Apparatus for controlling automated driving, and method thereof
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorDae Young Kim
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an autonomous driving control apparatus and an autonomous driving control method, and an exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides the autonomous driving control apparatus including: a driver seating sensor configured to recognize whether or not the driver is seated; a driver monitoring device configured to recognize whether a driver is looking ahead; and a processor configured to determine whether control authority is switchable for activating an autonomous driving control function based on sensing results of the driver seating sensor and the driver monitoring device.
Claims15
An autonomous driving control apparatus comprising:
- a driver seating sensor configured to detect whether or not a driver is seated;
- a driver monitoring device configured to detect whether the driver is looking ahead;
- a hands-on sensor configured to detect a hands-on state of the driver on a steering wheel;
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- a processor configured to determine whether control authority for activating an autonomous driving control function is transferable based at least on results of the driver seating sensor and the driver monitoring device,
- wherein the processor is further configured to shift to a control authority non-transferable state when it is detected by the driver seating sensor that the driver is not seated and when it is detected by the driver monitoring device that the driver is not looking ahead, or when it is detected by the driver seating sensor that the driver is not seated and it is determined by the driver monitoring device that the driver is not looking ahead continuously for more than a predetermined first time, or shift to the control authority non-transferable state when it is detected by the driver seating sensor that that the driver is not seated for a predetermined second time, and it is determined by the driver monitoring device that that the driver is not looking ahead, or shift to the control authority non-transferable state when it is detected by the driver seating sensor that the driver is not seated, the hands-on state of the driver is detected, and it is detected by the driver monitoring device that the driver is not looking ahead continuously for a predetermined third time,
- wherein the predetermined third time is longer than the predetermined first time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.