body, multiple wheels for supporting the mower body, and a drive motor for driving at least one wheel. Also disclosed is a controlling method for the mower including the following steps: an operator inputs predetermined parameters via am input device, a processor controls an execution circuit to control the drive motor to work according to the predetermined parameters, a sensor checks the actual operating parameters of the drive motor and feeds them back to the processor, the processor compares the actual operating parameters with the predetermined parameters to produce control signals, the execution circuit receives and processes the control signals, and regulates the actual operating parameters of the drive motor according to the predetermined parameters. The method enables the operation convenient and comfortable.

The invention relates to a laser radar and visual sensor fused dynamic grid map structuring method. The laser radar and visual sensor fused dynamic grid map structuring method comprises combining thelaser radar and the visual sensors of a designated traveling vehicle, marking static targets and dynamic targets through classification, and ensuring information time synchronization of the sensors; during a vehicle traveling process, structuring a multi-dimensional dynamic-static grid map. The laser radar and visual sensor fused dynamic grid map structuring method has the advantage that, comparedwith the prior art, the structured map is the multi-dimensional dynamic-static grid map and is generated during the vehicle travelling process. The structured dynamic-static grip map can show the road states around the current vehicle such as drivable areas, surrounding obstacles and the motion states of the obstacles to provide information for safe driving of the vehicle in a current local areaand to provide a self-driving vehicle with safe, reliable and predictable local road area information, and meanwhile, the visual sensors of the self-driving vehicle can help enrich the information ofthe dynamic-static grid map.

Embodiments of the invention disclose a vehicle control method and device based on automatic driving, equipment and a medium. The method includes the following steps: when control abnormality is recognized according to a current vehicle state, a manual intervention prompt is performed; it is determined that a vehicle performs an automatic driving degradation mode according to an input behavior ofa driver; and in the automatic driving degradation mode, according to the control abnormality, and combining a manual control instruction input by the driver and an automatic control instruction generated by an automatic driving system, driving of the vehicle is controlled. The technical scheme of the embodiments solves the problem that when a self-driving vehicle exits automatic driving, the vehicle directly stops running, the driver lacks of intermediate transition from completely not participating in vehicle control to safely controlling the vehicle, achieves that when a driving level of adriverless vehicle needs to be rolled back, if conditions are possible, rollback of moderate degradation is performed to reduce the burden of the driver, and is beneficial to maintain the safety effect.

A driver assistance apparatus for a vehicle having a self-driving function, and a vehicle including the same, are disclosed. The driver assistance apparatus includes a processor configured to determine at least one of navigation information, image information, or sensor information for the vehicle, and detects a driving state of the vehicle based on the at least one of navigation information, image information, or sensor information. The processor further determines a self-driving function or a safety and convenience function of the vehicle that is appropriate for the detected driving state of the vehicle. A display unit is configured to display the self-driving function or the safety and convenience function that is determined to be appropriate for the driving state of the vehicle.

An automatic drive navigation system includes a navigation terminal having a display, to issue, to a server, a drive request for an autonomous vehicle input by an operator via a LAN communication, the server to hold the drive request, and the autonomous vehicle to start driving upon receipt of the drive request from the server, recognize a spot sign on a driving route, and automatically operate a self-driving system in accordance with the spot sign, wherein the navigation terminal, server, and autonomous vehicle are connected via a LAN and the autonomous vehicle notifies the server of driving information about the autonomous vehicle via the LAN communication, the server holds the notified driving information, and the navigation terminal accesses the server via the LAN communication to display the driving information on the display.

The invention designs a driving path planning method based on the state grid method. Firstly, according to the external environment information and the initial global reference trajectory of the self-driving vehicle, the vehicle motion state and the surrounding environment information of the vehicle are detected by the vehicle-mounted equipment, and the surrounding environment information of the vehicle is updated in real time. Then, the relevant indexes reflecting the driver's personalized trajectory are extracted through the driving simulator experiment, such as the driver's trajectory preview time, the lateral distance compensation value of the lane centerline and the minimum lateral distance value of the distance obstacle when the vehicle is traveling, and the path search strategy is determined according to the above related indexes. Finally, the preview point state of the local trajectory is determined and the local reference trajectory is generated based on the state grid method.The driving path planning method of the invention comprehensively considers the personalized differences of different drivers in the driving process, and the factors considered are more comprehensive, and can provide support for the personalized development of the automatic driving vehicle.