Autonomous driving system and method for vehicles and vehicle including the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020183384-A1
Application number	US-201916427174-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 30, 2019
Priority date	Dec 10, 2018
Publication date	Jun 11, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

An autonomous driving system for vehicles includes: an autonomous driving controller for controlling autonomous driving of a host vehicle based on information of nearby vehicles and requesting warning and handover upon determining that a failure in autonomous driving of nearby vehicles has occurred; a communication controller for requesting the warning and handover; selecting an emergency target vehicle and requesting a driving mode of following the emergency target vehicle upon receiving autonomous driving failure information; a human-machine interface device for outputting warning and handover information in response to the request of the autonomous driving controller and the communication controller; and a host vehicle driving controller for controlling driving of the host vehicle in response to the request of the autonomous driving controller and the communication controller.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An autonomous driving system for vehicles comprising:
an autonomous driving controller configured to control autonomous driving of a host vehicle based on information of nearby vehicles, the autonomous driving controller requesting warning and handover upon determining that a failure in autonomous driving of nearby vehicles running in a travel path ahead of the host vehicle has occurred; a communication controller configured to receive the information of the nearby vehicles and to transmit the information of the nearby vehicles to the autonomous driving controller, wherein the communication controller, upon receiving autonomous driving failure information from the autonomous driving controller, requests warning and handover, selects an emergency target vehicle, and requests a driving mode of following the emergency target vehicle; a human-machine interface (HMI) device configured to output warning and handover information in response to the request of the autonomous driving controller and the communication controller; and a host vehicle driving controller configured to control driving of the host vehicle in response to the request of the autonomous driving controller and the communication controller.

2 . The autonomous driving system according to claim 1 , wherein, after the warning and handover has been requested, the autonomous driving controller requests the host vehicle driving controller to perform safe-mode driving to allow the host vehicle to run in a safe mode.

3 . The autonomous driving system according to claim 1 , wherein the autonomous driving controller selects a tracking target vehicle and transmits information of the selected tracking target vehicle to the communication controller.

4 . The autonomous driving system according to claim 3 , wherein, when selecting the tracking target vehicle, the autonomous driving controller extracts path information of preceding vehicles from the information of the nearby vehicles, extracts an autonomous driving target path of the host vehicle from map information of the host vehicle, compares the path information of the preceding vehicles with the autonomous driving target path of the host vehicle, classifies preceding vehicles having same path information as the autonomous driving target path of the host vehicle, and selects the tracking target vehicle from among the classified preceding vehicles.

5 . The autonomous driving system according to claim 1 , wherein, after receiving the information of the nearby vehicles, the communication controller extracts information of a tracking target vehicle, which is selected as the emergency target vehicle, from the information of the nearby vehicles, accumulates the information of the tracking target vehicle to generate a history, and stores the history in a memory of the communication controller.

6 . The autonomous driving system according to claim 1 , wherein, when receiving the autonomous driving failure information from the autonomous driving controller, the communication controller determines that the failure in autonomous driving has occurred upon receiving an autonomous driving failure signal from the autonomous driving controller or after not receiving a response signal from the autonomous driving controller within a prescribed period of time.

7 . The autonomous driving system according to claim 1 , wherein the communication controller requests the driving mode of following the emergency target vehicle until the handover is performed or until the autonomous driving of the host vehicle is performed.

8 . The autonomous driving system according to claim 1 , wherein, when requesting the driving mode of following the emergency target vehicle, if only an emergency target vehicle running in a non-autonomous mode is present, the communication controller requests the driving mode of following the emergency target vehicle which is running in the non-autonomous mode.

9 . The autonomous driving system according to claim 1 , wherein, when requesting the driving mode of following the emergency target vehicle, if an emergency target vehicle running in a non-autonomous mode and an emergency target vehicle running in an autonomous mode are present, the communication controller requests the driving mode of following the emergency target vehicle which is running in the autonomous mode, and
wherein, when autonomous driving of the emergency target vehicle running in the autonomous mode fails, the communication controller requests the driving mode of following the emergency target vehicle which is running in the non-autonomous mode.

10 . The autonomous driving system according to claim 1 , wherein, after selecting the emergency target vehicle, the communication controller extracts information of the emergency target vehicle from the information of the nearby vehicles, stores the information of the emergency target vehicle in a history of the emergency target vehicle, and requests the driving mode of following the emergency target vehicle based on the history of the emergency target vehicle.

11 . An autonomous driving method using an autonomous driving system for vehicles, wherein the autonomous system includes an autonomous driving controller, a communication controller, an HMI device, and a host vehicle driving controller communicatively connected to each other, the autonomous driving method comprising steps of:
receiving, by the autonomous driving controller, information of nearby vehicles from the communication controller; controlling, by the autonomous driving controller, autonomous driving of a host vehicle based on the information of the nearby vehicles; determining, by the autonomous driving controller, whether a failure in autonomous driving of the nearby vehicles running in a travel path ahead of the host vehicle has occurred; upon determining that the failure in autonomous driving of the nearby vehicles has occurred, requesting, by the autonomous driving controller, warning and handover to the HMI device; and requesting, by the autonomous driving controller, the host vehicle driving controller to perform safe-mode driving.

12 . The autonomous driving method according to claim 11 , wherein the information of the nearby vehicles includes driving information and infrastructure information.

13 . The autonomous driving method according to claim 11 , further comprising steps of:
selecting, by the autonomous driving controller, a tracking target vehicle; and transmitting, by the autonomous driving controller, information of the tracking target vehicle to the communication controller.

14 . The autonomous driving method according to claim 13 , wherein the step of selecting a tracking target vehicle comprises:
extracting path information of preceding vehicles from the information of the nearby vehicles and extracting an autonomous driving target path of the host vehicle from map information of the host vehicle; comparing the path information of the preceding vehicles with the autonomous driving target path of the host vehicle; classifying preceding vehicles having same path information as the autonomous driving target path of the host vehicle; and selecting the tracking target vehicle from among the classified preceding vehicles.

15 . An autonomous driving method using an autonomous driving system for vehicles, wherein the autonomous driving system includes an autonomous driving controller, a communication controller, an HMI device and a host vehicle driving controller communicatively connected to each other, the autonomous driving method comprising steps of:
receiving, by the commun

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Noh Hahk Rel
• Sung Su Lyun
• Hwang Dae Sung
• Park Jun Ho
• Ryu Cho Rong
• Lee Tae Jun
• Park Da Yeon
• Noh Dong Gyu
• Park Jong Rok

Classifications

• B60W60/0015 Primary

  specially adapted for safety · CPC title

• B60W2554/801

  Lateral distance · CPC title

• B60W2050/143

  Alarm means · CPC title

• B60W50/029

  Adapting to failures or work around with other constraints, e.g. circumvention by avoiding use of failed parts · CPC title

• B60W2554/802

  Longitudinal distance · CPC title