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US 2020/0401150 A1Published application
Autonomous transportation vehicle image augmentation
AssigneesVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Audi AG, Porsche AG
InventorsXinwei GONG, Sai Prasad NOOKA
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Abstract
Devices, systems, and methods related to autonomous transportation vehicle operation may include image augmentation arrangements for training and/or evaluating autonomous operations. Such augmentations may include artificial impressions of driving conditions which can prompt recovery operations.
Claims31
An autonomous transportation vehicle, comprising:
- a vehicle base including a chassis and a drive system, the drive system comprising a steering system for providing lateral steering adjustment of the vehicle base and a drive train coupled with the chassis to provide propulsion of the vehicle base;
- an image capture device coupled with the vehicle base to capture images during operation of the autonomous transportation vehicle;
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- means for conducting shadow mode autonomous guidance of the guidance system including generating simulated autonomous guidance of the drive system while a human driver conducts actual guidance of the drive system, for determining shadow mode autonomous guidance operations, for receiving one or more captured images from the image capture device indicating an actual course of travel of the autonomous transportation vehicle, for augmenting at least one of the one or more captured images to impose an artificial perception of a shadow mode course of travel corresponding to actualization of the shadow mode autonomous guidance of the drive system, for determining a remedial course of travel for returning to the actual course of travel from the shadow mode course of travel, and for determining at least one revision to the instructions based on the remedial course of travel to train the control system according to the artificial perception.
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A method of operating an autonomous transportation vehicle, the method comprising:
- operating a control system to conduct shadow mode autonomous guidance of the autonomous transportation vehicle as a simulated autonomous guidance of the autonomous transportation vehicle while a human driver conducts actual guidance of the autonomous transportation vehicle;
- capturing one or more images during actual guidance of the autonomous transportation vehicle indicating an actual course of travel of the autonomous transportation vehicle;
- augmenting at least one of the captured images to impose an artificial perception of a shadow mode course of travel of the autonomous transportation vehicle corresponding to actualization of the shadow mode autonomous guidance of the autonomous transportation vehicle;
- determining a remedial course of guidance for returning to the actual course of travel from the shadow mode course of travel;
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- developing at least one revision of instructions stored on a memory for execution by a processor to conduct shadow mode autonomous guidance of the autonomous transportation vehicle based on the remedial course of guidance to train the control system according to the artificial perception.
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An autonomous transportation vehicle, comprising:
- a vehicle base including a chassis and a drive system, the drive system comprising a lateral guidance apparatus for providing steering of the vehicle base and a drive train coupled with the chassis to provide propulsion to the vehicle base;
- an image capture device coupled with the vehicle base to capture images during operation of the autonomous transportation vehicle;
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- a control system for providing autonomous guidance of the drive system, the control system including at least one processor for executing instructions stored on a memory for conducting drive system operations autonomously, wherein the control system is configured to receive one or more images from the image capture device indicating an actual course of travel of the autonomous transportation vehicle, to augment at least one of the one or more images to impose an artificial perception of an augmented course of travel of the autonomous transportation vehicle, to determine a remedial course of travel for returning to the actual course of travel from the augmented course of travel, and to determine at least revision of the instructions based on the remedial course of travel to train the control system according to the artificial perception.
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A method of training an autonomous transportation vehicle control system, comprising:
- capturing one or more images by an image capture apparatus,
- augmenting at least one of the captured images to impose an artificial perception, and
- determining at least one revision of a set of instructions for conducting autonomous operations according to the artificial perception.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.