Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12472940-B2
Application number	US-202318230752-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 7, 2023
Priority date	Aug 10, 2022
Publication date	Nov 18, 2025
Grant date	Nov 18, 2025

Abstract

An information processing device for generating a trajectory of a moving object includes a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions and a processor connected to the storage medium. The processor executes the computer-readable instructions to recognize a travel environment around the moving object, calculate a risk value to be set for a region surrounding a target located in the recognized travel environment, and generate a travel trajectory of the moving object as a travel trajectory along which a plurality of trajectory points are arranged. The trajectory is generated by executing an iterative process and a current travel trajectory is generated by designating a previous travel trajectory generated at a processing timing before a current processing timing as a reference line and offsetting each of the plurality of trajectory points constituting the reference line in a direction normal to the reference line on the basis of the risk value.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An information processing device for generating a trajectory of a moving object, the information processing device comprising:
a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions; and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable instructions to: recognize a travel environment around the moving object; calculate a risk value to be set for a region surrounding a target located in the recognized travel environment; and generate a travel trajectory of the moving object as a travel trajectory along which a plurality of trajectory points are arranged, wherein the travel trajectory is generated by switching between: a first trajectory generation method involving paring each point of a point group constituting a left road marking in the travel environment and each point of a point group constituting a right road marking in the travel environment in order; and a second trajectory generation method of generating a current travel trajectory by designating a previous travel trajectory generated at a processing timing before a current processing timing as a reference line and offsetting each of the plurality of trajectory points constituting the reference line in a direction normal to the reference line on the basis of the risk value.

2 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor generates the current travel trajectory by offsetting each of the plurality of trajectory points constituting the reference line in a direction in which the risk value decreases as the direction normal to the reference line.

3 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the target includes a boundary line of a region where the moving object can travel or a physical object that is likely to come into contact with the moving object.

4 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor causes the moving object to travel along the generated travel trajectory.

5 . An information processing method comprising:
recognizing, by a computer, a travel environment around a moving object so that a trajectory of the moving object is generated; calculating, by the computer, a risk value to be set for a region surrounding a target located in the recognized travel environment; generating, by the computer, a travel trajectory of the moving object as a travel trajectory along which a plurality of trajectory points are arranged; and executing, by the computer, switching between: a first trajectory generation method involving paring each point of a point group constituting a left road marking in the travel environment and each point of a point group constituting a right road marking in the travel environment in order; and a second trajectory generation method of generating a current travel trajectory by designating a previous travel trajectory generated at a processing timing before a current processing timing as a reference line and offsetting each of the plurality of trajectory points constituting the reference line in a direction normal to the reference line on the basis of the risk value.

6 . A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to:
recognize a travel environment around a moving object so that a trajectory of the moving object is generated; calculate a risk value to be set for a region surrounding a target located in the recognized travel environment; generate a travel trajectory of the moving object as a travel trajectory along which a plurality of trajectory points are arranged; and execute switching between: a first trajectory generation method involving paring each point of a point group constituting a left road marking in the travel environment and each point of a point group constituting a right road marking in the travel environment in order; and a second trajectory generation method of generating a current travel trajectory by designating a previous travel trajectory generated at a processing timing before a current processing timing as a reference line and offsetting each of the plurality of trajectory points constituting the reference line in a direction normal to the reference line on the basis of the risk value.

7 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein when a speed of the moving object is higher than a prescribed speed and a width of a runway of the moving object is larger than a prescribed width, the processor executes the first trajectory generation method by executing the paring, calculating center points between points of the left road marking and the right road marking, connecting the center points to generate a center line serving as a reference line, and offsetting points constituting the reference line in a direction normal to the reference line on the basis of the risk value to generate the travel trajectory, whereas when the speed of the moving object is lower than or equal to the prescribed speed or the width of the runway of the moving object is smaller than or equal to the prescribed width, the processor executes the second trajectory generation method.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Baba Ichiro
• Yasui Yuji

Classifications

• B60W40/105

  Speed · CPC title

• B60W60/001

  Planning or execution of driving tasks · CPC title

• B60W2556/10

  Historical data · CPC title

• B60W30/0956

  the prediction being responsive to traffic or environmental parameters · CPC title

• B60W30/10

  Path keeping {(cruise control for automatically following a preceding vehicle B60W30/165)} · CPC title