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US 9,849,883 B2Granted
Off-road autonomous driving
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsJianbo Lu, Davor David Hrovat, Hongtei Eric Tseng
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Abstract
A vehicle system includes a processor with access to a memory storing instructions executable by the processor. The instructions include determining whether an autonomous host vehicle can traverse an environmental obstacle, and if the autonomous host vehicle can traverse the environmental obstacle, controlling an active suspension system in accordance with the environmental obstacle and controlling the autonomous host vehicle to traverse the environmental obstacle.
Claims18
A vehicle system comprising:
- a processor with access to a memory storing instructions executable by the processor, the instructions including:
- determining whether an autonomous host vehicle can traverse an environmental obstacle;
- and
- if the autonomous host vehicle can traverse the environmental obstacle:
- controlling an active suspension system in accordance with the environmental obstacle, and
- controlling the autonomous host vehicle to traverse the environmental obstacle;
- determining whether passengers should exit the autonomous host vehicle prior to the autonomous host vehicle traversing the environmental obstacle;
- and
- generating an alert if the passengers should exit the autonomous host vehicle prior to the autonomous host vehicle traversing the environmental obstacle.
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A vehicle system comprising:
- a sensor that detects an environmental obstacle and outputs an obstacle detection signal representing a presence of the environmental obstacle;
- and
- a processor programmed to receive the environmental obstacle detection signal, determining whether an autonomous host vehicle can traverse the environmental obstacle, and
- if the autonomous host vehicle can traverse the environmental obstacle:
- control an active suspension system in accordance with the environmental obstacle, and
- control the autonomous host vehicle to traverse the environmental obstacle;
- wherein the processor is further programmed to determine whether passengers should exit the autonomous host vehicle prior to the autonomous host vehicle traversing the environmental obstacle.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a sensor signal representing a presence of an environmental obstacle;
- determining that an autonomous host vehicle can traverse an environmental obstacle;
- controlling an active suspension system in accordance with the environmental obstacle, and
- controlling the autonomous host vehicle to traverse the environmental obstacle;
- determining whether passengers should exit the autonomous host vehicle prior to the autonomous host vehicle traversing the environmental obstacle;
- and
- generating an alert if the passengers should exit the autonomous host vehicle prior to the autonomous host vehicle traversing the environmental obstacle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.