Moving object controlling device, moving object controlling method, and computer readable medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10899361-B2
Application number	US-201616303069-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 2, 2016
Priority date	Jun 2, 2016
Publication date	Jan 26, 2021
Grant date	Jan 26, 2021

Abstract

A moving object controlling device ( 10 ) determines, when malfunction of an instrument such as a processor ( 11 ) mounted in a moving object ( 100 ) is specified, control contents with respect to the moving object ( 100 ) according to malfunction contents such as a level of the specified malfunction and a peripheral situation of the moving object ( 100 ) such as a movement place of the moving object ( 100 ) and a movement environment that influences movement of the moving object ( 100 ). Then, the moving object controlling device ( 10 ) controls the moving object ( 100 ) according to the determined control contents.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A moving object controlling device comprising:
processing circuitry to:
load only a table corresponding to a movement environment of a moving object from among malfunction handling tables, which are prepared respectively for a plurality of movement environments that influence movement of the moving object and in which movement paths are set, the movement paths being set according to malfunction contents of an instrument mounted in the moving object and a movement place where the moving object moves, and
when malfunction of the instrument mounted in the moving object is specified, determine a movement path of the moving object by reading out the movement path corresponding to malfunction contents of the specified malfunction and the movement place from the loaded table; and
control at least one of acceleration, steering, and braking of the moving object according to the determined movement path.

2. The moving object controlling device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry determines, according to the malfunction contents, the movement environment, and the movement place, control contents of the instrument the malfunction of which is specified.

3. The moving object controlling device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry determines a notification method of the malfunction to a driver of the moving object according to the malfunction contents, the movement environment, and the movement place.

4. The moving object controlling device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the malfunction handling tables are prepared respectively for the plurality of movement environments and a plurality of types of malfunction contents, and
the processing circuitry specifies a table corresponding to the malfunction contents of the specified malfunction among tables that have been loaded, and reads out the movement path corresponding to the movement place from the specified table.

5. The moving object controlling device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry deletes a table not corresponding to the movement environment of the moving object among tables that have been loaded.

6. The moving object controlling device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of movement environments include: a surrounding peculiar state in which traffic regulation or a situation with a roadway being filled with people has occurred, an emergency state in which an accident or a disaster has occurred, a driving difficult state in which a bad road surface and poor visibility has occurred, and a normal state in which none of the surrounding peculiar state, the emergency state, and the driving difficult state have occurred, and
the processing circuitry loads a table corresponding to a state that matches the movement environment of the moving object among the surrounding peculiar state, the emergency state, the driving difficult state, and the normal state.

7. A moving object controlling method comprising:
loading only a table corresponding to a movement environment of a moving object among malfunction handling tables, which are prepared for a plurality of movement environments that influence movement of the moving object and in which movement paths are set, the movement paths being set according to malfunction contents of an instrument mounted in the moving object and a movement place where the moving object moves, and
when malfunction of the instrument mounted in the moving object is specified, determining a movement path of the moving object by reading out the movement path corresponding to malfunction contents of the specified malfunction and the movement place from the loaded table; and
controlling at least one of acceleration, steering, and braking of the moving object according to the determined movement path.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a moving object controlling program causing a computer to execute:
malfunction handling processing of
loading only a table corresponding to a movement environment of a moving object from among malfunction handling tables, which are prepared respectively for a plurality of movement environments that influences movement of the moving object and in which movement paths are set, the movement paths being set according to malfunction contents of an instrument mounted in the moving object and a movement place where the moving object moves, and
when malfunction of the instrument mounted in the moving object is specified, determining a movement path of the moving object by reading out the movement path corresponding to malfunction contents of the specified malfunction and the movement place from the loaded table; and

control processing of controlling at least one of acceleration, steering, and braking of the moving object according to control contents determined by the malfunction handling processing.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Miyauchi Nobuhito
• Okabe Ryo
• Higashiyama Tomohiko

Classifications

• B60W50/14

  Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention · CPC title

• B60W50/035 Primary

  Bringing the control units into a predefined state, e.g. giving priority to particular actuators · CPC title

• B60W2555/60

  Traffic rules, e.g. speed limits or right of way · CPC title

• B60W2050/0026

  Lookup tables or parameter maps · CPC title

• G05D1/0088

  characterized by the autonomous decision making process, e.g. artificial intelligence, predefined behaviours (using knowledge based models G06N5/00) · CPC title