A method of operating an autonomous vehicle includes determining, by the autonomous vehicle, whether a target is in an intended maneuver zone around the autonomous vehicle; generating, by the autonomous vehicle, a signal in response to determining that the target is within the intended maneuver zone around the autonomous vehicle; determining, by the autonomous vehicle and based on perception information acquired by the autonomous vehicle, whether the target has left the intended maneuver zone around the autonomous vehicle; and determining, by the autonomous vehicle, that it is safe to perform the intended maneuver in response to determining, by the autonomous vehicle, that the target is not in the intended maneuver zone or in response to determining, by the autonomous vehicle, that the target has left the intended maneuver zone.

This document describes techniques for using occlusion constraints for resolving tracks from multiple types of sensors. In aspects, an occlusion constraint is applied to an association between a radar track and vision track to indicate a probability of occlusion. In other aspects, described are techniques for a vehicle to refrain from evaluating occluded radar tracks and vision tracks collected by a perception system. The probability of occlusion is utilized for deemphasizing pairs of radar tracks and vision tracks with a high likelihood of occlusion and therefore, not useful for tracking. The disclosed techniques may provide improved perception data more closely representing multiple complex data sets for a vehicle for preventing a collision with an occluded object as the vehicle operates in an environment.

An adaptive cruise control system includes an information acquisition unit having a main detector and a secondary detector, a control unit, and an execution unit. The main detector detects an object located ahead of the vehicle. The control unit determines whether control of the vehicle is required depending on an actual value determined by the main detector and the threshold value of a system property characterizing the driving environment. The execution unit controls the vehicle. The secondary detector is arranged such that its field of view for detecting an object located at an angle ahead of the vehicle covers the boundary of the main detector's field of view, and which is oriented outwards in relation to the forward direction of the vehicle. The secondary detector sends an indication signal to adjust the threshold value of the system property when an object is detected.

A vehicle is provided that includes a cruise control deactivation system. The system includes a cruise control system, and a user control that, when activated, commands deactivation of the cruise control system. The system also includes a processor configured to permit or override the commanded deactivation of the cruise control system while the vehicle is moving, based on at least one criterion. Criteria may include whether or not a first sensor detects a foot of a driver of the vehicle on an accelerator pedal of the vehicle, and whether or not a first computation indicates that the deactivation of the cruise control system will cause a collision with a second vehicle located behind the vehicle.

A hybrid deterministic override to cloud based probabilistic advanced driver assistance systems. Under default driving conditions, an ego vehicle is controlled by a probabilistic controller in a cloud. An overall gap between the ego vehicle and a leading vehicle is divided into an emergency collision gap and a driver specified gap. The vehicle sensors monitor the overall gap. When the gap between the ego vehicle and the leading vehicle is less than or equal to the emergency collision gap, a deterministic controller of the ego vehicle overrides the cloud based probabilistic controller to control the braking and acceleration of the ego vehicle.

A system and method operate an autonomous vehicle. A sensor senses a road and an object. A processor determines, in a Cartesian reference frame, a representation of the road and a source point representative of the object, samples a first waypoint and a second waypoint from the representation of the road, determines a linear projection of the source point to a line connecting the first waypoint and the second waypoint, determines a first estimate of a longitudinal component of the source point in a road-based reference frame based on the linear projection, the first estimate being on a curve representing the road between the first waypoint and the second waypoint, determines a second estimate of the longitudinal component from the first estimate, determines a coordinate of the source point in the road-based reference frame from the second estimate and operates the vehicle with respect to the object using the coordinate.

A system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to control at least one of a steering system or a propulsion system to operate a vehicle at a speed below a speed threshold. The instructions include instructions to determine whether one or more second vehicles a first distance from the vehicle are traveling below the speed threshold. The instructions include instructions to, upon determining the second vehicles are traveling below the speed threshold, continue to control the steering system or the propulsion system. The instructions include instructions to, upon determining the second vehicles are not traveling below the speed threshold, transition control of the steering system or the propulsion system to a human operator of the vehicle.

The present disclosure relates to a vehicle and control method thereof, to a vehicle having a driver assistance system for assisting a driver. When a lane change is requested even though it does not meet the predetermined lane change condition, present disclosure provides a vehicle driver assistance system (ADAS) that can actively indicate a lane change intention to an adjacent vehicle through ‘deflected driving in a lane’ and perform lane change safely after confirming the yield/overtake intention of the adjacent vehicle. It is an aspect of the present disclosure to provide a control method of a vehicle, including: confirming whether the surrounding situation of the vehicle satisfies a lane change condition when a lane change command occurs while the vehicle is driving autonomously; performing deflected driving in the lane of the vehicle to indicate a lane change intention when the surrounding situation of the vehicle does not satisfy the lane change condition; and performing a lane change corresponding to the lane change command when the yield intention for the lane change intention is confirmed from another vehicle around the traveling lane after indicating the lane change intention through the deflected driving.

A driving assist ECU determines that a current situation is a specific situation where it is predicted that there is no object that is about to enter an adjacent lane from an area outside of a host vehicle road on which a host vehicle is traveling, when a road-side object is detected at a part around an edge of the adjacent lane, and/or when a white line painted to define the adjacent lane is detected at the part around the edge of the adjacent lane and no object near the detected white line is detected. The driving assist ECU does not perform a steering control for avoiding a collision, the steering control for letting the vehicle enter the adjacent lane, when it is not determined that the current situation is the specific situation.

A system for preventing abnormal acceleration of a vehicle includes a device configured such that in a state in which the vehicle is stopped while the vehicle is turned on, the device is configured to determine whether abnormal acceleration prevention is necessary based on a final destination or a current position of the vehicle before the vehicle is turned off to thereby limit a vehicle speed. The system and a method for preventing abnormal operation of the vehicle can prevent a vehicle accident due to the abnormal acceleration caused by misoperation by a driver, such as misoperation of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle.