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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2021
Applicant:
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nicholas Charles Fishwick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/10 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B62D 6/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 6/10 (2013.01); B60W 50/10 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2050/143 (2013.01); B60W 2510/202 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for influential control over a driver's operation of a vehicle's steering wheel. Upon issuing an autonomous control signal to control motive operation of the vehicle, an autonomous control system of the vehicle may reinforce or influence the application of the autonomous control signal by inducing or cuing to induce the driver's hand(s) to turn the vehicle's steering wheel in a particular direction or by a particular amount/with a particular level of torque.