Patent ID: 11970186
Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 18:
19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method for operating an automotive arithmetic system mounted in a motor vehicle, the method comprising:
estimating a vehicle external environment including a road and an obstacle using deep learning based on an output from a vehicle external information acquisition device that acquires information of the vehicle external environment;
generating a travel route of the motor vehicle based on the estimated vehicle external environment;
estimating the presence of the road and the obstacle based on the output from the vehicle external information acquisition device according to a predetermined rule without using deep learning;
generating a rule-based travel route in a free space on the road where no obstacle is present;
generating a safe route, which is a travel route that the motor vehicle takes until the motor vehicle stops at a safe stop position that satisfies a preset criterion, based on the output from the vehicle external information acquisition device without using deep learning;
prioritizing one of the travel route, the rule-based travel route, or the safe route;
determining a target motion of the motor vehicle so that the motor vehicle travels on the prioritized route; and
executing an arithmetic operation to generate the travel route, an arithmetic operation to generate the rule-based travel route, and an arithmetic operation to generate the safe route independently of each other.