AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLE AND INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SUPPORTING AUTONOMOUS DRIVING THEREOF

• US 20150187216A1
• Filed: 06/16/2014
• Published: 07/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KWAK, Dong Yong
• Application Number:
  US14/305,508
• Publication Number:
  US 20150187216A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096725 where the received information generates an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096783 where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking

Abstract

Provided is an autonomous driving vehicle, and an infrastructure for supporting autonomous driving thereof. The autonomous driving vehicle of the present invention receives information obtained by converging sensor information (for example, infrastructure sensor information and traffic information) based on an infrastructure and vehicle sensor information selected by the infrastructure from the infrastructure positioned at the outside. Accordingly, the autonomous driving vehicle of the present invention may overcome a limitation of vehicle-based autonomous driving, thereby improving obstacle avoidance performance, solving inaccuracy of a sensor, and decreasing frequent setting of a path.

Claims

1. An autonomous driving vehicle, comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with an infrastructure;

a vehicle sensor information obtaining unit configured to obtain vehicle sensor information;

an infrastructure driving information processing unit configured to provide the infrastructure with the vehicle sensor information through the communication unit when the vehicle sensor information is requested, and receive vehicle sensor information from a vehicle pre-selected by the infrastructure and object information generated based on information based on the infrastructure from the infrastructure through the communication unit; and

an autonomous driving unit configured to receive the object information to control autonomous driving.

2. The autonomous driving vehicle of claim 1, wherein the infrastructure driving information processing unit includes:

a vehicle sensor information providing module configured to receive a vehicle sensor information request from the infrastructure, and provide the vehicle sensor information according to the vehicle sensor information request;

an infrastructure information synchronizing module configured to receive the object information, classify the object information according to time and a position, and maintain newest updated information; and

an infrastructure information providing module configured to provide the autonomous driving unit with the object information.

3. The autonomous driving vehicle of claim 2, wherein the infrastructure information synchronizing module classifies the object information according to the time and the position, and maintains only newest information closest to current time based on the object information classified according to the time and the position.

4. The autonomous driving vehicle of claim 1, wherein the information based on the infrastructure includes traffic information and infrastructure sensor information, and

the traffic information includes traffic condition information obtained through a traffic center and traffic light state information obtained through a traffic light control device, and the infrastructure sensor information includes information obtained by sensing surrounding environments of sensors connected with the infrastructure.

5. An infrastructure for supporting autonomous driving of an autonomous driving vehicle, comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of vehicles;

an infrastructure sensor information obtaining unit configured to obtain infrastructure sensor information obtained by sensing surrounding environments from a plurality of infrastructure sensors;

a traffic information collecting unit configured to collect traffic information; and

an infrastructure based driving condition recognizing unit configured to receive vehicle sensor information from a selected vehicle through the communication unit, synchronize the vehicle sensor information, the infrastructure sensor information, and the traffic information, and then provide the autonomous driving vehicle with object information generated based on the synchronized information through the communication unit.

6. The infrastructure of claim 5, wherein the plurality of sensors includes at least one of a laser scanner, a vision sensor, and a radar.

7. The infrastructure of claim 5, wherein the infrastructure based driving condition recognizing unit includes:

a sensor information synchronizing module configured to synchronize the vehicle sensor information, the infrastructure sensor information, the traffic information based on time and a position;

an object recognizing module configured to classify objects by using the synchronized information and generate object information by using the classified objects; and

a driving condition information transmitting module configured to provide the autonomous driving vehicle with the object information through the communication unit.

8. The infrastructure of claim 7, wherein the infrastructure based driving condition recognizing unit further includes a vehicle selecting module configured to select a vehicle for receiving vehicle sensor information among the plurality of vehicles in order to receive the vehicle sensor information, and request the vehicle sensor information from the selected vehicle.

9. The infrastructure of claim 8, wherein the vehicle selecting module selects a vehicle considering a vehicle located at a position from which information about density of vehicles, a vehicle positioned at a blind zone, and safe driving is receivable when selecting the vehicle.

10. The infrastructure of claim 7, wherein the object recognizing module generates the object information considering at least one of a movement property, a type, a finding position, a relative distance, and finding time of each of the classified objects.

11. The infrastructure of claim 7, wherein the driving condition information transmitting module generates the object information in a form of a broadcasting message considering a band of communication with the autonomous driving vehicle, and outputs the generated object information in the form of the broadcasting message to the communication unit.

12. The infrastructure of claim 5, wherein the traffic information collecting unit is connected with at least one of a traffic center for collecting traffic condition information and a traffic light control device for receiving traffic light state information.