ADAS Controller Advancing Warning Start Time

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Solution Overview

Problem

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in vehicles face challenges in rapidly responding to sudden driver maneuvers or changes in traveling environments, and struggle to recognize driver intention accurately, leading to potential collisions or lane deviations due to careless driving.

Innovation Solution

A vehicle system equipped with an image capturing device, detection sensors, and a controller that determines the traveling environment and status based on predefined conditions, advancing the warning start time for ADAS operation and increasing the operation release reference value to ensure safer driving by automatically starting ADAS when careless driving is detected and maintaining its operation until the driver's intention is confirmed.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If ADAS operation is started only when predefined conditions are met, then false activation is reduced, but response time to careless driving is delayed

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveADAS activation accuracyVSAvoidADAS response time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of driver state (drowsiness, distraction) before ADAS activation is needed. By monitoring driver awareness in advance and preparing the system for potential careless driving, the ADAS can be activated immediately when conditions are met, reducing response time while maintaining activation accuracy through pre-validated detection mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If ADAS operation release threshold is set low, then system responds quickly to driver intervention, but false release occurs during normal operation

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveADAS response to driver inputVSAvoidADAS operation stability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor both driver input and driving conditions. When driver intervention is detected, the system evaluates whether the intervention represents genuine driver intention or normal operational adjustments by analyzing patterns over time and correlating with current driving context, thereby distinguishing true driver intent from routine maneuvers.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If ADAS activates early to catch careless driving, then safety is improved, but false activation increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollision prevention capabilityVSAvoidfalse ADAS activation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different detection thresholds and monitoring strategies tailored to specific driving scenarios and risk levels. Rather than using uniform activation criteria, the ADAS adjusts its sensitivity and detection parameters based on the particular driving context, vehicle state, and environmental conditions, allowing early activation in high-risk situations while maintaining higher thresholds in normal conditions to prevent false positives.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10967855B2Vehicle and method for controlling the same
Publication Date: 2021.04.06 HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

A vehicle and a method for controlling the same are provided to advance a control start time of an (ADAS) of a vehicle. The vehicle includes an image capturing device that detects an object using an image of the object located in a peripheral region of a vehicle and a detection sensor that acquires position information of the object and speed information of the object. An input receives a command for starting the ADAS and a controller starts the ADAS when a traveling environment and traveling status of the vehicle satisfy a predefined condition. A warning start time of the ADAS is advanced by a predetermined period of time after starting operation of the ADAS and an operation release reference value for releasing the operation of the ADAS is set to be greater than a predetermined value.