IP Library Granted Patent US 11,518,409
Granted Patent B2
US 11,518,409 · App. 17/834,411 · Granted Dec 6, 2022

Safety control method and system based on environmental risk assessment for intelligent connected vehicle

Inventors: Hong Wang (Beijing, CN); Wenhao Yu (Beijing, CN); Ziwen Duan (Beijing, CN); Jun Li (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: Tsinghua University
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Patent No.
US 11,518,409
App. No.
17/834,411
Granted
Dec 6, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present application disclose a safety control method and a safety control system based on environmental risk assessment for an intelligent connected vehicle. The method includes: when a vehicle is in an automatic driving mode, acquiring environmental parameter information of the vehicle in a current driving environment; determining a target driving control parameter which meets a preset safe driving condition under the current environmental parameter; and managing a current automatic driving level of the vehicle by using the target driving control parameter.

Claims (45)

1. A safety control method based on environmental risk assessment for an intelligent connected vehicle, comprising:

acquiring environmental parameter information of a vehicle in a current driving environment when the vehicle is in an automatic driving mode;

determining a target driving control parameter which meets a preset safe driving condition under the current environmental parameter; and

managing a current automatic driving level of the vehicle by using the target driving control parameter;

wherein the environmental parameter information comprises at least one of the following:

an external ambient temperature T of the vehicle, a weather condition W in a driving area, an adhesion coefficient F of a road surface ahead for driving and a roughness R of a current road surface for driving;

the driving control parameter comprises at least one of the following:

a maximum vehicle speed v max , a maximum engine power P max , a maximum steering wheel angle φ max , a maximum engine torque M max and a current minimum following distance L min in different traffic scenarios;

wherein the environmental parameter information is obtained by:

using a temperature sensor installed outside the vehicle to acquire the external ambient temperature T;

acquiring geographic position information L of the vehicle and requesting to acquire the weather condition W corresponding to the geographic position information L;

determining the adhesion coefficient F of the road surface in front of the vehicle by using image information I of the road surface in front of the vehicle collected by a camera installed inside the vehicle; and

determining the roughness R of the current road surface by using an unsprung mass acceleration sensor installed on a kingpin of each wheel of the vehicle.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the target driving control parameter is obtained by:

pre-building a corresponding relationship between each environmental parameter and a driving control parameter, wherein a determination mode of a driving control parameter for a same environmental parameter in different value intervals is recorded in each group of the corresponding relationships; and

according to the corresponding relationships between the environmental parameters and the driving control parameters, determining the target driving control parameter corresponding to the environmental parameter information in the current driving environment.

3. The method according to claim 1 , comprising:

determining a maximum vehicle speed v T_max and a maximum engine power P T_max under a constraint of the external ambient temperature T;

determining a maximum vehicle speed v W_max and a minimum following distance L W_min under a constraint of the weather condition W;

determining a maximum steering wheel angle φ F_max , a maximum engine torque M F_max and a minimum following distance L F_min under a constraint of the adhesion coefficient F of the road surface ahead for driving; and

determining a maximum vehicle speed v R_max under a constraint of the roughness R of the road surface on which the vehicle travels.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the target driving control parameter is determined in the following manner:

v max =min{ v T_max ,v W_max ,v F_max ,v R_max };

φ max =φ F_max ;

M max =M F_max ;

P max =P T_max ;

L min =max{ L W_min ,L F_min }.

5. The method according to claim 3 , wherein:

the weather condition W comprises at least two dimensions which are selected from rain, snow and visibility;

when the maximum vehicle speed v W_max and the minimum vehicle following distance L W_min are determined according to the weather condition W, the maximum vehicle speed v W_max and the minimum vehicle following distance L W_min corresponding to each dimension in the weather condition are determined.

6. A safety control system based on environmental risk assessment for an intelligent connected vehicle, comprising:

an acquisition module configured to acquire environmental parameter information of a vehicle in a current driving environment when the vehicle is in an automatic driving mode;

a determination module configured to determine a target driving control parameter which meets a preset safe driving condition under the current environmental parameter; and

a management module configured to manage a current automatic driving level of the vehicle by using the target driving control parameter;

wherein the environmental parameter information comprises at least one of the following:

an external ambient temperature T of the vehicle, a weather condition W in a driving area, an adhesion coefficient F of a road surface ahead for driving and a roughness R of a current road surface for driving;

the driving control parameter comprises at least one of the following:

a maximum vehicle speed v max , a maximum engine power P max , a maximum steering wheel angle φ max , a maximum engine torque M max and a current minimum following distance L min in different traffic scenarios;

wherein the environmental parameter information is obtained by:

using a temperature sensor installed outside the vehicle to acquire the external ambient temperature T;

acquiring geographic position information L of the vehicle and requesting to acquire the weather condition W corresponding to the geographic position information L;

determining the adhesion coefficient F of the road surface in front of the vehicle by using image information I of the road surface in front of the vehicle collected by a camera installed inside the vehicle; and

determining the roughness R of the current road surface by using an unsprung mass acceleration sensor installed on a kingpin of each wheel of the vehicle.

7. A non-transitory storage medium in which a computer program is stored, wherein when being run, the computer program is configured to perform the method according to claim 1 .

8. An electronic device comprising a memory and a processor, wherein a computer program is stored in the memory, and the processor is configured to run the computer program to perform the method according to claim 1 .

Assignments (2)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE THE FIRST INVENTOR'S LAST NAME PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 061014 FRAME: 0706. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Sep 9, 2022
From: WANG, HONG
To: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
Reel/Frame 061400/0126 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 7, 2022
From: WANT, HONG; YU, WENHAO; DUAN, ZIWEN; LI, JUN
To: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
Reel/Frame 061014/0706 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202110363690.7 · Apr 2, 2021 · national
Continuity (2)
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