US 12,353,214 B2
Vehicle control system and control method
David Pettinger, Coventry (GB); Daniel Woolliscroft, Coventry (GB); Mostafa Taie, Coventry (GB); Max Nalborczyk, Coventry (GB); David Torres, Coventry (GB); Qian Lu, Coventry (GB); and Shyam Mohandas, Coventry (GB)
Assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED, Coventry (GB)
Appl. No. 16/970,219
Filed by JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED, Warwickshire (GB)
PCT Filed Dec. 18, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/085430
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 14, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/158261, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 22, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 1802475 (GB), filed on Feb. 15, 2018; and application No. 1813040 (GB), filed on Aug. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0080967 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2024.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC G05D 1/0221 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0061 (2013.01); B60W 60/0053 (2020.02)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control system for a host vehicle operable in an autonomous mode and a non-autonomous mode, the control system comprising one or more controllers configured to:
receive, when operating in the non-autonomous mode:
a mode signal indicative of the host vehicle operating in a training mode; and
environment data indicative of a sensed environment of the host vehicle during a first manoeuvre by the host vehicle from a first location to a first navigation goal;
wherein, in the training mode, the one or more controllers:
identify a navigable area in a vicinity of the first manoeuvre based on the environment data, the navigable area being suitable to contain a plurality of possible navigation paths for subsequent navigation of the host vehicle, operating in the autonomous mode, from the first navigation goal as a start location to a second navigation goal within the navigable area, the second navigation goal being different than the first navigation goal; and
output vehicle control data indicative of the navigable area, wherein when subsequently navigating to the second navigation goal in the autonomous mode, the control system utilises the vehicle control data to autonomously control the host vehicle.