Apparatus and method for choosing priority control object, and apparatus for controlling object

A method for choosing a priority control object, comprising:

• estimating a movement path of a moving body of a plurality of controllable bodies, each controllable body configured to move independently of each other controllable body;
• predicting an accident scenario which can occur on the movement path, the accident scenario involving each of the plurality of controllable objects;
• calculating a first risk associated with an accident occurrence likelihood of each of the plurality of controllable objects based on the accident scenario;
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• assuming a second risk associated with a damage scale of the moving body or an environmental loss value, the environmental loss value depending on a damage to an environment associated with the moving body, the accident scenario, or both;
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• choosing a priority control object to be controlled from among the plurality of controllable bodies by synthesizing the first risk and the second risk of each of the plurality of controllable bodies or synthesizing the first risk and a weighted second risk calculated by applying a weight to the second risk.

An apparatus for controlling an object, comprising:

• a path estimating unit configured to estimate a movement path of a moving body of a plurality of controllable bodies, each controllable body configured to move independently of each other controllable body;
• a scenario predicting unit configured to predict an accident scenario which can occur on the movement path, the accident scenario involving each of the plurality of controllable bodies;
• a risk calculating unit configured to calculate a first risk associated with an accident occurrence likelihood of each of the plurality of controllable bodies based on the accident scenario;
• a priority control object choosing unit configured to choose a priority control object from the plurality of controllable bodies using the first risk of each of the plurality of controllable bodies;
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• a moving body controlling unit configured to perform a first control to estimate again the movement paths of all moving bodies of the plurality of controllable bodies based on the current positions of all the moving bodies of the plurality of controllable bodies every predetermined time, perform a second control to calculate again the first risks of all the moving bodies of the plurality of controllable bodies, continuously control all the moving bodies of the plurality of controllable bodies using the result acquired according to the first control and the second control, and to notify, to a controller, a risk calculation result synthetically judged with the result acquired according to the first control and the second control in different warning level and method.