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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2016
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Rohit Pandita, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
John-Michael McNew, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Derek S. Caveney, Plymouth, MI (US);
Vladimeros Vladimerou, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A lane identity in a roadway in which a vehicle is traveling can be determined. The roadway can include a plurality of lanes. The determining can include generating a lane identification confidence belief indicating a probability that the vehicle is in a particular lane of the plurality of lanes of the roadway. Generating the lane identification confidence belief can be based on: any detected lane crossings, the number of lanes in the roadway, the lane marker type to a left side and to a right side of the vehicle at the current position of the vehicle or ahead of the current position of the vehicle in a forward direction of travel of the vehicle, and a weighted average of an instantaneous lane identification confidence belief and a lane identification confidence belief prior to a current sample time period.