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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2001
Shan Cong, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Leonard W. Behr, White Lake, MI (US);
James P. Ebling, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Automotive Systems Laboratory, Inc., Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A plurality of events representative of a situation in which the host vehicle is operated are selected, including at least one set of related events. Input data is provided to an inference engine from either a first set of data representative of a target in a field of view of the host vehicle, a second set of data representative of the position or motion of the host vehicle, or a third set of data is representative of an environment of said host vehicle. The inference engine operates in accordance with an inference method to generate an output representative of a probability of occurrence of at least one event of the set of events, responsive to the input data, and possibly to one or more outputs at a past time. A countermeasure may be invoked responsive to one or more outputs from one or more inference engines.