US 11,718,313 B2
Autonomous driving system and control method of autonomous driving system
Sho Otaki, Yokohama (JP); and Yasuo Sakaguchi, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/520,004.
Application 17/520,004 is a continuation of application No. 16/397,447, filed on Apr. 29, 2019, granted, now 11,492,000.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-100893 (JP), filed on May 25, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0055646 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 50/14 (2013.01) [B60W 30/181 (2013.01); G06V 20/584 (2022.01); B60W 2050/143 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An autonomous driving system configured to perform an autonomous driving of a vehicle, comprising:
an electronic control unit (ECU) including a processor programmed to:
perform a trigger input request for requesting a driver of the vehicle to perform a trigger input for causing the vehicle to pass through a target point if the autonomously driving vehicle approaches the target point set in advance and positioned on a traveling route of the vehicle;
detect the driver's trigger input;
cause the vehicle to pass through the target point if the trigger input is detected, and cause the vehicle to decelerate and stop without passing through the target point if the trigger input is not detected;
recognize a lighting state of the traffic signal which is located in the target point and is corresponding to a traveling route of the vehicle;
notify the driver that the switching of the traffic signal to a state other than the passing permitted state is recognized and to perform the trigger input re-request if the switching of the traffic signal to the state other than the passing permitted state is recognized after the trigger input is detected; and
cause the vehicle to pass through the target point without temporarily stopping if the trigger input is detected after the trigger input re-request, and to cause the autonomously driving vehicle to decelerate and stop without passing through the target point if the trigger input is not detected after the trigger input re-request.