Method and apparatus for controlling a vehicle's driving operation using advance information

A method of controlling driving of a vehicle using advance information, the method comprising:

• acquiring preset local information about a predetermined region;
• acquiring a driving experience value resulting from a previous drive using the local information and setting a target speed corresponding to an attribute of a road using the driving experience value;
• determining a driving state and a driving speed of the vehicle on the basis of the local information, and the target speed, of a current position of the vehicle;
• and
• generating a driving control command corresponding to the driving state and the driving speed,
• wherein the driving state of the vehicle includes a main driving state and a vehicle lane change driving state, the main driving state includes a basic driving state, which is previously determined based on the attribute of the road, and a sub-driving state, which is not the basic driving state, and the vehicle lane change driving state is determined to change lanes on a driving route,
• wherein, when a destination of the vehicle is not set, the vehicle is controlled to drive according to the basic driving state,
• wherein control information for the basic driving state includes:
• first information that controls the vehicle to drive on a basic driving lane assigned for each of roads in the predetermined region;
• and
• second information that controls the vehicle to drive on a particular direction among a plurality of directions of the basic driving lane when the basic driving lane allows vehicles to drive in the plurality of directions, and
• wherein the second information includes information for selecting, based on a first default value, one of straight driving and left-turn driving when the vehicle is travelling on a straight and left-turn lane, and includes information for selecting, based on a second default value, one of straight driving and right-turn driving when the vehicle is travelling on a straight and right-turn lane,
• when information on a particular section, in which a two-lane road is narrowed to a one-lane road, is acquired, obtaining information on a current location of the vehicle;
• and controlling the vehicle to change a current driving lane of the vehicle before appearance of the particular section;
• when a parked vehicle is recognized as a new obstacle, determining a new driving route for avoiding the parked vehicle;
• and moving to a next lane or moving aside by half of an original lane and then returning to the original lane,
• wherein the determining the driving state and the driving speed comprises:
• in response to acquiring information on a speed bump on the one-lane road, acquiring information about riding comfort during passing through the speed bump by analyzing vibration data while the vehicle passes the speed bump at different speeds;
• and determining an optimal speed based on the information about riding comfort,
• wherein the determining the driving state and the driving speed further comprise:
• receiving a user input to input a destination of the vehicle;
• generating the driving route including a moving route to the destination of the vehicle, the target speed according to the attribute of the road, a lane used in the moving route, whether to change a lane, and whether to control a turn signal lamp of the vehicle;
• and
• setting, based on map information, the driving route not to turn the turn signal lamp on when the vehicle is driving toward a first road of a five-way intersection, that is recognized as a straight direction in the five-way intersection, and setting, based on the map information, the driving route to turn a left turn signal lamp on when the vehicle is driving toward a second road of the five-way intersection,
• wherein the generating of the driving control command comprises:
• further storing, in the local information, information on a chance of emergence of a specific moving object in the predetermined region, and information on a type and a weight of a sensor to be used for autonomous driving in the predetermined region;
• determining the type and the weight of the sensor to be used in the predetermined region based on the local information;
• and
• adjusting a determination result on the specific moving object recognized in the predetermined region, based on the information related to the chance of emergence of the specific moving object in the predetermined region,
• wherein the acquiring of the local information comprises:
• collecting information constituting the local information through test driving on the road of the predetermined region;
• generating and storing the local information based on the collected information;
• generating the local information by collecting information resulting from the test driving for each vehicle type;
• and
• newly generating or adjusting the local information for each type of vehicle based on specification information of the vehicle having performed the test driving in consideration of differences from specifications of other types of vehicles, and
• wherein the collecting of the information comprises:
• collecting information related to the moving object in the predetermined region;
• recognizing an object from a driving image acquired during driving of the vehicle;
• determining the type of the recognized object;
• and
• determining whether the recognized object is noise on the basis of size information allowed for the type of the object at a position where the recognized object is recognized.