Systems for autonomous vehicle route selection and execution

US10331141B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC · US

Inventors

• Donald K. Grimm · Utica, US
• Fan Bai · Ann Arbor, US
• Jenne-Tai Wang · Troy, US
• Bing Deng · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 2016
• Grant date: Jun 25, 2019
• Expiry date: Sep 2, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60W2556/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for determining and executing an autonomous-vehicle vehicle travel route, including a hardware-based processing unit and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The storage medium includes an input-interface module that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit, obtains factor data indicating factors relevant to determining a vehicle travel route. The storage medium also includes a route-generation module comprising a route-complexity sub-module. The route-complexity sub-module determines, based on the factor data, route-complexity indexes corresponding to respective optional routes. The route-generation module determines the vehicle travel route based on the route-complexity indexes. The storage in various embodiments includes other sub-modules associated with other elements, such as autonomous-driving safety, comfort, stress, pollution, scenery, or infrastructure-accessibility, for determining and executing an autonomous-driving travel route. In some embodiments, the storage includes an autonomous-driving perceptions module and an autonomous-driving control module for modifying vehicle functions in executing the autonomous-driving travel route.