Vehicle remote instruction system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSho Otaki, Takayuki Iwamoto
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Abstract
In a vehicle remote instruction system, a remote commander issues a remote instruction relating to travel of an autonomous driving vehicle based on sensor information from an external sensor that detects an external environment of the autonomous driving vehicle. The vehicle remote instruction system sets a range of information to be transmitted to the remote commander among the sensor information detected by the external sensor, as a limited information range, based on the external situation or an external situation obtained based on map information and a trajectory of the autonomous driving vehicle.
Claims10
A vehicle control device configured to recognize an external situation based on captured images from cameras including a front camera that captures an image in a front direction of a vehicle, a right camera that includes in an image capturing region, a region more toward a right direction than an image capturing region of the front camera, a left camera that includes in an image capturing region, a region more toward a left direction than the image capturing region of the front camera, and a rear camera that captures an image in a rear direction of the vehicle, and configured to control travel of the vehicle by a remote instruction relating to the travel of the vehicle provided from a remote commander, the vehicle control device comprising an electronic control unit configured to:
- transmit to the remote commander the captured image of the front camera among the captured images captured by the cameras when an obstacle is present on a traveling route of the vehicle;
- not transmit to the remote commander at least one of the captured images of the right camera, the left camera, and the rear camera;
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- upon detection of the obstacle, select the image of the front camera to be transmitted as data to the remote commander and not select at least one of the images from the rear camera, the right camera, and the left camera.
A vehicle control method performed by a vehicle control device configured to recognize an external situation based on captured images from cameras including a front camera that captures an image in a front direction of a vehicle, a right camera that includes in an image capturing region, a region more toward a right direction than an image capturing region of the front camera, a left camera that includes in an image capturing region, a region more toward a left direction than the image capturing region of the front camera, and a rear camera that captures an image in a rear direction of the vehicle, and configured to control travel of the vehicle by a remote instruction relating to the travel of the vehicle provided from a remote commander, the vehicle control method comprising:
- transmitting to the remote commander the captured image of the front camera among the captured images captured by the cameras when an obstacle is present on a traveling route of the vehicle;
- not transmitting to the remote commander at least one of the captured images of the right camera, the left camera, and the rear camera;
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- upon detection of the obstacle, selecting the image of the front camera to be transmitted as data to the remote commander and not selecting at least one of the images from the rear camera, the right camera, and the left camera.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium configured to store a vehicle control program operating an electronic control unit of a vehicle control device configured to recognize an external situation based on captured images from cameras including a front camera that captures an image in a front direction of a vehicle, a right camera that includes in an image capturing region, a region more toward a right direction than an image capturing region of the front camera, a left camera that includes in an image capturing region, a region more toward a left direction than the image capturing region of the front camera, and a rear camera that captures an image in a rear direction of the vehicle, and configured to control travel of the vehicle by a remote instruction relating to the travel of the vehicle provided from a remote commander,
- wherein the vehicle control program operates the electronic control unit as an electronic control unit configured to:
- transmit to the remote commander the captured image of the front camera among the captured images captured by the cameras when an obstacle is present on a traveling route of the vehicle;
- not transmit to the remote commander at least one of the captured images of the right camera, the left camera, and the rear camera;
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- upon detection of the obstacle, select the image of the front camera to be transmitted as data to the remote commander and not select at least one of the images from the rear camera, the right camera, and the left camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.