Affecting Functions of a Vehicle Based on Function-Related Information about its Environment
Among other things, information is received about a function-related feature of an environment of a vehicle that has been identified in connection with a location of the vehicle. Execution of a function of the vehicle is affected to alter performance characteristics of the function based on the identified function-related feature.
1 . A method comprising
based on information received about a function-related feature of an environment of a vehicle that has been identified in connection with a location of the vehicle, affecting execution of a function of a vehicle to alter performance characteristics of the function based on the identified function-related feature.
2 . The method of claim 1 in which the function-related feature comprises a geographic region.
3 . The method of claim 1 in which the function-related feature comprises a road feature.
4 . The method of claim 1 in which the function comprises a software process.
5 . The method of claim 1 in which the function comprises motion planning.
6 . The method of claim 1 in which the function comprises trajectory tracking.
7 . The method of claim 1 in which the function comprises actuator control.
8 . The method of claim 1 in which the function comprises decision-making.
9 . The method of claim 1 in which the function comprises perception processing.
10 . The method of claim 1 in which the function comprises localization of the vehicle.
11 . The method of claim 1 in which the function comprises sensor data recording on-board the vehicle.
12 . The method of claim 1 in which the execution of the function is affected by switching from one function to another function.
13 . The method of claim 1 in which the execution of the function is affected by altering an operation of a function.
14 . The method of claim 1 in which the affecting of the execution of the function is based on parameter settings.
15 . The method of claim 14 in which the parameter settings are selected from among two or more different sets of parameter settings.
16 . The method of claim 1 in which the affecting of the execution of the function is based on prior information.
17 . The method of claim 16 in which the prior information comprises a simulation model.
18 . The method of claim 16 in which the prior information includes two or more simulation models.
19 . The method of claim 1 comprising receiving the information about the function-related feature from a database.