Lane-Level Route Guidance for Adaptive Autonomous Lane-Keeping

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle systems lack effective methods for optimizing autonomous driving visibility and lane-keeping capabilities, particularly in dynamic road conditions, which can lead to inefficiencies and safety risks.

Innovation Solution

A route providing device that integrates communication, sensing, and processing units to receive and fuse map and sensor data, generating autonomous driving visibility information and dynamically adjusting lane-keeping strategies based on road conditions and object detection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If autonomous driving systems use basic navigation routes, then system complexity is reduced, but lane-keeping precision and driving safety deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidlane-keeping precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the route information into multiple hierarchical levels: basic navigation routes, detailed lane-level routes, and dynamic adjustment parameters. This segmentation allows the system to process only necessary detailed information for lane-keeping while maintaining overall system simplicity, resolving the contradiction between system complexity and lane-keeping precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent adds a temporal dimension to route information by providing dynamic updates and predictions about future road conditions, intersections, and traffic patterns. This enables the system to maintain high lane-keeping precision without requiring permanently complex system architecture, as complexity is activated only when needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Measurement precision

If the system processes detailed map information in real-time, then lane-keeping accuracy improves, but computational time and processing load increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelane-keeping accuracyVSAvoidcomputational time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary processing of map information offline to pre-calculate optimal routes, lane sequences, and intersection approaches. This pre-computation stores essential lane-keeping data in advance, allowing the real-time system to simply retrieve and execute pre-determined lane sequences without heavy computational processing, thus maintaining high accuracy while minimizing computational time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies different processing qualities to different spatial locations: high-detail processing for current and near-future segments where lane-keeping is critical, and lower-detail processing for distant segments. This local quality differentiation maintains lane-keeping accuracy in critical zones while reducing overall computational time and processing load.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Device complexity

If the vehicle uses fixed lane-keeping strategies, then control system simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to dynamic road conditions deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol system simplicityVSAvoidadaptability to road conditions
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic lane-keeping strategies that automatically adjust based on real-time road conditions, detected objects, and navigation context. The system transitions between different control modes (e.g., aggressive lane-centering, conservative lane-following, intersection preparation) based on situational parameters, maintaining control system conceptual simplicity while achieving high adaptability through rule-based dynamic adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12466399B2Device for providing route and method for providing route therefor
Publication Date: 2025.11.11 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

A processor of a device for providing a route according to an embodiment of the present invention may, on the basis of entering a first lane-maintaining driving mode, cause a vehicle to drive so as not to deviate from a first lane, and on the basis of a preset condition being satisfied, may enter a second lane-maintaining driving mode in which the vehicle is caused to drive in the first lane and a second lane adjacent to the first lane.