Location-based vehicle operation
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsKeith Weston, Brendan F. Diamond, Kenneth James Boyd
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Abstract
Upon determining that a vehicle is operating at an off-road location, a control parameter for the vehicle can be adjusted to compensate for data from a vehicle sensor affected by operating at the off-road location. The vehicle can then be operated at the off-road location according to the adjusted control parameter.
Claims20
A system, comprising a computer including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
- determine that a vehicle is operating at an off-road location by comparing a sensed vehicle location to stored map data specifying the off-road location to determine that the vehicle location is the off-road location;
- determine a location classification of the off-road location based on map data for the off-road location;
- identify vehicle sensors affected by operating the vehicle at the off-road location;
- identify vehicle control parameters governed by data collected from respective ones of the vehicle sensors affected by operating the vehicle at the off-road location;
- determine vehicle control parameters for the location classification of the off-road location;
- adjust the vehicle control parameters to compensate for the data collected from the respective vehicle sensors affected by operating at the off-road location;
- adjust the vehicle control parameters based on the determined location classification of the off-road location;
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- operate the vehicle at the off-road location according to the adjusted control parameters.
A method, comprising:
- determining that a vehicle is operating at an off-road location by comparing a sensed vehicle location to stored map data specifying the off-road location to determine that the vehicle location is the off-road location;
- determining a location classification of the off-road location based on map data for the off-road location;
- identifying vehicle sensors affected by operating the vehicle at the off-road location;
- identifying vehicle control parameters governed by data collected from respective ones of the vehicle sensors affected by operating the vehicle at the off-road location;
- determining vehicle control parameters for the location classification of the off-road location;
- adjusting the vehicle control parameters to compensate for the data collected from the respective vehicle sensors affected by operating at the off-road location;
- adjusting the vehicle control parameters based on the determined location classification of the off-road location;
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- operating the vehicle at the off-road location according to the adjusted control parameters.
A system, comprising a computer including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
- determine that a vehicle is operating at an off-road location;
- adjust a lane-keeping parameter for the vehicle to compensate for data from a vehicle sensor affected by operating at the off-road location including adjusting a pattern recognition algorithm of a lane-keeping system to compensate for the off-road location by recognizing hazards of the off-road location;
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- operate the vehicle at the off-road location according to the adjusted control parameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.