Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving systems are beginning to use a sensing system to monitor driver state when a vehicle is being driven autonomously or near autonomously (semi-autonomously). These systems need to monitor the driver to ensure that the driver state is appropriate for the driving mode. Examples include built-in steering and torque sensors to estimate driver input, steering wheel touch sensors to check for presence of a driver's hand on the steering wheel for lane keeping assistance and similar functions, and camera monitoring to ensure the driver state is sufficiently attentive for the hands-free driving condition, i.e., the driver is not sleeping or taking eyes off the road for more than a stipulated interval.
However, each one of these sensing systems has limitations when transitioning from automated driving to manual driving. If the transition was not the intent of the driver, then a safety hazard is created as the system would have relinquished control to a human who is not ready to take over. Consider an application where built-in steering system torque & position sensors are used to detect driver input as a signal to override autonomous control and transition to manual control. If in this situation something other than the driver's hands were the source of steering input (e.g., the driver's knee contacted the steering wheel), then the system could end up transitioning to manual driving contrary to the driver's intent, thus creating a hazard.
A system for sensor fusion for autonomous driving transition control includes a sensor fusion module and a decision making module. The sensor fusion module fuses a plurality of steering sensor data from one or more sensors of a steering system with a plurality of driver state data from a plurality of driver state sensors as a plurality of fused state data aligned in time. The decision making module determines whether to transition from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode based on the fused state data.
A steering system includes one or more sensors operable to produce a plurality of steering sensor data, a plurality of driver state sensors operable to produce a plurality of driver state data, a steering actuator motor, and a control module. The control module is operable to operate the steering actuator motor in an autonomous driving mode and in a manual driving mode. The control module is further operable to fuse the steering sensor data with the driver state data as a plurality of fused state data aligned in time and determine whether to transition from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode based on the fused state data.
A method for sensor fusion for autonomous driving transition control includes acquiring, by a control module, a plurality of steering sensor data from one or more sensors of a steering system and acquiring a plurality of driver state data from a plurality of driver state sensors. The steering sensor data are fused with the driver state data as a plurality of fused state data aligned in time. The control module determines whether to transition from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode based on the fused state data.
These and other advantages and features will become more apparent from the following description taken in conjunction with the drawings.
The subject matter which is regarded as the invention is particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the claims at the conclusion of the specification. The foregoing and other features, and advantages of the invention are apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
Referring now to the Figures, where the invention will be described with reference to specific embodiments, without limiting the same, an exemplary embodiment of a vehicle 10 including a steering system 12 is illustrated. In various embodiments, the steering system 12 includes a handwheel 14 coupled to a steering shaft 16. In the exemplary embodiment shown, the steering system 12 is an electric power steering (EPS) system that further includes a steering assist unit 18 that couples to the steering shaft 16 of the steering system 12 and to a left tie rod 20 and a right tie rod 22 of the vehicle 10. It should be noted that the steering system 12 may be a rack assist EPS (REPS) as well. The steering assist unit 18 includes, for example, a rack and pinion steering mechanism (not shown) that may be coupled through the steering shaft 16 to a steering actuator motor 19 and gearing. During operation, as the handwheel 14 is turned by a vehicle operator, the steering actuator motor 19 provides the assistance to move the left tie rod 20 and the right tie rod 22 which in turn moves left and right steering knuckles 24, 26, respectively. The left knuckle 24 is coupled to a left roadway wheel 28, and the right knuckle 26 is coupled to a right roadway wheel 30 of the vehicle 10.
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A control module 40 controls the operation of the steering system 12 based on one or more of the sensor signals and further based on the steering control systems and methods of the present disclosure. The control module 40 generates a command signal to control the steering actuator motor 19 of the steering system 12 based on one or more of the inputs and further based on the steering control systems and methods of the present disclosure. The steering control systems and methods of the present disclosure fuse state data aligned in time for two or more of the sensors 31-36 to determine whether to transition from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode based on the fused state data. The control module 40 can be embodied in one or more controllers. It will be appreciated that such a system is capable of operating in both an autonomous state and in a manual driving mode, the overall vehicle system that is capable of operating in both states being a semi-autonomous vehicle.
Inputs to the control module 40 may be generated from the sensors 31-36 (
The recent data store 106 can hold a buffer of recently acquired values of the fused state data 114, for instance, a most recent 200 millisecond data fusion period. The history data store 108 collects older values of the fused state data 114 than collected in the recent data store 106, for instance, a 200 millisecond to a five second data fusion period. In some embodiments, the recent data store 106 can hold values of the fused state data 114 for a most recent 100 millisecond data fusion period, and the history data store 108 collects values of the fused state data 114 older than 100 milliseconds. Alternate data timing splits between the recent data store 106 and the history data store 108 are contemplated in other embodiments. In some embodiments, the recent data store 106 and the history data store 108 are combined in a single shared buffer, such as a circular buffer, where a first set of pointers identifies the locations of the recent data store 106 and a second set of pointers identifies the locations of the history data store 108.
The decision making module 104 determines whether to transition from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode as a mode command 124 based on the fused state data 114. In embodiments, the decision making module 104 can average multiple samples of the fused state data 114 from the history data store 108 as time-averaged fused state data and determine whether to transition from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode based on the fused state data 114 from the recent data store 106 in combination with the time-averaged fused state data. For example, transition criteria 126 can define a truth table to cover use cases for the recent data store 106 in combination with the history data store 108 to determine an action taken, such as a change of state of the mode command 124 (e.g., transition to manual driving mode). Time-averaged fused state data of the history data store 108 can be used as a baseline state to filter noise, and relative changes of the fused state data 114 from the recent data store 106 can indicate a likely transition request. For instance, a combination of state values of body position, face/head position, eye gaze, hand position, EPS input sensed from EPS torque 116 and/or EPS position 118 can be determined from both the recent data store 106 and the history data store 108 to interpret driver intent in making the decision to relinquish automatic control and transition to manual steering. A combination of a straight body position and/or a straight face/head position and/or an on-road eye gaze and/or an on-wheel hand position, and a sensed EPS input can confirm that the driver is ready to transition from automatic control to manual control. In another embodiment, a weighted average Alert index=w1×body boolean+w2×face/head position boolean+w3×eye gaze boolean+w4×hands on wheel boolean, where the weighted average Alert index can be passed through a low pass filter. If automatic control is not relinquished soon enough, the driver may be opposed with excess efforts by the steering system 12, resulting in increased difficulty in manually controlling steering of the vehicle 10. To ensure that control is not erroneously relinquished, an autonomous driving transition confirmation process can also be performed as further described herein.
While the invention has been described in detail in connection with only a limited number of embodiments, it should be readily understood that the invention is not limited to such disclosed embodiments. Rather, the invention can be modified to incorporate any number of variations, alterations, substitutions or equivalent arrangements not heretofore described, but which are commensurate with the spirit and scope of the invention. Additionally, while various embodiments of the invention have been described, it is to be understood that aspects of the invention may include only some of the described embodiments. Accordingly, the invention is not to be seen as limited by the foregoing description.
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