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US 11,237,565 B2Granted
Optimal driving characteristic adjustment for autonomous vehicles
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsPaul Krystek, Shikhar Kwatra, John Wilson, Bryan Baysinger
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Abstract
Embodiments for implementing intelligent driving comfort adjustment of an autonomous vehicle by a processor. A user experience satisfaction level may be determined during a journey within an autonomous vehicle according to historical user experience satisfaction levels, a user profile, one or more contextual factors, or a combination thereof. One or more performance characteristics of the autonomous vehicle may be adjusted if a user experience satisfaction level is less than a predetermined threshold.
Claims20
A method, by a processor, for implementing intelligent driving characteristic adjustment for autonomous vehicles, comprising:
- determining a user experience satisfaction level for one or more users during a journey within an autonomous vehicle according to historical user experience satisfaction levels, one or more user profiles, one or more contextual factors, or a combination thereof;
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- dynamically adjusting one or more performance characteristics of the autonomous vehicle for the one or more users according to the historical user experience satisfaction levels, the one or more user profiles, one or more contextual factors, or a combination thereof, if the user experience satisfaction level is less than a predetermined threshold, wherein during the dynamic adjustment, the one or more performance characteristics are continuously adjusted to bring the user experience satisfaction level above the predetermined threshold by maintaining the one or more performance characteristics substantially below a stress threshold comprised of a first percentage above a value indicative of previous amalgamated user experiences represented by the one or more user profiles, notwithstanding the one or more performance characteristics are allowed to exceed the stress threshold to a recovery threshold, comprised of a second percentage, as the dynamic adjustment is performed, and wherein the stress threshold and the recovery threshold are implemented as dual thresholds for a particular characteristic of the one or more performance characteristics allowed to exceed the stress threshold to introduce the one or more users into becoming comfortable with the particular characteristic as the one or more users travel in the autonomous vehicle.
A system for implementing intelligent driving characteristic adjustment for autonomous vehicles, comprising:
- one or more computers with executable instructions that when executed cause the system to:
- determine a user experience satisfaction level during a journey within an autonomous vehicle according to historical user experience satisfaction levels, a user profile, one or more contextual factors, or a combination thereof;
- and
- dynamically adjust one or more performance characteristics of the autonomous vehicle for the one or more users according to the historical user experience satisfaction levels, the one or more user profiles, one or more contextual factors, or a combination thereof, if the user experience satisfaction level is less than a predetermined threshold, wherein during the dynamic adjustment, the one or more performance characteristics are continuously adjusted to bring the user experience satisfaction level above the predetermined threshold by maintaining the one or more performance characteristics substantially below a stress threshold comprised of a first percentage above a value indicative of previous amalgamated user experiences represented by the one or more user profiles, notwithstanding the one or more performance characteristics are allowed to exceed the stress threshold to a recovery threshold, comprised of a second percentage, as the dynamic adjustment is performed, and wherein the stress threshold and the recovery threshold are implemented as dual thresholds for a particular characteristic of the one or more performance characteristics allowed to exceed the stress threshold to introduce the one or more users into becoming comfortable with the particular characteristic as the one or more users travel in the autonomous vehicle.
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A computer program product for implementing intelligent driving characteristic adjustment for autonomous vehicles by a processor, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:
- an executable portion that determines a user experience satisfaction level during a journey within an autonomous vehicle according to historical user experience satisfaction levels, a user profile, one or more contextual factors, or a combination thereof;
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- an executable portion that dynamically adjusts one or more performance characteristics of the autonomous vehicle for the one or more users according to the historical user experience satisfaction levels, the one or more user profiles, one or more contextual factors, or a combination thereof, if the user experience satisfaction level is less than a predetermined threshold, wherein during the dynamic adjustment, the one or more performance characteristics are continuously adjusted to bring the user experience satisfaction level above the predetermined threshold by maintaining the one or more performance characteristics substantially below a stress threshold comprised of a first percentage above a value indicative of previous amalgamated user experiences represented by the one or more user profiles, notwithstanding the one or more performance characteristics are allowed to exceed the stress threshold to a recovery threshold, comprised of a second percentage, as the dynamic adjustment is performed, and wherein the stress threshold and the recovery threshold are implemented as dual thresholds for a particular characteristic of the one or more performance characteristics allowed to exceed the stress threshold to introduce the one or more users into becoming comfortable with the particular characteristic as the one or more users travel in the autonomous vehicle.
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