US 12,230,038 B2
Apparatus and method for predicting trajectory of surrounding vehicle
Jun Soo Kim, Seoul (KR); Jeong Soo Kim, Seoul (KR); Wan Jae Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Jun Won Choi, Seoul (KR); Byeoung Do Kim, Seoul (KR); and Seok Hwan Lee, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR); and JUCF-HYU (Industry-University Cooperation, Foundation, Hanyang University), Seoul (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR); and IUCF-HYU (Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University), Seoul (KR)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/475,760.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0046141 (KR), filed on Apr. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0327317 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06N 3/044 (2023.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01)
CPC G06V 20/588 (2022.01) [G06N 3/044 (2023.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01)] 12 Claims
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1. An apparatus for predicting a trajectory of a surrounding vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
a storage configured to store a high definition map, a Lane Selection Network (LSN) including at least one Convolution Neural Network (CNN), and a Trajectory Prediction Network (TPN); and
a controller configured to:
extract lane information around a target vehicle, traveling around a host vehicle, based on the high definition map,
input the lane information around the target vehicle and previous trajectory information of the target vehicle to the LSN to detect reference lane information, and
input the reference lane information and the previous trajectory information of the target vehicle to the TPN to acquire future trajectory information of the target vehicle,
wherein the lane information includes a Lane Coordinate Vector (LCV) indicating a center line of each lane, and
wherein the controller determines center lines for respective lanes based on a reference center line located closest to a previous driving trajectory of the target vehicle, projects a current location of the target vehicle onto each center line, sets segments with respect to the current location of the target vehicle on each center line, and extracts coordinates of equal intervals on each segment as the lane information.