System and method for closed-loop driver attention management
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsCharles A. Green, Jeremy A. Salinger, Omer Tsimhoni, Eric L. Raphael
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Abstract
A method and system may manage the driver's attention while driving. The driver may be driving using an autonomous driving system or limited-ability autonomous driving system. A method may detect, by a sensor, characteristics of a driver; determine, based on the detected characteristics of the driver, whether the driver exercises sufficient supervisory control of the vehicle; and provide a series of one or more prompts, wherein each prompt's intrusiveness is related to the determination of whether the driver exercises sufficient supervisory control of the vehicle.
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A method for monitoring awareness of a driver of an autonomously or semi-autonomously driven vehicle, the method comprising:
- providing a control-indicator for indicating at least one of N predetermined levels of supervisory control required by the driver;
- providing a driver-monitoring-system configured to monitor driver attentiveness;
- providing one or more prompts responsively to detection of driver inattentiveness, the prompts implemented as instructions to perform specific acts;
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- initiating a corrective action responsively to detection of non-performance of one or more of the specific acts;
- wherein the specific acts are selected in accordance with the at least one indicated-level, as indicated by the control-indicator.
A system for monitoring awareness of a driver of an autonomously or semi-autonomously driven vehicle, the system comprising:
- a driver-monitoring-system configured to monitor driver attentiveness;
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- a prompting-system configured to provide one or more prompts responsively to detection of driver inattentiveness, the prompts implemented as instructions to perform specific acts;
- a control-indicator configured to indicate at least one of N predetermined levels of supervisory control required by the driver;
- wherein the system is operative to initiate a corrective action responsively to detection of non-performance of one or more of the specific acts;
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- wherein the specific acts are selected in accordance with the at least one indicated-level, as indicated by the control-indicator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.