US 12,258,049 B2
Method and system for analyzing the control of a vehicle
Walter Steven Rosenbaum, Jerusalem (IL)
Filed by Walter Steven Rosenbaum, Jerusalem (IL)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/979,876.
Application 17/979,876 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/856,449, filed on Apr. 23, 2020, granted, now 11,524,707.
Claims priority of application No. 19170808 (EP), filed on Apr. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0060300 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 50/06 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); G09B 19/16 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 60/0057 (2020.02) [B60W 50/06 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/0053 (2020.02); B60W 60/0059 (2020.02); G09B 19/167 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2520/105 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for improving an operation of a vehicle having an autonomous driving unit configured for autonomously controlling the vehicle and a control takeover management unit configured for passing over control to a human driver, which comprises the steps of:
detecting, via a detector disposed in the vehicle, a change in a driving mode from autonomous driving to manual driving, the detecting including at least one of: determining a point in time a control takeover request is outputted by the control takeover management unit, determining a point in time the human driver takes over control from the autonomous driving unit, and determining a point in time when the human driver assumes safe control over the vehicle;
monitoring, via a sensor disposed in the vehicle, at least one driving parameter during the autonomous driving unit and/or the human driver controlling the vehicle;
determining at least one driving quantity describing the combined driving quality of a vehicle temporarily controlled by the autonomous driving unit and temporarily controlled by the human driver, via an evaluation unit, based on obtained driving values provided by the sensor upon monitoring the at least one driving parameter during a time interval ending at, starting from or including a point in time determined by the detector, wherein a driving behavior of the autonomous driving unit and/or the human driver as characterized by the obtained driving values is compared to a driving behavior of the driving units and/or human drivers of reference vehicles as characterized by a quantity distribution of driving values provided by a plurality of reference vehicles, and a difference between the driving behavior of the autonomous driving unit and/or the human driver and the driving behavior of the driving units and/or human drivers of reference vehicles corresponds to the at least one driving quantity;
configuring, via a configuring unit disposed in a computation facility and based on the at least one determined driving quantity, a risk management model for assessing an effectiveness and/or safety of control takeover events in the vehicle having the autonomous driving unit and the control takeover management unit;
outputting, via a computer system disposed in the computation facility and having the risk management model, assessment data obtained by executing a configured risk management model; and
operating the vehicle based on the assessment data.