US 11,987,253 B2
Apparatus and method for testing automated vehicles
Leo Alphonse Gerard Breton, Washington, DC (US)
Assigned to HORIBA Instruments Incorporated, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by HORIBA INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/191,068.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/984,683, filed on Mar. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0276571 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 40/105 (2012.01); B60W 10/06 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G01M 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 40/105 (2013.01) [B60W 10/06 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G01M 17/00 (2013.01); B60W 2510/0657 (2013.01); B60W 2540/18 (2013.01); B60W 2554/80 (2020.02); B60W 2556/10 (2020.02)] 9 Claims
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1. A vehicle test apparatus comprising:
a processor programmed to (i) transform data defining, for each of a plurality of instants of a duration of time for a vehicle to traverse a real or simulated route, a scheduled position of an object relative to a frame of reference local to a scheduled location along the route at the instant to data defining an actual temporal position of the object relative to a frame of reference local to the vehicle based on data defining a temporal location of the vehicle along the route at the instant and data defining the scheduled location along the route at the instant such that, for each of the plurality of instants, the scheduled position of the object and actual temporal position of the object are same relative to a global frame of reference regardless of the scheduled location along the route at the instant and the temporal location of the vehicle along the route at the instant, and (ii) output to the vehicle the data defining, for each of the plurality of instants, the actual temporal position of the object such that the vehicle executes control operations responsive thereto.