Patent application EP18171786A (EP), filed 2018-05-11
Publication number: EP3401191A1
Title: AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME
Abstract: A method of controlling a vehicle, which is configured to be autonomously driven, includes determining a learned route based on a driving route that the vehicle has driven in a manual mode from a starting location to an ending location, driving the vehicle along the learned route in an autonomous mode, detecting a parking space based on driving the vehicle along the learned route in the autonomous mode, and based on a detection of the parking space in the learned route, parking the vehicle in the detected parking space.
IPC codes: B60W  30/    06            A I
B62D  15/    02            A I
G08G   1/    16            A I
Claims: number: 1
text: A method of controlling a vehicle (100) that is configured to be autonomously driven, the method comprising:
number: 2
text: The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the learned route (1640, 1740, 1910, 2110, 2230, 2510, 2530, 2630, 2710, 2820) based on the driving route comprises:
number: 3
text: The method according to claim 2, wherein storing the information about the property of the object comprises storing first information related to an object that is located at a static location in the driving route or second information related to an object that is movable in the driving route.
number: 4
text: The method according to claim 2, wherein determining the learned route (1640, 1740, 1910, 2110, 2230, 2510, 2530, 2630, 2710, 2820) further comprises:
number: 5
text: The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein determining the learned route (1640, 1740, 1910, 2110, 2230, 2510, 2530, 2630, 2710, 2820) further comprises:
number: 6
text: The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein determining the learned route (1640, 1740, 1910, 2110, 2230, 2510, 2530, 2630, 2710, 2820) further comprises:
number: 7
text: The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein driving the vehicle (100) along the learned route (1640, 1740, 1910, 2110, 2230, 2510, 2530, 2630, 2710, 2820) in the autonomous mode comprises:
number: 8
text: The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising receiving information about a parking facility,
wherein driving the vehicle (100) along the learned route (1640, 1740, 1910, 2110, 2230, 2510, 2530, 2630, 2710, 2820) in the autonomous mode comprises:
number: 9
text: The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein driving the vehicle (100) along the learned route (1640, 1740, 1910, 2110, 2230, 2510, 2530, 2630, 2710, 2820) in the autonomous mode comprises:
number: 10
text: The method according to claim 9, wherein controlling the vehicle (100) to the one of the starting location (920, 1620, 2210) or the ending location (930, 1630, 1730, 2220, 2320, 3030, 3130) along the learned route (1640, 1740, 1910, 2110, 2230, 2510, 2530, 2630, 2710, 2820) further comprises:
number: 11
text: The method according to claim 2, wherein detecting the parking space (900, 1400) comprises:
number: 12
text: The method according to claim 11, wherein parking the vehicle (100) in the detected parking space (900, 1400)comprises:
based on a detection of a plurality of parking spaces (900, 1400), selecting a parking space (900, 1400) according to a predetermined prioritization.
number: 13
text: The method according to claim 1, wherein the parking space (900, 1400) includes a reserved parking space that is located at the ending location (930, 1630, 1730, 2220, 2320, 3030, 3130).
number: 14
text: The method according to claim 13, wherein parking the vehicle (100) in the detected parking space (900, 1400) comprises:
number: 15
text: A vehicle (100) comprising:
Office action: search_report, dated 2018-11-14
Rejection reasons: novelty_epc_54
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Final disposition: pending (2018-11-14)