Smart Gains Model for Autonomous Vehicle Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current automatic driving technologies face challenges such as high computational complexity, the 'black-box' problem in neural networks, and the inability to effectively manage multi-objective control for safe driving, comfortable riding, and energy efficiency, leading to difficulties in man-machine sensory fusion and ethical decision-making in emergency situations.

Innovation Solution

The 'Smart Gains' model employs a machine learning approach using a maximum probability Gaussian process to learn driving skills from human experience, enabling optimized control of automatic driving vehicles through a decision information module, data module, and driving module that integrates machine consciousness and prior knowledge for closed-loop control.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional neural network algorithms are used for automatic driving control, then the system can learn from data, but the computational complexity becomes huge and hardware overhead increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelearning capabilityVSAvoidcomputational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential learning capabilities needed for automatic driving control from complex neural networks, implementing a simplified control algorithm that achieves the necessary adaptability without the computational burden of full neural network processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical neural network computation system with an optimized control algorithm that achieves similar learning outcomes through more efficient mathematical operations, reducing hardware requirements and computational complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Adaptability or versatility

If traditional neural network models are used, then the system can process driving data, but the threshold values are defined artificially and the black-box problem cannot be solved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata processing capabilityVSAvoidinterpretability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer between data input and control output that provides interpretable intermediate representations, allowing the system to maintain data processing capability while making the decision-making process transparent and understandable

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter representation from artificial threshold values to continuously adjustable control parameters that can be optimized through learning, enabling both data-driven adaptation and interpretability through meaningful parameter semantics

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If deep learning with more hidden layers is used to improve learning capability, then the model becomes more powerful, but the calculation becomes more complex and the black-box problem worsens

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelearning capabilityVSAvoidcalculation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies partial learning - using only the essential learning capabilities needed for automatic driving control rather than attempting to implement full deep learning, achieving sufficient adaptability with reduced computational complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

4Reliability

If rule-based fuzzy inference is used for automatic driving control, then the system can handle uncertainty, but it cannot effectively manage multi-objective control for safety, comfort, and energy efficiency simultaneously

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehandling uncertaintyVSAvoidmulti-objective control capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the uncertainty handling capabilities of fuzzy logic with the multi-objective optimization capabilities of modern control theory, creating a unified control framework that simultaneously addresses safety, comfort, and energy efficiency while maintaining interpretability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11720099B2Control method of automatic driving imported “smart gains” model, device and program
Publication Date: 2023.08.08 APOLLO JAPAN CO LTD
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AI summary

A control method of automatic driving imported “Smart Gains” model can bypass the problem caused by high levels of complexity that currently trouble automatic driving control systems. The knowledge generated by a Gaussian process machine learning model with the maximum probability can carry out the closed-loop control of automatic driving with a given trajectory, can solve the nonlinear adjustment problem of the actuators of the automatic driving vehicle, as well as the optimization control problem of the randomness of the control object. This feature can also make the automatic driving vehicle run smoothly, save energy, be comfortable and fast, and achieve automatic driving above Level 4.