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Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2020
Applicant:

Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg, SE;

Inventors:

Minming Zhao, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sohini Roy Chowdhury, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

VOLVO CAR CORPORATION, Gothenburg, SE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/068 (2012.01); B60W 30/09 (2012.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/068 (2013.01); B60W 30/09 (2013.01); B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); B60W 2520/26 (2013.01); B60W 2552/40 (2020.02); B60W 2554/00 (2020.02);
Abstract

A vehicle control method and system, including: receiving road friction information indicating road friction estimates for a plurality of regions surrounding the vehicle; detecting and determining a predicted trajectory for an object within the plurality of regions surrounding the vehicle; wherein the predicted trajectory for the object is determined based in part on the road friction estimates for the plurality of regions surrounding the vehicle; and modifying operation of the vehicle based on the predicted trajectory for the object. The predicted trajectory for the object is determined based in part on a risk map for the plurality of regions surrounding the vehicle that is generated from a road friction map for the plurality of regions surrounding the vehicle.


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