Rest conducive automated vehicle operation
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsAlec M. Wuorinen, Craig Thomas Douglas, Matthew Edward Gilbert-Eyres, Eric T. Hosey, Russell A. Patenaude
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Abstract
A method for operating a vehicle includes entering a rest mode and altering at least one vehicle condition to be more conductive to rest. The method identifies a body position of a first passenger and determines a first body vector from the body position to a first vehicle reference point. The method determines a travel route configured to minimize at least one rest disruption factor based at least in part on the first body vector and initiates the determined travel route.
Claims18
A method for operating a vehicle comprising:
- entering a rest mode and altering at least one vehicle condition to be more conducive to rest;
- identifying a body position of a first passenger and determining a first vector from the body position to a first vehicle reference point, the first vector being a quantity including a size and a direction;
- determining a travel route configured to minimize at least one rest disruption factor based at least in part on the first vector identifying a plurality of potential travel routes, identifying an estimated force vector of each turn of each potential travel route in the plurality of potential travel routes, and selecting the travel route from the plurality of potential travel routes based at least in part on a total opposing force vector between the force vectors of each potential travel route and the first vector;
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- initiating the determined travel route.
A vehicle comprising:
- a controller having at least one automated vehicle operation system configured to cause the controller to perform a method including the steps of
- entering a rest mode and altering at least one vehicle condition to be more conducive to rest;
- identifying a body position of a first passenger and determining a first vector from the body position to a first vehicle reference point, the first vector being a quantity including a size and a direction;
- determining a travel route configured to minimize at least one rest disruption factor based at least in part on the first vector by at least identifying a plurality of potential travel routes, identifying an estimated force vector of each turn of each potential travel route in the plurality of potential travel routes, and selecting the travel route from the plurality of potential travel routes based at least in part on a total opposing force vector between the force vectors of each potential travel route and the first vector;
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- initiating the determined travel route.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.