US 12,233,888 B2
Method and system for development and verification of autonomous driving features
Mattias Brännström, Gothenburg (SE); Mathias Westlund, Lerum (SE); Roozbeh Kianfar, Gothenburg (SE); Jonas Lundh, Gothenburg (SE); and Cornelis Berger, Gothenburg (SE)
Assigned to Zenuity AB, Gothenburg (SE)
Filed by Zenuity AB, Gothenburg (SE)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/069,154.
Claims priority of application No. 19203392 (EP), filed on Oct. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0107499 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 50/08 (2020.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 50/082 (2013.01) [B60W 50/045 (2013.01); B60W 50/085 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0094 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for controlling a control system of a vehicle having a first driver support module and a second driver support module, wherein the first driver support module has a first operational design domain (ODD) and the second driver support module has a second ODD, wherein the first and second ODD defines conditions in which the first and second driver support module are allowed to operate in, the method comprising:
obtaining sensor data comprising information about a surrounding environment of the vehicle;
determining a fulfilment of an overlapping ODD, wherein the overlapping ODD is an overlap between the first ODD and the second ODD, based on the obtained sensor data; and
in response to the overlapping ODD being fulfilled, switching between a first configuration where the first driver support module is active and the second driver support module is inactive, and a second configuration where the first driver support module is inactive and the second driver support module is active,
wherein the switching between the first configuration and the second configuration is based on a switching protocol in order to perform closed loop testing of the second driver support module for at least portion of a time period that the vehicle is within an environment that fulfils the overlapping ODD;
wherein the switching protocol comprises a predefined time scheme comprising instructions for having the second configuration selected for a duration in a range of 50% to 90% of the time period, and having the first configuration selected for a remainder of the time period,
wherein the first ODD and the second ODD comprise operating domains in which an automated or a semi-automated driving system comprises an operational design domain (ODD) in which an automated or a semi-automated driving system is designed to function according to at least a geographical function and a connectivity function.