IP Library Granted Patent US 10,845,809
Granted Patent B2
US 10,845,809 · App. 16/306,207 · Granted Nov 24, 2020

Automatic driving device

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Patent No.
US 10,845,809
App. No.
16/306,207
Granted
Nov 24, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Achieving safety and natural automatic driving needs a control platform using intelligence (such as learning function and artificial intelligence), but it is difficult to ensure operations suited for the behavior of a vehicle by the output of intelligence. An automatic driving device according to the present invention includes a control program for inputting outside information and vehicle information, and outputting a target control value for a vehicle. The control program has a first program for generating a first target control amount on the basis of a dynamically changing algorithm (which outputs operations based on learning function or artificial intelligence), and a second program for generating a second target control amount on the basis of a prescribed algorithm (which outputs operations according to traffic rules or driving morals).

Claims (12)

1. An automatic driving device comprising:

a processor that is configured to

input outside information and vehicle information, and outputting a target control value for a vehicle,

generate a first target control amount on the basis of a dynamically changing algorithm; and

generate a second target control amount on the basis of a prescribed algorithm, wherein

the target control value is generated on the basis of the first target control amount and the second target control amount,

the dynamically changing algorithm is a processing technique for generating a target control amount on the basis of at least artificial intelligence or a learning function, and

the learning function learns a traveling behavior when a driver causes the vehicle to travel and, when the driver at least violates traffic rules or is contrary to driving morals during traveling, a traveling behavior at this time is not learned.

2. The automatic driving device according to claim 1 , wherein the prescribed algorithm is a processing technique for generating a target control amount on the basis of at least traffic rules and driving morals.

3. The automatic driving device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the first target control amount deviates from a range of the second target control amount, the second target control amount is assigned as the target control value.

4. The automatic driving device according to claim 1 , wherein judgment on which control amount of the first and second target control amounts is to be assigned as the target control value is made on the basis of the outside information.

5. The automatic driving device according to claim 1 , wherein the target control value is a set of a target trajectory and a target speed of the vehicle, or a target control amount for each actuator.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 30, 2021
From: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058481/0935 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 30, 2018
From: IMAI, MASATO; KOJIMA, TAKAO; YOSHIMURA, KENTARO; YOROZUYA, KIYOSHI
To: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 047641/0100 →