Method and electronic device for controlling operation of a self driving car

Abstract

A method and electronic device for controlling operation of a Self Driving Car (SDC) are disclosed. The method includes, at a given timestamp during operation of the SDC when located at a current location: generating a candidate location of the SDC using a localization algorithm, generating a parameter using a Machine Learning Algorithm (MLA) indicative of whether the localization algorithm is likely to generate divergent candidate locations for the SDC in a candidate portion of the map representation under a variety of conditions, determining that the localization algorithm is an unreliable localization source in the candidate portion of the map representation using the parameter, determining a multi-sourced location of the SDC using data acquired from a reduced set of localization sources, the reduced set of sources excluding the localization algorithm, and controlling operation of the SDC using the multi-sourced location as the current location of the SDC.