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

Claim 8:
9. A system for predicting a future path for a vehicle, the system comprising:
an out-looking sensor unit for capturing sensor data indicative of a presence of an object in a vicinity of the vehicle and for capturing road data indicative of a roadway on a presently occupied road for the vehicle;
a vehicle sensor unit for collecting vehicle driving data indicative of at least a velocity, an acceleration, and a yaw rate of the vehicle;
processing circuitry configured to:
pre-process 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; and
process 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

a vehicle control system comprising one of a driver assistance system and an autonomous driving system and comprising instructions stored in a first memory and executed by the processing circuitry for controlling a motion of the vehicle based on the predicted future path output.