Autonomous Vehicle Occupant Detection for Customized Driving Trajectories
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous vehicles lack the ability to tailor their driving behaviors based on the presence and specific needs of occupants, such as age, position, and preferences, which can impact safety and efficiency.
Innovation Solution
An autonomous vehicle system that determines the presence and location of occupants using sensors and additional information, such as age and identity, to select and perform customized driving operations, including route selection and safety-enhancing maneuvers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If autonomous vehicles use standardized driving operations without considering occupant characteristics, then the system complexity is reduced and ease of operation is improved, but safety and adaptability deteriorate because the vehicle cannot tailor driving behaviors to specific occupant needs
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of occupant characteristics (age, position, presence) before selecting driving operations. This advance preparation allows the vehicle to have multiple pre-defined driving operation sets ready for different occupant scenarios, resolving the contradiction by preparing adaptability in advance without adding complex real-time decision-making machinery
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically selects from multiple driving operation sets based on detected occupant characteristics. The driving behavior is not fixed but adapts in real-time based on who is in the vehicle, allowing the system to maintain simplicity in each individual operation set while achieving overall adaptability through dynamic selection
2Adaptability or versatility
If autonomous vehicles implement customized driving operations based on occupant information, then adaptability and safety are improved, but device complexity and measurement difficulty worsen due to the need for multiple sensors and processing systems
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a single multi-functional sensor system that can detect multiple occupant characteristics (presence, age group, position) simultaneously. This universal sensor approach allows the vehicle to gather comprehensive occupant information without adding separate specialized sensors for each characteristic, achieving high adaptability while controlling device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments driving operations into multiple distinct sets (first set for children, second set for adults, etc.) based on occupant characteristics. This segmentation allows each operation set to be relatively simple and well-defined, while the overall system achieves high adaptability through the ability to select between these segmented operation sets based on sensor detection
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AI summary
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for customizing driving operations of a vehicle based on occupant(s) of the vehicle. An autonomous vehicle that includes a passenger compartment can determine a presence of an occupant of the passenger compartment. The autonomous vehicle can determine a location of the occupant within the passenger compartment. Additional information about the occupant can be determined. A driving operation can be selected from among a plurality of driving operations based on the location and additional information about the occupant. The selected driving operation can be performed, perhaps by the autonomous vehicle.