Vehicle speed control using speed maps
AssigneeToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
InventorJohn-Michael McNew
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method for controlling the speed of a vehicle, the method comprising: determining a speed limit; determining an offset value based on (i) the speed limit, and (ii) a speed map, the speed map comprising a plurality of entries, each entry associating one of the offset values with a respective speed limit; and setting the speed of the vehicle according to the speed limit and the determined offset value.
Claims20
A method for automatically controlling the speed of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- determining a speed limit;
- determining an offset value that relies on at least one of driver-defined offset values and learned driver behaviors when operating the vehicle by referencing a speed map that is generated with the use of at least one of geographic speed limits and learned driver behaviors, the speed map comprising a plurality of entries, each entry associating one of the offset values with a respective speed limit;
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- automatically setting the speed of the vehicle according to the speed limit and the determined offset value.
A method for automatically controlling the speed of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- determining a speed limit;
- determining a desired speed based on at least one of driver-defined desired speeds and learned driver behaviors when operating the vehicle by referencing a speed map, the speed map comprising a plurality of entries, each entry associating one of the desired speeds with a respective speed limit;
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- automatically setting the speed of the vehicle according to the speed limit, desired speed, and an offset value, wherein the offset value is determined by driver-defined offset values and learned driver behaviors.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a hardware processor of a computing component of a vehicle, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause the hardware processor to:
- determine a speed limit;
- determine an offset value that relies on at least one of driver-defined offset values and learned driver behaviors when operating the vehicle by referencing a speed map that is generated with the use of at least one of geographic speed limits and learned driver behaviors, the speed map comprising a plurality of entries, each entry associating one of the offset values with a respective speed limit;
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- automatically set the speed of the vehicle according to the speed limit and the determined offset value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.