Patent Application
20200020228
The present technology relates to an intelligent road infrastructure system providing transportation management and operations and individual vehicle control for connected and automated vehicles (CAV), and, more particularly, to a system providing customized and route-specific operations, control, and services for CAVs according to user origin and destination requests.
Vehicles that are capable of sensing their environment and navigating without or with reduced human input (e.g., autonomous vehicles) are in development. At present, they are in experimental testing and not in widespread commercial use. Existing approaches require expensive and complicated on-board systems, making widespread implementation a substantial challenge.
In some embodiments, the technology provides systems and methods for customized and route-specific operations, control, and services for CAVs according to user origin and destination requests. In some embodiments, the technology is facilitated by CAVH system modules and methods. Specifically, the technology provides vehicles with individually customized information and real-time control instructions for the vehicle, e.g., to fulfill driving tasks (e.g., car following, lane changing, and route guidance). In some embodiments, the individually customized information and real-time control instructions for the vehicle are optimized for a specific route according to user origin and destination requests. In some embodiments, the individually customized information and real-time control instructions are provided for the vehicle to drive on, e.g., freeways and urban arterials.
In some embodiments, the technology comprises a connected automated vehicle highway system and methods and/or components thereof as described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/628,331, filed Jun. 20, 2017 and U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62/626,862, filed Feb. 6, 2018, 62/627,005, filed Feb. 6, 2018, 62/655,651, filed Apr. 10, 2018, and 62/669,215, filed May 9, 2018, the disclosure of each of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety (referred to herein as a CAVH system). In some embodiments, the technology comprises a cloud system as described in U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62/691,391, incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
Also provided herein are methods employing any of the systems described herein for the management of one or more aspects of traffic control. The methods include those processes undertaken by individual participants in the system (e.g., drivers, public or private local, regional, or national transportation facilitators, government agencies, etc.) as well as collective activities of one or more participants working in coordination or independently from each other.
Some portions of this description describe the embodiments of the technology in terms of algorithms and symbolic representations of operations on information. These algorithmic descriptions and representations are commonly used by those skilled in the data processing arts to convey the substance of their work effectively to others skilled in the art. These operations, while described functionally, computationally, or logically, are understood to be implemented by computer programs or equivalent electrical circuits, microcode, or the like. Furthermore, it has also proven convenient at times, to refer to these arrangements of operations as modules, without loss of generality. The described operations and their associated modules may be embodied in software, firmware, hardware, or any combinations thereof.
Certain steps, operations, or processes described herein may be performed or implemented with one or more hardware or software modules, alone or in combination with other devices. In one embodiment, a software module is implemented with a computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium containing computer program code, which can be executed by a computer processor for performing any or all of the steps, operations, or processes described.
Embodiments of the technology may also relate to an apparatus for performing the operations herein. This apparatus may be specially constructed for the required purposes, and/or it may comprise a general-purpose computing device selectively activated or reconfigured by a computer program stored in the computer. Such a computer program may be stored in a non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium, or any type of media suitable for storing electronic instructions, which may be coupled to a computer system bus. Furthermore, any computing systems referred to in the specification may include a single processor or may be architectures employing multiple processor designs for increased computing capability.
Additional embodiments will be apparent to persons skilled in the relevant art based on the teachings contained herein.
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505 & 506. Touch screen. The touch screen is used for input and output. As input, the touch screen provides for text input and command input by touching. As output, the touch screen shows warning messages, explanation messages, and other information (e.g., velocity, location, map, and other output).
To facilitate an understanding of the present technology, a number of terms and phrases are defined below. Additional definitions are set forth throughout the detailed description.
Throughout the specification and claims, the following terms take the meanings explicitly associated herein, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. The phrase “in one embodiment” as used herein does not necessarily refer to the same embodiment, though it may. Furthermore, the phrase “in another embodiment” as used herein does not necessarily refer to a different embodiment, although it may. Thus, as described below, various embodiments of the invention may be readily combined, without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention.
In addition, as used herein, the term “or” is an inclusive “or” operator and is equivalent to the term “and/or” unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. The term “based on” is not exclusive and allows for being based on additional factors not described, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In addition, throughout the specification, the meaning of “a”, “an”, and “the” include plural references. The meaning of “in” includes “in” and “on.”
As used herein, the terms “about”, “approximately”, “substantially”, and “significantly” are understood by persons of ordinary skill in the art and will vary to some extent on the context in which they are used. If there are uses of these terms that are not clear to persons of ordinary skill in the art given the context in which they are used, “about” and “approximately” mean plus or minus less than or equal to 10% of the particular term and “substantially” and “significantly” mean plus or minus greater than 10% of the particular term.
As used herein, the suffix “-free” refers to an embodiment of the technology that omits the feature of the base root of the word to which “-free” is appended. That is, the term “X-free” as used herein means “without X”, where X is a feature of the technology omitted in the “X-free” technology. For example, a “sensing-free” method does not comprise a sensing step, a “controller-free” system does not comprise a controller, etc.
As used herein, the term “support” when used in reference to one or more components of the CAVH system providing support to and/or supporting one or more other components of the CAVH system refers to, e.g., exchange of information and/or data between components and/or levels of the CAVH system, sending and/or receiving instructions between components and/or levels of the CAVH system, and/or other interaction between components and/or levels of the CAVH system that provide functions such as information exchange, data transfer, messaging, and/or alerting.
In some embodiments, the technology provides systems and methods for a system providing customized and route-specific operations, control, and services for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) according to user origin and destination requests, based on connected automated vehicle highway (CAVH) systems which includes an intelligent road infrastructure system providing transportation management and operations and individual vehicle control for CAV.
This application claims priority to U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 62/696,182, filed Jul. 10, 2018, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
| Number | Date | Country | |
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| 62696182 | Jul 2018 | US |
