A position target for a planned speed change maneuver is received. From a predetermined family of kinematic functions, a kinematic function for carrying out the planned speed change maneuver, is determined. The kinematic function is a first or higher order derivative of acceleration with respect to…
A vehicular control device usable for a vehicle that executes autonomous traveling control is provided. The vehicular control device acquires performance information on performance of the vehicle, determines a range of request value estimated to guarantee specified accuracy, determines a…
A method and apparatus for determining an action for minimizing jerk to improve the ride comfort of an autonomous vehicle based on deep reinforcement learning. The apparatus comprises an information observation unit that collects observation information from a sensing module or a road-side unit…
Techniques for determining a planned trajectory usable to control a vehicle in an environment are discussed herein. A computing device can receive multiple planned trajectories generated by different models, and determine to use one of the planned trajectories to control the vehicle at a future…
A method for increasing comfort of an occupant in a vehicle includes training a plurality of emotional state prediction machine learning models. The method further may include recording a plurality of sensor data using at least one vehicle sensor. The method further may include determining an…
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to detecting whether a user in a vehicle is experiencing motion sickness. In one embodiment, a method includes determining whether a user in a vehicle is experiencing motion sickness based on a first movement measurement of the vehicle…
The driving support device includes an acquisition unit that acquires the driver's input results, and an output control unit that outputs a confirmation voice requesting the driver's consent in response to the driver's input for executing the driving support function. A determination unit that…
Aspects of the disclosure relate to enabling playing of content at an autonomous vehicle. For example, a request to transport a user on a trip may be received. The autonomous vehicle may be assigned to the trip. Whether the user has enabled a content feature may be determined. In response to…
A self-driving vehicle includes a motor, a driving source configured to drive the motor, a vehicle-traveling-time setter setting a vehicle traveling time determined by a passenger, thereby generating a passenger-set, vehicle traveling time, and a processor providing a traveling application…
Systems and methods for increasing the privacy of occupants of a vehicle are disclosed. In one example, a system includes a processor and a memory that has a privacy module with instructions. The instructions cause the processor to determine a first vehicle viewing area of a first vehicle and a…
Systems and methods for obtaining passenger feedback during an autonomous vehicle (AV) ride are provided. Feedback can be obtained in different forms during the passenger's ride. For instance, the passenger may opt-in to shadow the AV as it performs various driving behaviors. Input devices such as…
Systems and techniques are provided for optimizing autonomous vehicle compute paths and identifying latency violations. An example method can include identifying at least one compute path for processing input sensor data by an autonomous vehicle, wherein the at least one compute path includes a set…
An information processing apparatus configured to manage a vehicle with a relaxation facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire stress information regarding a worker working at a workplace, and command the vehicle to move to the workplace based on the…
A vehicle integrated-control device generates internal commands that supplement insufficient external commands in an environment where external commands are insufficient and that integrally controls each actuator to improve the operational feeling of the driver and occupant ride comfort. The…
A system and method for detecting a perceived level of driver discomfort in an automated vehicle that include receiving image data associated with a driving scene of an ego vehicle, dynamic data associated with an operation of the ego vehicle, and driver data associated with a driver of the ego…
A steering control method for autonomous vehicles includes detecting a location of an occupant sitting in an autonomous vehicle, determining, by a controller, a control target location of the vehicle while turning, based on the detected location of the occupant, determining, by the controller, a…
Provided are methods, systems, and computer program products for bidirectional path optimization in a grid. An example method may include: receiving vehicle environment data associated with an environment of a vehicle; determining an occupancy map of the environment using the vehicle environment…
Embodiments of the present disclosure sets forth a computer-implemented method comprising receiving, from at least one sensor, sensor data associated with an environment, computing, based on the sensor data, a cognitive load associated with a user within the environment, computing, based on the…
The present disclosure provides a method comprising receiving a rideshare request from a user, the rideshare request including a destination; transporting the passenger to the destination using an autonomous vehicle (AV) having a plurality of windows comprising electrically switchable smart glass…