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US 11,453,410 B2Granted
Reducing processing requirements for vehicle control
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorSubrata Kumar Kundu
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Abstract
In some examples, one or more processors of a vehicle may receive location field-of-view (FOV) data for an upcoming location on a route traversed by the vehicle. For instance, the one or more processors may select, based on the location FOV data, one or more sensors to activate on the vehicle for performing sensing in a direction of a field of view indicated by the location FOV data. In addition, the one or more processors may cause the vehicle to traverse the upcoming location with the one or more sensors activated on the vehicle for performing sensing in the direction of the FOV indicated by the location FOV data.
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A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing executable instructions that configure the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, from a database, location field of view (FOV) data for an upcoming location on a route traversed by a vehicle, wherein the database includes location FOV data for a plurality of locations on the route, the location FOV data having been stored in the database in advance and having been determined from monitoring respective FOVs of a plurality of human operators of a plurality of vehicles that previously traversed the plurality of locations on the route;
- selecting, based at least on the location FOV data received from the database, a first set of one or more sensors to activate on the vehicle for performing sensing in a direction of a FOV indicated by the location FOV data for the upcoming location;
- selecting, based at least on the location FOV data received from the database, a second set of one or more other sensors to temporarily deactivate on the vehicle during traversal of the upcoming location, wherein the second set of one or more other sensors is configured to perform sensing outside of the FOV indicated by the location FOV data received from the database;
- based at least on the location FOV data received from the database, causing the vehicle to traverse the upcoming location with the first set of one or more selected sensors activated on the vehicle for performing sensing in the direction of the FOV indicated by the location FOV data;
- and
- based at least on the location FOV data received from the database, causing the vehicle to traverse at least a portion of the upcoming location with the second set of one or more other sensors temporarily deactivated on the vehicle.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more processors on a vehicle, from a database, location field of view (FOV) data for an upcoming location on a route traversed by the vehicle, wherein the database includes location FOV data for a plurality of locations on the route, the location FOV data having been stored in the database in advance and having been determined from monitoring respective FOVs of a plurality of human operators of a plurality of vehicles that previously traversed the plurality of locations on the route;
- selecting, by the one or more processors, based at least on the location FOV data received from the database, a first set of one or more sensors to activate on the vehicle for performing sensing in a direction of a FOV indicated by the location FOV data for the upcoming location;
- selecting, by the one or more processors, based at least on the location FOV data received from the database, a second set of one or more other sensors to temporarily deactivate on the vehicle during traversal of the upcoming location;
- based at least on the location FOV data received from the database, causing, by the one or more processors, the vehicle to traverse the upcoming location with the first set of one or more sensors activated on the vehicle for performing sensing in the direction of the FOV indicated by the location FOV data;
- and
- based at least on the location FOV data received from the database, causing, by the one or more processors, the vehicle to traverse at least a portion of the upcoming location with the second set of one or more other sensors temporarily deactivated on the vehicle.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing processor executable instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, by one or more processors on a vehicle, from a database, location field of view (FOV) data for an upcoming location on a route traversed by the vehicle, wherein the database includes location FOV data for a plurality of locations on the route, the location FOV data having been stored in the database in advance and having been determined from monitoring respective FOVs of a plurality of human operators of a plurality of vehicles that previously traversed the plurality of locations on the route;
- selecting, by the one or more processors, based at least on the location FOV data received from the database, a first set of one or more sensors to activate on the vehicle for performing sensing in a direction of a FOV indicated by the location FOV data for the upcoming location;
- selecting, by the one or more processors, based at least on the location FOV data received from the database, a second set of one or more other sensors to temporarily deactivate on the vehicle during traversal of the upcoming location;
- based at least on the location FOV data received from the database, causing, by the one or more processors, the vehicle to traverse the upcoming location with the first set of one or more sensors activated on the vehicle for performing sensing in the direction of the FOV indicated by the location FOV data;
- and
- based at least on the location FOV data received from the database, causing, by the one or more processors, the vehicle to traverse at least a portion of the upcoming location with the second set of one or more other sensors temporarily deactivated on the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.