Self-Driving Model Retraining From User Psychological Metrics

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current self-driving models lack personalization and often fail to account for individual user preferences and psychological impacts, leading to decreased trust and performance due to reliance on average user feedback, which can be time-consuming to collect and may not reflect diverse user experiences.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method that computes psychological metrics from user sensor data to generate a personalized self-driving model by re-training the model based on user-specific datasets, adjusting driving actions to minimize negative psychological impacts and align with individual preferences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If self-driving models are modified based on average user feedback, then overall model performance may improve, but the modifications take a long time and do not reflect diverse user experiences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemodel performanceVSAvoidtime to collect feedback and modify model
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by automatically collecting sensor data, computing psychological metrics, generating personalized datasets, and retraining models without manual intervention. The self-driving model autonomously adapts to individual user preferences through continuous monitoring of physiological signals and automated machine learning operations, eliminating the time-consuming manual feedback collection process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements continuous feedback loops by monitoring user physiological data (heart rate, skin conductance, etc.) in real-time, computing psychological metrics from this data, and using these metrics to automatically retrain the self-driving model. This closed-loop feedback mechanism allows the model to continuously adapt to user preferences without manual intervention, resolving the contradiction between model improvement and time consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If self-driving models use average driving styles and preferences, then modifications can be applied broadly, but the perceived performance decreases for individual users with unique preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebroad applicabilityVSAvoidperceived performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by creating personalized self-driving models for each individual user based on their unique physiological responses and psychological metrics. Instead of using a single average model for all users, the system generates user-specific datasets from individual sensor data and trains customized models that reflect each user's unique driving preferences and comfort thresholds, thereby improving perceived performance for each individual.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments the user population into individual users with unique characteristics by computing separate psychological metrics for each person based on their physiological sensor data. This segmentation allows the creation of multiple personalized models rather than a single aggregate model, enabling the system to adapt to diverse user preferences while maintaining broad applicability across different individuals.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Device complexity

If self-driving models do not account for individual psychological impacts, then the model structure remains simple, but user trust decreases due to uncomfortable driving decisions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemodel structureVSAvoiduser trust
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes parameters by incorporating psychological metrics (derived from physiological sensor data such as heart rate, skin conductance, and temperature) as new input parameters for the self-driving model. These psychological parameters enable the model to account for individual user comfort levels and emotional states, allowing it to make driving decisions that consider user trust and comfort without fundamentally altering the underlying model architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11878714B2Techniques for customizing self-driving models
Publication Date: 2024.01.23 HARMAN INT IND INC
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AI summary

In various embodiments, while a self-driving model operates a vehicle, a user monitoring subsystem acquires sensor data associated with a user of the vehicle and a vehicle observation subsystem acquires sensor data associated with the vehicle. The user monitoring subsystem computes values for a psychological metric based on the sensor data associated with the user. Based on the values for the psychological metric, a feedback application determines a description of the user over a first time period. The feedback application generates a dataset based on the description and the sensor data associated with the vehicle. Subsequently, a training application performs machine learning operation(s) on the self-driving model based on the dataset to generate a modified self-driving model. Advantageously, the dataset enables the training application to automatically modify the self-driving model to account for the impact different driving actions have on the user.