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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2022
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Yashar Zeiynali Farid, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sergei S. Avedisov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Onur Altintas, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kentaro Oguchi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A method for planning lane-change actions considering string stability in a target lane is provided. The method includes learning a car following model based on training data related to a region, obtaining information about vehicles in a target lane in the region, simulating movements of the vehicles in the target lane responsive to an ego vehicle moving into the target lane based on the learned car following model and the information about the vehicles, determining whether the vehicles in the target lane will be string stable responsive to the ego vehicle moving into the target lane based on the simulated movements of the vehicles in the target lane, and instructing the ego vehicle to change lanes from a current lane to the target lane in response to determining that the vehicles in the target lane will be string stable responsive to the ego vehicle moving into the target lane.