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Autonomic Traveling Apparatus for a Vehicle

  • US 20110118900A1
  • Filed: 11/09/2010
  • Published: 05/19/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An autonomic traveling apparatus for a vehicle comprising:

  • a vehicle position obtaining unit that obtains the current position of a traveling vehicle;

    a lane information storage that stores links of lane traveled by the vehicle;

    a travel controller that causes the vehicle to travel toward end coordinates of the link being currently traveled by the vehicle, the end coordinates being regarded as a destination for the vehicle;

    a transceiver that communicates with a travel administration center;

    an obstacle-on-lane detector that checks the link to determine whether a obstacle exists on the link; and

    a road condition detector that checks a condition of a surface of a road near the traveling vehicle and determines that the lane is in a safe condition,wherein the lane information storage stores coordinates of start and end points of the links representing shapes of lanes with respect to an independent travel lane which vehicles travel at high speeds, pass-by lanes which vehicles travel when the vehicles pass by other vehicles and crossover lanes which vehicles travel when the vehicles change their course from the independent travel lane to the pass-by lanes, and also stores the road conditions of crossover lanes for each link;

    the transceiver notifies a result of the measurement of the crossover lanes by the road condition detector and a current position of the traveling vehicle to a travel administration center, and receives from the travel administration center the result of the measurement of the crossover lanes notified to the travel administration center;

    the transceiver receives information on the available crossover lanes from the travel administration center after it received from the travel administration center a command that the vehicle should enter the pass-by lane; and

    the travel controller causes the vehicle to change its course to the pass-by lane via the crossover lane when the obstacle-on-lane detector determines that the received crossover lane is free of an obstacle.

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