US 12,292,294 B2
Vehicle travel route control system, vehicle travel route control device, and vehicle travel route control method
Masayasu Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP); Masahide Nakamura, Kanagawa (JP); Masaki Watanabe, Kanagawa (JP); and Daisuke Saito, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama (JP)
Appl. No. 17/442,671
Filed by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/000272
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 24, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/194062, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-060131 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0196416 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01)
CPC G01C 21/3461 (2013.01) [B60W 60/00253 (2020.02); B60W 60/0053 (2020.02); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle travel route control device comprising:
a vehicle dispatch controller configured to
obtain information on a dispatch request to a destination,
extract a dispatch vehicle candidate based on the dispatch request from a plurality of dispatch vehicle candidates,
(a) obtain position information of the dispatch vehicle candidate,
(b) create a travel route map for travel in which information has been obtained and added to a road map regarding a driving mode switching position at which a vehicle during travel switched over to a manual driving mode from an autonomous driving mode that is a driving mode realized by use of an autonomous driving function or a driving assist function of the vehicle has been obtained and added to a road map, the information regarding the driving mode switching position being acquired from a plurality of vehicles,
(c) calculate a travel route that avoids the driving mode switching position from at least one route on which the dispatch vehicle candidate travels to the destination via a boarding location based on the travel route map for travel, the position information of the dispatch vehicle candidate at an extracted timing, and
(d) transmit the travel route that has been calculated to the dispatch vehicle candidate upon determining that the calculated travel route avoids the driving mode switching position,
upon determining that the calculated travel route for the dispatch vehicle candidate does not avoid the driving mode switching position, repeating steps (a) through (d) for another one of the plurality of dispatch vehicle candidates until the travel route calculated for the dispatch vehicle candidate avoids the driving mode switching position,
the vehicle dispatch controller being disposed externally of the plurality of dispatch vehicle candidates.