Patent ID: 9070288
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for choosing a priority control object to be controlled, comprising: a path estimating unit configured to estimate a movement path of a moving body of a plurality of controllable bodies, each controllable body configured to move independently of each other controllable body; a scenario predicting unit configured to predict an accident scenario which can occur on the movement path, the accident scenario involving each of the plurality of controllable bodies; a risk calculating unit configured to calculate a first risk associated with an accident occurrence likelihood of each of the plurality of controllable bodies based on the accident scenario; a priority control object choosing unit configured to choose a priority control object to be controlled from the plurality of controllable bodies using the first risk of each of the plurality of controllable bodies; and a risk assuming unit configured to assume a second risk associated with a damage scale of the moving body or an environmental loss value, the environmental loss value depending on a damage to an environment associated with the moving body, the accident scenario, or both, wherein the priority control object choosing unit is configured to synthesize the first risk and the second risk at the time of choosing the priority control object or synthesize the first risk and a weighted second risk calculated by applying a weight to the second risk.