OCCUPANCY-BASED VEHICLE COLLISION MANAGEMENT

• US 20190033875A1
• Filed: 07/31/2017
• Published: 01/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Perez Barrera, Oswaldo, Perez, Victor Ariel, Jimenez Hernandez, Alvaro
• Application Number:
  US15/664,374
• Publication Number:
  US 20190033875A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 28/10 responsive to conditions relating to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/022 Actuator failures
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/408 Traffic behavior, e.g. swarm
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/00 Purposes of road vehicle drive control systems not related to the control of a particular sub-unit, e.g. of systems using conjoint control of vehicle sub-units
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/085 Taking automatic action to adjust vehicle attitude in preparation for collision, e.g. braking for nose dropping
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/095 Predicting travel path or likelihood of collision
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/0265 Automatic obstacle avoidance by steering
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0088 characterized by the autonomous decision making process, e.g. artificial intelligence, predefined behaviours using knowledge based models G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0214 in accordance with safety or protection criteria, e.g. avoiding hazardous areas monitoring the location of vehicles within a certain area, e.g. forbidden or allowed areas, in traffic control systems for road vehicles G08G1/13
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0145 for active traffic flow control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0175 by photographing vehicles, e.g. when violating traffic rules
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/052 with provision for determining speed or overspeed speed measuring in general G01P
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/056 with provision for distinguishing direction of travel
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096827 where the route is computed onboard

Abstract

A map is generated identifying one or more surrounding vehicles including respective occupancy statuses for each surrounding vehicle. A host vehicle collision event is predicted. Based on the predicted collision event and the occupancy statuses, a host vehicle component is actuated.

Claims

1. A system, comprising a host vehicle computer comprising a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions such that the computer is programmed to:

generate a map identifying one or more surrounding vehicles including respective occupancy statuses for each surrounding vehicle, each occupancy status being one of occupied, unoccupied, and unknown;

predict a host vehicle collision event; and

based on the predicted collision event and the occupancy statuses, actuate a host vehicle component.

2. The system of claim 1, the computer further programmed to receive identifying indicia of one or more vehicles from a remote server, and to identify one or more of the surrounding vehicles according to the identifying indicia.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the identifying indicia includes a vehicle license plate.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein programming of the host vehicle computer to actuate a host vehicle component includes programming not to actuate the host vehicle component.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a second computer programmed to transmit the occupancy statuses to the host vehicle computer.

7. The system of claim 6, the host vehicle computer further programmed to transmit a host vehicle occupancy status to the second computer.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a second computer in a second vehicle that is one of the one or more surrounding vehicles, the second computer programmed to transmit a second vehicle occupancy status.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer is further programmed to predict the collision event based on a detected fault in a vehicle brake system.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer is further programmed to actuate the host vehicle component to cause the host vehicle to collide with one of the surrounding vehicles that has an unoccupied occupancy status.

4. (canceled)

11. A method, comprising:

generating a map identifying one or more surrounding vehicles including respective occupancy statuses for each surrounding vehicle, each occupancy status being one of occupied, unoccupied, and unknown;

predicting a host vehicle collision event; and

based on the predicted collision event and the occupancy statuses, actuating a host vehicle component.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving identifying indicia of one or more vehicles from a remote server, and identifying one or more of the surrounding vehicles according to the identifying indicia.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the identifying indicia includes a vehicle license plate.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising not actuating the host vehicle component upon determining no collision event is predicted.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the occupancy statuses are received in the host vehicle from a remote computer outside the host vehicle.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising transmitting a host vehicle occupancy status from the host vehicle to the to the remote computer.

18. The method of claim 11, further transmitting a second vehicle occupancy status from the second vehicle.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising predicting the collision event based on a detected fault in a vehicle brake system.

20. The method of claim 11, further comprising actuating the host vehicle component to cause the host vehicle to collide with one of the surrounding vehicles that has an unoccupied occupancy status.

14. (canceled)