Personalized Automatic Driving Track Planning via Style-Based Cost Functions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current automatic driving track planning algorithms fail to personalize driving tracks for individual drivers, leading to a poor match with different driving styles and resulting in a prolonged running-in period for automatic driving.

Innovation Solution

An automatic driving track obtaining method and apparatus that identifies a driver's unique driving style coefficient, constructs a cost function based on safety, comfort, compliance, and efficiency items, and generates a personalized driving track using a three-dimensional spatial-temporal map, considering both the driver's style and surrounding vehicle dynamics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a same standard track planning algorithm is used for any driver, then the system maintains portability and basic safety, but the driving track cannot match individual driving styles resulting in poor personalization

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization of driving trackVSAvoidcomplexity of track planning system
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the driving style into multiple independent dimensions (steering smoothness, speed control, lane changing behavior, etc.) and represents them as separate coefficients. This allows the system to personalize tracking by combining these segmented elements rather than requiring a completely complex new system architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameters of the existing track planning algorithm by introducing driving style coefficients that modify the cost function weights. Instead of redesigning the entire system, it adjusts specific parameters (coefficients for different driving behavior aspects) to achieve personalization while maintaining the base algorithm's portability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If a standardized cost function is used for all drivers, then the system remains simple and portable, but it cannot account for individual driving styles and surrounding vehicle dynamics

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptation to driving stylesVSAvoidloss of driver behavior information
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary action by pre-defining multiple driving style templates with characteristic coefficient combinations before actual track planning. When a driver's style is identified, the corresponding pre-prepared coefficients are directly applied, avoiding information loss while keeping the system simple and portable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If traditional track planning is used without driving style consideration, then the system is simple to implement, but the running-in period is prolonged as drivers must adapt to generic tracking

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvematching between track and driverVSAvoidrunning-in period duration
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback by continuously monitoring actual driver behavior during the running-in period and using this information to refine or select the most appropriate driving style coefficients. This feedback mechanism accelerates the matching process between track planning and individual driver preferences, reducing the running-in period while improving reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3730370B1Method and device for acquiring automatic driving track
Publication Date: 2024.04.03 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

An automatic driving track obtaining method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining a driving style coefficient of a driver of a vehicle A (S101); calculating a cost function of the driver of the vehicle A based on the driving style coefficient of the driver of the vehicle A (S102), where the cost function is used to represent costs paid when the vehicle A travels from an initial node to a current node in a driving track of the vehicle A; and obtaining the driving track of the vehicle A on a first three-dimensional spatial-temporal map through calculation according to the cost function (S 103). The driving track obtained by using the method and the apparatus can match driving styles of all drivers. This improves driver satisfaction on the driving track, and lessens a running-in period in which the driver performs automatic driving.