Adaptive Vehicle Control Synchronizing Profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current adaptive cruise control systems limit driver control over vehicle acceleration and deceleration, necessitating systems and methods to customize and alter autonomous operations.
Innovation Solution
An adaptive vehicle control system that determines and compares the autonomous operation profiles of target and neighboring vehicles, allowing the system to alter its operation to match a neighboring vehicle's profile, including the ability to change lanes if necessary, to ensure smoother and more efficient driving.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If adaptive cruise control automatically adjusts vehicle speed to maintain distance from vehicles ahead, then the distance maintenance function is improved, but driver control over acceleration and deceleration is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically switches between autonomous operation modes (first mode with automatic distance maintenance, second mode with driver control) based on driver input, allowing the control characteristics to be adjustable rather than fixed. This resolves the contradiction by making the system adaptable to different operational needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the control parameter state by transitioning between different autonomous operation modes. When the driver provides input, the system changes from automatic speed adjustment mode to driver-controlled mode, effectively changing the control parameter from automated to manual.
2Ease of operation
If the vehicle synchronizes acceleration and deceleration with neighboring vehicles by matching autonomous operation profiles, then driving smoothness is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system copies the autonomous operation profile from a lead vehicle to synchronize acceleration and deceleration patterns. Instead of developing entirely new control algorithms, the system replicates the operational characteristics of the lead vehicle, reducing the complexity of creating smooth driving behavior from scratch.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from sensors to detect the operation profiles of neighboring vehicles and adjusts its own acceleration and deceleration accordingly. This feedback mechanism enables smooth driving by continuously monitoring and adapting to the behavior of surrounding vehicles.
Data Source
AI summary
An adaptive vehicle control system that includes processors, memory modules communicatively coupled to the processors, and machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules that cause the adaptive vehicle control system to determine an autonomous operation profile of a target vehicle positioned in a vehicle operating environment, wherein the vehicle operating environment includes a roadway having one or more lanes, determine an autonomous operation profile of one of more neighboring vehicles positioned within the vehicle operating environment, compare the autonomous operation profile of at least one of the one or more neighboring vehicles with the autonomous operation profile of the target vehicle, and alter a condition of the target vehicle such that the autonomous operation profile of the target vehicle matches an autonomous operation profile of an individual neighboring vehicle of the one or more neighboring vehicles positioned in the same lane as the target vehicle.