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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2020
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg, DE;
Julian-Steffen Müller, Hanover, DE;
Fabian Plinke, Hamburg, DE;
Andreas Braasch, Wuppertal, DE;
Johannes Heinrich, Cologne, DE;
Timo Horeis, Hamburg, DE;
Tobias Kain, Oberndorf/Melk, AT;
Maximilian Wesche, Edemissen, DE;
Hendrik Decke, Braunschweig, DE;
VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Wolfsburg, DE;
Abstract
A self-driving motor vehicle including numerous control units and numerous program codes for controlling the functions of the autonomous driving and other functions of the self-driving vehicle. Numerous program codes used for an autonomous driving mode are applied redundantly to at least two different control units. The self-driving motor vehicle may then be operated in an at least a partially autonomous driving mode. In this mode, the functions directly needed for satisfying a passenger's desire are determined, and weighted with regard to their importance in fulfilling the passenger's desires. At least one function of a lower order is then shut off, if the available resources in functioning control units and/or the power level in the self-driving motor vehicle are insufficient to execute program code for executing this function of the lower order.