Operation support device, system, non-temporary storage medium, and operation support method
AssigneesToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
InventorsYu Nagata, Keiichi Uno
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Abstract
An operation support device operates a vehicle by autonomous driving. The operation support device includes a control unit that acquires appearance data indicating an appearance history of emergency vehicles for each of a plurality of links forming a route through which the vehicle is expected to pass, predicts, for each of the links, the number of appearances of emergency vehicles while the vehicle is traveling, based on the acquired appearance data, and adjusts an operation plan of the vehicle according to the predicted number of appearances for each of the links.
Claims20
An operation support device that operates a vehicle by autonomous driving, the operation support device comprising:
- a control unit configured to:
- acquire appearance data for a predetermined past time period indicating an appearance history of a plurality of emergency vehicles for each of a plurality of links forming a route through which the vehicle is expected to pass;
- predict, for each of the links of the route, a future number of appearances of at least one emergency vehicle while the vehicle is traveling, based on the acquired appearance data;
- and
- adjust an operation plan of the vehicle according to the predicted number of appearances for each of the links, and control the vehicle to drive autonomously based on the adjusted operation plan.
A non-temporary storage medium storing instructions that are executable by one or more processors that function as an operation support device that operates a vehicle by autonomous driving and that cause the one or more processors to perform functions comprising:
- acquiring appearance data for a predetermined past time period indicating an appearance history of a plurality of emergency vehicles for each of a plurality of links forming a route through which the vehicle is expected to pass;
- predicting, for each of the links of the route, a future number of appearances of at least one emergency vehicle while the vehicle is traveling, based on the acquired appearance data;
- and
- adjusting an operation plan of the vehicle according to the predicted number of appearances for each of the links, and controlling the vehicle to drive autonomously based on the adjusted operation plan.
An operation support method that operates a vehicle by autonomous driving, the operation support method comprising:
- acquiring appearance data for a predetermined past time period indicating an appearance history of a plurality of emergency vehicles for each of a plurality of links forming a route through which the vehicle is expected to pass by a control unit;
- predicting, for each of the links of the route, a future number of appearances of at least one emergency vehicle while the vehicle is traveling, based on the acquired appearance data by the control unit;
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- adjusting an operation plan of the vehicle according to the predicted number of appearances for each of the links by the control unit and controlling the vehicle to drive autonomously based on the adjusted operation plan.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.