US 11,807,224 B2
Automated valet parking system
Noriyuki Tsuruoka, Susono (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/558,879.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-009428 (JP), filed on Jan. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0234572 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 30/06 (2006.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/06 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G05D 1/0238 (2013.01); G05D 1/0246 (2013.01); G06V 20/586 (2022.01); G08G 1/14 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automated valet parking system in which a parking lot management server that manages a parking lot gives an instruction to an autonomous driving vehicle in the parking lot to cause the autonomous driving vehicle to be automatically parked in a target parking space in the parking lot, the system comprising:
a traveling coordinate acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a plurality of traveling coordinates arranged along a runway of the parking lot to an entrance of the target parking space based on a vehicle position of the autonomous driving vehicle, a position of the target parking space, and parking lot map information; and
a trajectory generation unit configured to generate a trajectory of the autonomous driving vehicle based on the information on the traveling coordinates and a result of detection from an in-vehicle external sensor,
wherein the trajectory generation unit is configured to
determine whether or not the entrance of the target parking space is recognizable based on an object recognition range that is a range in which an object is recognized with at least a certain accuracy using the external sensor and is a range based on a predetermined position of the autonomous driving vehicle, the information on the traveling coordinates, and the position of the target parking space, and
generate the trajectory that brings the autonomous driving vehicle closer to the target parking space on the runway so that the object for recognizing the entrance of the target parking space is included in the object recognition range when it is determined that the entrance of the target parking space is not recognizable.