Apparatus and method for controlling autonomous vehicle lane changes
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorMin Yong Shin
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Abstract
An autonomous driving control apparatus and an autonomous driving control method may include an environment detector detecting vehicle information on one or more vehicles running in a target lane and a processor determining whether a possible lane-change area exists based on the vehicle information, determining a largest area among areas between target lane vehicles as a target lane-change area when the possible lane-change area does not exist, indicating an intention to change a lane to the target lane-change area to determine whether a target lane rear vehicle has an yield intention, and attempting to change the lane based on the determined result.
Claims19
An autonomous driving control apparatus comprising:
- an environment detector configured to sense vehicle information on one or more vehicles running in a target lane;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- determine whether a possible lane-change area exists based on the vehicle information,
- determine a largest area among areas between target lane vehicles as a target lane-change area when the possible lane-change area does not exist,
- indicate an intention to change a lane to the target lane-change area to determine whether a target lane rear vehicle has a yield intention, and
- attempt to change the lane based on the determined result of whether the target lane rear vehicle has the yield intention.
An autonomous driving control method comprising:
- detecting vehicle information on one or more vehicles running in a target lane;
- determining whether a possible lane-change area exists based on the vehicle information;
- determining a largest area among areas between target lane vehicles as a target lane-change area when the possible lane-change area does not exist;
- indicating an intention to change a lane to the target lane-change area to a target lane rear vehicle;
- determining whether the target lane rear vehicle has a yield intention;
- and
- attempting to change the lane based on the determined result of the yield intention.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.