US 11,754,413 B2
Path setting apparatus, path setting method, and storage medium
Satoshi Onodera, Tokyo (JP); Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Wako (JP); and Hideki Matsunaga, Wako (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 19, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/824,030.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-067127 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0309553 A1, Oct. 1, 2020
Int. Cl. G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B60W 10/20 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/362 (2013.01) [B60W 10/20 (2013.01); G05D 1/0022 (2013.01); G05D 1/0027 (2013.01); B60W 2556/50 (2020.02); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A path setting apparatus comprising at least one processor circuit with a memory comprising instructions, that when executed by the at least one processor circuit, cause the at least one processor circuit to at least:
acquire a communication quality at each of a plurality of geographical locations;
set a plurality of different paths for a plurality of mobile bodies to pass through an area that satisfies a requirement of communication quality that is determined according to an operation mode of each of the mobile bodies, each of the plurality of mobile bodies having a plurality of operation modes including a first operation mode in which a passenger of the mobile body does not drive the mobile body and a second operation mode in which a passenger of the mobile body drives the mobile body, the setting of individual ones of the different paths including
adjusting the individual ones of the different paths of the plurality of mobile bodies with respect to each other based on requirements of communication quality of the plurality of mobile bodies,
prioritizing a mobile body operating in the first operation mode over a mobile body operating in the second operation mode to determine the different paths of the plurality of mobile bodies, and
when it is expected, as a result of setting individual ones of the different paths such that both a first mobile body in the first operation mode and a second mobile body in the second operation mode pass through a common area, that a level of communication traffic will exceed a threshold, setting a respective one of the different paths associated with the second mobile body such that the second mobile body does not pass through the common area;
transmit the respective one of the different paths to the second mobile body; and
control the second mobile body to follow the respective one of the different paths.