Anticipatory vehicle seat actuation
AssigneeGhost Autonomy Inc.
InventorsVolkmar Uhlig, Mario Delgado, Par Botes
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Abstract
Anticipatory vehicle seat actuation, including: determining, based on sensor data capturing an environment around a vehicle, a predicted environmental state corresponding to a future time and comprising the vehicle entering a turn; determining, based on the predicted environmental state, an actuation state for one or more ECUs controlling a seat state the vehicle; and configuring the seat state of the vehicle according to the actuation state before the future time.
Claims19
A method for anticipatory vehicle ECU actuation, the method comprising:
- determining, based on sensor data capturing an environment around a vehicle, a predicted environmental state corresponding to a future time and comprising the vehicle entering a turn;
- determining, based on the predicted environmental state, an actuation state for one or more ECUs controlling a seat state the vehicle;
- determining that a difference between a current degree of actuation for an ECU of the one or more ECUs and a degree of actuation described in the actuation state for the ECU exceeds a threshold;
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- configuring the seat state of the vehicle according to the actuation state before the future time and based on timing criteria defining when to configure the seat state of the vehicle, wherein configuring the seat state comprises, in response to the difference exceeding the threshold, modifying the degree of actuation described in the actuation state for the ECU, thereby reducing the difference between the current degree of actuation and the degree of actuation state described in the actuation state for the ECU.
An apparatus comprising at least one processor and memory storing instructions, that when executed, cause the apparatus to perform steps comprising:
- determining, based on sensor data capturing an environment around a vehicle, a predicted environmental state corresponding to a future time and comprising the vehicle entering a turn;
- determining, based on the predicted environmental state, an actuation state for one or more ECUs controlling a seat state the vehicle;
- determining that a difference between a current degree of actuation for an ECU of the one or more ECUs and a degree of actuation described in the actuation state for the ECU exceeds a threshold;
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- configuring the seat state of the vehicle according to the actuation state before the future time and based on timing criteria defining when to configure the seat state of the vehicle, wherein configuring the seat state comprises, in response to the difference exceeding the threshold, modifying the degree of actuation described in the actuation state for the ECU, thereby reducing the difference between the current degree of actuation and the degree of actuation state described in the actuation state for the ECU.
A computer program product disposed upon a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system of an autonomous vehicle, cause the computing system to perform steps comprising:
- determining, based on sensor data capturing an environment around a vehicle, a predicted environmental state corresponding to a future time and comprising the vehicle entering a turn;
- determining, based on the predicted environmental state, an actuation state for one or more ECUs controlling a seat state the vehicle;
- determining that a difference between a current degree of actuation for an ECU of the one or more ECUs and a degree of actuation described in the actuation state for the ECU exceeds a threshold;
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- configuring the seat state of the vehicle according to the actuation state before the future time and based on timing criteria defining when to configure the seat state of the vehicle, wherein configuring the seat state comprises, in response to the difference exceeding the threshold, modifying the degree of actuation described in the actuation state for the ECU, thereby reducing the difference between the current degree of actuation and the degree of actuation state described in the actuation state for the ECU.
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