Technological Resources Pty. Limited

Ushr Inc.

Brendan Betke

Richard Pollock

Richard James Pollock

Florian Oppolzer

Hume Saunders

Justin Young

A self-driving road vehicle stores an active driving map that includes a data store of route feature data together with a software or control system that periodically selects from the data store and provides to systems on the vehicle the route feature data that are relevant to the vehicle location and the route that the vehicle is following. The route feature data may include a sequential series of road cross-section data objects that represent a real-world roadway being traversed by the vehicle. Methods for operating the self-driving road vehicle include providing route feature data from an active driving map, which may include the sequential series of road cross-section data objects that represent the real-world roadway being traversed.

Active driving map for self-driving road vehicle

A vehicle operating system () for controlling operation of a vehicle () in an area () in which a safe working area (SWA) () is demarcated includes a periphery generator module () for generating a periphery of a zone of interest about the vehicle () and to output zone data. A scanning arrangement () is mountable to the vehicle () for scanning a region about the vehicle (), including the zone of interest, for obstacles, the scanning arrangement () outputting obstacle data. A processing module () is responsive to the zone data, the obstacle data and SWA data relating to the SWA () to determine if a detected obstacle is within both the SWA () and the zone of interest. The processing module () causes action to be taken regarding further traversal of the area () by the vehicle () depending on whether or not both conditions are satisfied.

Method of operating a vehicle and a vehicle operating system

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Thornbury, Australia

Brendan Betke