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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2016
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Xue Bai, Novi, MI (US);
Radovan Miucic, Southfield, MI (US);
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The systems and methods are directed to a vehicle control system for use with: a vehicle communications network, at least one source of pedestrian data relevant to at least one pedestrian's location, and at least one source of vehicle system data relevant to the vehicle's location and movement. The control system can include a processor that is configured to determine a vehicle's current location and speed based on the vehicle system data, build a predetermined number of vehicle polygons hardcoded into an application for representing a predicted path of the vehicle, build at least one pedestrian polygon representing a predicted path for at least one pedestrian detected in pedestrian data, and define a plurality of warning zones based on the vehicle polygons, and determine if one or more of the pedestrian polygons intersects at least one of the predetermined number of hardcoded vehicle polygons.