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US 11,377,108 B2Granted
Processing a request signal regarding operation of an autonomous vehicle
AssigneeMotional AD LLC
InventorsHarshavardhan Ravichandran, Karl Iagnemma, Eric Wolff
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Abstract
Among other things, a vehicle drives autonomously on a trajectory through a road network to a goal location based on an automatic process for planning the trajectory without human intervention; and an automatic process alters the planning of the trajectory to reach a target location based on a request received from an occupant of the vehicle to engage in a speed-reducing maneuver.
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A method comprising:
- causing a vehicle to drive autonomously on a road network;
- in response to a request signal representing a request for the vehicle to engage in a speed-reducing maneuver, computationally analyzing data to choose a target location for the maneuver from a plurality of target locations by:
- inferring a degree of urgency and an expected stopping time interval from the request signal and the data;
- computing a minimum quality threshold of the plurality of target locations based on the degree of urgency and the expected stopping time interval, wherein a shorter expected stopping time interval corresponds to a lower minimum quality threshold;
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- applying the minimum quality threshold to the plurality of target locations to identify the target location;
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- causing the vehicle to drive autonomously toward the target location and engage in the maneuver.
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