Drive Mode Selection
AssigneeNissan North America, Inc.
InventorsKevin Poulet, Aude Laurent, Najamuddin Mirza Baig
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Abstract
Navigating a vehicle from an origin location to a destination location includes receiving, from a requester, the origin location and the destination location; determining a transition point between the origin location and the destination location that partitions a portion of a route between the origin location to the destination location into a first route segment and a second route segment; and providing the transition point, the first route segment, and the second route segment to the requester. The vehicle is to be driven according to a first drive mode in the first route segment that ends at the transition point and according to a second drive mode in the second route segment that starts at the transition point.
Claims20
A method for navigating a vehicle from an origin location to a destination location, comprising:
- receiving, from a requester, the origin location and the destination location;
- determining a transition point between the origin location and the destination location that partitions a portion of a route between the origin location to the destination location into a first route segment and a second route segment,
- wherein the vehicle is to be driven according to a first drive mode in the first route segment that ends at the transition point and the vehicle is to be driven according to a second drive mode in the second route segment that starts at the transition point,
- wherein the first drive mode is different from the second drive mode, and
- wherein the first drive mode and the second drive mode are selected from available drive modes, each of the available drive modes indicating a respective way of operating the vehicle;
- and
- providing the transition point, the first route segment, and the second route segment to the requester.
A system for routing a vehicle from an origin location to a destination location, comprising:
- a drive-mode selector configured to:
- receive the origin location and the destination location;
- determine transition points between the origin location and the destination location, wherein the transition points partition a route between the origin location and the destination location into route segments;
- and
- determine respective drive modes for the route segments;
- and
- a vehicle-control module configured to:
- control the vehicle according to the respective drive modes in the route segments.
An apparatus for routing a vehicle from an origin location to a destination location, comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- receive, from the vehicle, a request to determine a route from the origin location to the destination location;
- determine the route from the origin location to the destination location by partitioning the route into route segments and assigning respective drive modes to the route segments, wherein the route segments and the respective drive modes are selected based on availability of mapping data of the route segments;
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- provide, to the vehicle, the route segments and the respective drive modes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.