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Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025

Filed:

May. 26, 2022
Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Adil Nizam Siddiqui, Farmington Hills, MI (US);

Deepa Ramaswamy, Canton, MI (US);

Cynthia M. Neubecker, Westland, MI (US);

Robert Parenti, Dearborn, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); G01C 21/3484 (2013.01); G01C 21/3492 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2420/408 (2024.01);
Abstract

A system receives vehicle sensor data indicating upcoming route characteristics as a vehicle travels a route. The system identifies one or more passibility-limiting features from the vehicle sensor data and, based on the sensor data, interpolates at least one characteristics of at least one feature that would affect vehicle travel. The system determines if the feature has been previously identified by comparison to previously identified features associated with locations within a proximity of a present location of the vehicle. Further, the system determines if the at least one characteristic has more than a predefined deviance from one or more previously interpolated characteristics associated with the feature and alert the user via the vehicle if at least one of the previously interpolated characteristics or the at least one characteristic indicates that the vehicle may have difficulty passing the feature based on predefined parameters of the vehicle.


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