Reroute Path Handling for Continuous Autonomous Driving

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems face interruptions in autonomous driving control when a navigation device reroutes to generate a new traveling route due to limitations in data capacity and transmission between high-precision map information management devices.

Innovation Solution

An information processing method and device that suppresses interruptions by managing path information through deletion processes based on path types and bifurcations, allowing continuous autonomous driving control during reroutes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the navigation device reroutes to generate a new traveling route, then the route accuracy is improved, but the autonomous driving control is interrupted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveroute accuracyVSAvoidautonomous driving control continuity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by having the information processing device prepare to receive and process reroute information before the navigation device actually reroutes. The device maintains readiness to accept new traveling route data, ensuring that when rerouting occurs, the transition is seamless and autonomous driving control continues without interruption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The information processing device acts as an intermediary between the navigation device and the autonomous driving control system. It receives reroute information from the navigation device, processes it by extracting necessary elements, and provides the processed information to maintain autonomous driving control, thus mediating the transition during rerouting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If high-precision map data is used for route projection, then the route accuracy is improved, but the data transmission load is increased

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveroute accuracyVSAvoiddata transmission load
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The information processing device extracts only the necessary elements from the reroute information received from the navigation device. Instead of transmitting or processing the entire high-precision map data set, it selectively extracts relevant route elements needed for autonomous driving control, thereby reducing data transmission load while maintaining route accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments the route information processing into distinct components: the navigation device generates the complete traveling route, the information processing device extracts necessary elements, and the autonomous driving control system receives only the essential segmented data. This segmentation allows high-precision routing while minimizing data transmission requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP4418232B1Information processing method and information processing device
Publication Date: 2026.02.11 NISSAN MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

An information processing method and an information processing device acquire a path information on a path included in a road network set on a map data, acquire a reroute request indicating an instruction to regenerate a route when generating the route that a vehicle is scheduled to travel in correspondence with the road network based on the path information stored in the database, acquire a path type indicating whether a target path on which the vehicle is traveling at a timing when the reroute request is acquired is a first path or a second path bifurcating from the first path, included in the road network, and delete the path information stored in the database based on the path type.