Method for modelling a navigation environment of a motor vehicle
AssigneeRENAULT s.a.s.
InventorsAlexandre Armand, Javier Ibanez-Guzman
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Abstract
A method models a navigation environment of a vehicle equipped with environment perception structure, with a decision module, and with an autonomous controller for autonomously controlling the vehicle. The method includes defining a global environment model of the vehicle as being a structured set of information constructed from data supplied by the environment perception structure, and receiving, from the decision module, a request for information relating to a decision to be taken to control the vehicle by way of the autonomous controller.
Claims8
A method for modeling a navigation environment of a vehicle equipped with environment perception means, a decision-making module, and autonomous control means for autonomously controlling the vehicle, the method comprising:
- defining an overall environmental model of the vehicle as being a set of structured information constructed from data provided by the environment perception means;
- receiving a request for information relating to a decision to be taken for controlling the vehicle by the autonomous control means, the request being transmitted by the decision-making module and including an item of information specifying a decision-making level from among multiple decision-making levels;
- determining, from among the set of structured information defining the environmental model, a selection of information to be consulted in order to take said decision, the selection of information being dependent upon the item of information specifying the decision-making level that is provided with the request;
- consulting the information from said selection from the overall environmental model;
- determining an integrity index associated with each item of information of said selection;
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- providing said decision-making module with a selective environmental model containing the information from said selection and the corresponding integrity indices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.