Method of selecting a route for recording vehicle

US12276511B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG · BB

Inventors

• Michael Arnold · Düsseldorf, DE
• Sönke Behrends · Düsseldorf, DE
• Peet Cremer · Düsseldorf, DE
• Dennis Mueller · Wellington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 18, 2022
• Grant date: Apr 15, 2025
• Expiry date: Jul 27, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07C5/008
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disclosed are aspects of a method, carried out by a vehicle data recording device, that includes downloading, from a host data collecting system, a recording target and determining a plurality of possible routes for the vehicle. The method also includes, for each route, generating a route encoding in numerical values an information on predicted values of the route for metrics, a metric being a function assigning a value representing an amount of progress in achieving an elementary recording target to a piece of data. The method additionally includes providing the route encodings and additional environmental information independent of the routes to a reinforcement learning agent that selects one of the routes to optimize a reward. The method further includes recording data from in-vehicle sources while the vehicle drives along the selected route and uploading at least part of the recording data to the host data collecting system.