Patent ID: 11919512
Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for predicting a future path for a vehicle, the method comprising:
collecting vehicle driving data indicative of at least a velocity, an acceleration, and a yaw rate of the vehicle using a vehicle sensor unit of the vehicle;
collecting sensor data indicative of a presence of an object in a vicinity of the vehicle using an out-looking sensor unit of the vehicle;
collecting road data indicative of a roadway on a presently occupied road for the vehicle using the out-looking sensor unit of the vehicle;
using pre-processing instructions stored in a memory and executed by processing circuitry, pre-processing comprising using data transformations of the sensor data, the road data, and the vehicle driving data to provide a graphical representation of a scene comprising the vehicle and surrounding objects, the graphical representation comprising a single image that provides a set of object data comprising a time series of previous positions of the object relative to the vehicle, a time series of previous headings of the object, and object size data indicating a space occupied by the object, and wherein the single image includes a bird's eye view of the scene comprising the vehicle and surroundings in the vicinity of the vehicle and the object;
using processing instructions stored in the memory and executed by the processing circuitry, processing the single image of the graphical representation in a deep neural network to output a predicted future path for the vehicle based on the graphical representation; and
controlling a motion of the vehicle using a vehicle control system comprising one of a driver assistance system and an autonomous driving system based on the predicted future path output.