Method and apparatus for controlling an autonomous vehicle
AssigneeAptiv Technologies AG
InventorCraig A. Baldwin
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Abstract
A method for operating an automated vehicle includes controlling by one or more computing devices an autonomous vehicle; receiving by one or more computing devices sensor data from the vehicle corresponding to moving objects in a vicinity of the vehicle; receiving by one or more computing devices road condition data; and determining by one or more computing devices undesirable locations related to the moving objects. The undesirable locations related to the moving objects for the vehicle are based at least in part on the road condition data. The step of controlling the vehicle includes avoiding the undesirable locations.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more computing devices, sensor data from a vehicle corresponding to moving objects in a vicinity of the vehicle;
- receiving, by the one or more computing devices, road condition data;
- determining, by the one or more computing devices, hazard zones related to the moving objects, wherein
- the hazard zones are based at least in part on the road condition data indicating where the moving objects are likely to displace material from a surface of a roadway;
- and
- controlling, by the one or more computing devices, the vehicle by avoiding the hazard zones.
A system comprising:
- one or more computing devices configured to:
- receive sensor data from a vehicle corresponding to moving objects in a vicinity of the vehicle;
- receive road condition data;
- determine hazard zones related to the moving objects, wherein the hazard zones are based at least in part on the road condition data indicating where the moving objects are likely to displace material from a surface of a roadway;
- and
- control the vehicle by avoiding the hazard zones.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.