Autonomous driving system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsGo Inoue, Takahiro Yokota, Yoshinori Watanabe, Takaaki Tanaka
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Abstract
An autonomous driving system includes an electronic control unit configured to generate, based on a target route, a target path in a predetermined coordinate system and a speed plan specifying a passage time at a control point on the target path, and rebuild, based on an actual speed of a vehicle, the speed plan when an operation intervention is performed during autonomous driving performed by autonomous driving control for causing the vehicle to travel along the target path according to the speed plan, the operation intervention changing a braking force acting on the vehicle, and perform the autonomous driving control by using an actuator mounted on the vehicle.
Claims8
An autonomous driving system comprising:
- an electronic control unit configured to
- generate a target path represented by a set of control points in a predetermined coordinate system and a speed plan specifying a passage time or passage speed at the control points on the target path,
- perform autonomous driving of a vehicle by an autonomous driving control for causing the vehicle to travel along the target path,
- when an operation intervention is performed by a driver during the autonomous driving that changes a braking force acting on the vehicle and changes an actual speed of the vehicle, rebuild, based on the actual speed of the vehicle, the speed plan by re-setting a relationship between i) a position of each of the control points on the target path and (ii) the passage time or passage speed at the position of each of the control points,
- wherein the speed plan is rebuilt such that, a planned speed of the speed plan built before the operation intervention is changed to match the actual speed that occurs while the operation intervention is being performed, and then the planned speed is gradually increased from a time when the operation intervention is terminated until a predicted vehicle position at a predetermined passage time on the target path, and
- perform the autonomous driving control based on the rebuilt speed plan by using an actuator mounted on the vehicle.
An autonomous driving method, comprising:
- generating, using an electronic control unit (ECU), a target path represented by a set of control points in a predetermined coordinate system and a speed plan specifying a passage time or passage speed at the control points on the target path,
- performing autonomous driving of a vehicle by an autonomous driving control for causing the vehicle to travel along the target path,
- when an operation intervention is performed by a driver during the autonomous driving that changes a braking force acting on the vehicle and changes an actual speed of the vehicle, rebuilding, using the ECU, based on the actual speed of the vehicle, the speed plan by re-setting a relationship between i) a position of each of the control points on the target path and (ii) the passage time or passage speed at the position of each of the control points,
- wherein the speed plan is rebuilt such that, a planned speed of the speed plan built before the operation intervention is changed to match the actual speed that occurs while the operation intervention is being performed, and then the planned speed is gradually increased from a time when the operation intervention is terminated until a predicted vehicle position at a predetermined passage time on the target path, and
- performing the autonomous driving control based on the rebuilt speed plan by using an actuator mounted on the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.