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Granted Patent B2
US 11,768,500 · App. 16/148,243 · Granted Sep 26, 2023

Autonomous driving system

Inventors: Go Inoue (Gotenba, JP); Takahiro Yokota (Susono, JP); Yoshinori Watanabe (Isehara, JP); Takaaki Tanaka (Susono, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G05D1/0223B60W30/10B60W30/143B60W50/08B60W2050/0075B60W2520/10B60W2520/105B60W2540/10B60W2540/12B60W2540/18B60W2720/103B60W2720/106G05D2201/0213
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Patent No.
US 11,768,500
App. No.
16/148,243
Granted
Sep 26, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

An autonomous driving system includes an electronic control unit configured to generate, based on a target route, a target path in a predetermined coordinate system and a speed plan specifying a passage time at a control point on the target path, and rebuild, based on an actual speed of a vehicle, the speed plan when an operation intervention is performed during autonomous driving performed by autonomous driving control for causing the vehicle to travel along the target path according to the speed plan, the operation intervention changing a braking force acting on the vehicle, and perform the autonomous driving control by using an actuator mounted on the vehicle.

Claims (23)

1. An autonomous driving system comprising:

an electronic control unit configured to

generate a target path represented by a set of control points in a predetermined coordinate system and a speed plan specifying a passage time or passage speed at the control points on the target path,

perform autonomous driving of a vehicle by an autonomous driving control for causing the vehicle to travel along the target path,

when an operation intervention is performed by a driver during the autonomous driving that changes a braking force acting on the vehicle and changes an actual speed of the vehicle, rebuild, based on the actual speed of the vehicle, the speed plan by re-setting a relationship between i) a position of each of the control points on the target path and (ii) the passage time or passage speed at the position of each of the control points,

wherein the speed plan is rebuilt such that, a planned speed of the speed plan built before the operation intervention is changed to match the actual speed that occurs while the operation intervention is being performed, and then the planned speed is gradually increased from a time when the operation intervention is terminated until a predicted vehicle position at a predetermined passage time on the target path, and

perform the autonomous driving control based on the rebuilt speed plan by using an actuator mounted on the vehicle.

2. The autonomous driving system according to claim 1 , wherein

the electronic control unit is further configured to rebuild the speed plan, based on an actual acceleration of the vehicle, when the operation intervention is performed.

3. The autonomous driving system according to claim 2 , wherein

the electronic control unit is further configured to rebuild the speed plan by matching a planned acceleration determined by the speed plan to the actual acceleration, when the operation intervention is performed.

4. The autonomous driving system according to the claim 1 , wherein the relationship between (i) the position of each of the control points on the target path and (ii) the passage time or passage speed at the position of each of the control points on the target path, is re-set so that the target path generated before the intervention is maintained.

5. An autonomous driving method, comprising:

generating, using an electronic control unit (ECU), a target path represented by a set of control points in a predetermined coordinate system and a speed plan specifying a passage time or passage speed at the control points on the target path,

performing autonomous driving of a vehicle by an autonomous driving control for causing the vehicle to travel along the target path,

when an operation intervention is performed by a driver during the autonomous driving that changes a braking force acting on the vehicle and changes an actual speed of the vehicle, rebuilding, using the ECU, based on the actual speed of the vehicle, the speed plan by re-setting a relationship between i) a position of each of the control points on the target path and (ii) the passage time or passage speed at the position of each of the control points,

wherein the speed plan is rebuilt such that, a planned speed of the speed plan built before the operation intervention is changed to match the actual speed that occurs while the operation intervention is being performed, and then the planned speed is gradually increased from a time when the operation intervention is terminated until a predicted vehicle position at a predetermined passage time on the target path, and

performing the autonomous driving control based on the rebuilt speed plan by using an actuator mounted on the vehicle.

6. The autonomous driving method according to claim 5 , further comprising:

rebuilding the speed plan, based on the actual speed and an actual acceleration of the vehicle, when the operation intervention is performed.

7. The autonomous driving system method according to claim 6 , further comprising:

rebuilding the speed plan by matching a planned acceleration determined by the speed plan to the actual acceleration, when the operation intervention is performed.

8. The autonomous driving method according to the claim 5 , wherein the relationship between (i) the position of each of the control points on the target path and (ii) the passage time or passage speed at the position of each of the control points on the target path, is re-set so that the target path generated before the intervention is maintained.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 1, 2018
From: INOUE, GO; YOKOTA, TAKAHIRO; WATANABE, YOSHINORI; TANAKA, TAKAAKI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 047171/0517 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-221879 · Nov 17, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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