US 2020/0369294 A1 · AUTONOMOUS DRIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD

Abstract

An autonomous driving apparatus and method, in which the apparatus includes a sensor unit detecting a surrounding vehicle around an ego vehicle that autonomously travels, an output unit, a memory storing map information, and a processor controlling the autonomous driving of the ego vehicle based on the map information. The processor is configured to generate an actual driving trajectory and expected driving trajectory of the surrounding vehicle based on driving information of the surrounding vehicle detected by the sensor unit and the map information, determine whether a driving mode of the surrounding vehicle is an autonomous driving mode and an autonomous driving risk of the ego vehicle based on a trajectory error between the actual driving trajectory and expected driving trajectory of the surrounding vehicle, and output a warning to a passenger through the output unit at a level corresponding to the determined autonomous driving risk.

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An autonomous driving apparatus comprising:

a sensor unit configured to detect a surrounding vehicle around an ego vehicle that autonomously travels;
an output unit;
a memory configured to store map information;
and
a processor configured to control the autonomous driving of the ego vehicle based on the map information stored in the memory,
wherein the processor is configured to:
generate an actual driving trajectory and expected driving trajectory of the surrounding vehicle based on driving information of the surrounding vehicle detected by the sensor unit and the map information stored in the memory;
determine whether a driving mode of the surrounding vehicle is an autonomous driving mode and an autonomous driving risk of the ego vehicle based on a trajectory error between the actual driving trajectory and expected driving trajectory of the surrounding vehicle;
and
output a warning to a passenger through the output unit at a level corresponding to the determined autonomous driving risk.

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An autonomous driving method comprising:

controlling, by a processor, autonomous driving of an ego vehicle based on map information stored in a memory;
generating, by the processor, an actual driving trajectory and expected driving trajectory of a surrounding vehicle around the ego vehicle based on driving information of the surrounding vehicle detected by a sensor unit and the map information stored in the memory;
and
determining, by the processor, whether a driving mode of the surrounding vehicle is an autonomous driving mode and an autonomous driving risk of the ego vehicle based on a trajectory error between the actual driving trajectory and expected driving trajectory of the surrounding vehicle, and outputting a warning to a passenger through an output unit at a level corresponding to the determined autonomous driving risk.

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