Autonomous emergency braking (aeb) with occupant states input for autonomous or assisted driving vehicles

A data processing system of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV), comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations including:
• measuring, based on a current velocity of the ADV, a time to impact from an object in a course of a current trajectory of the ADV;
• measuring a physical state of an occupant carried by the ADV;
• computing, by a deceleration arbitration processing device, a rate of deceleration based on the time to impact and a physical change to the physical state of the occupant to be caused by the rate of deceleration;
• and
• decelerating the ADV at the rate of deceleration.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• measuring, based on a current velocity of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV), a time to impact from an object in a course of a current trajectory of the ADV;
• measuring a physical state of an occupant carried by the ADV;
• computing, by a deceleration arbitration processing device, a rate of deceleration based on the time to impact and a physical change to the physical state of the occupant to be caused by the rate of deceleration;
• and
• decelerating the ADV at the rate of deceleration.