US 12,420,801 B2
Methods, apparatuses, systems and computer program products for estimating road condition information
Johan Olof Kälvesten, Linköping (SE); Jesper Harald Otterholm, Linköping (SE); and Per Olof Magnus Magnusson, Linköping (SE)
Assigned to NIRA Dynamics AB, Linköping (SE)
Appl. No. 17/779,775
Filed by NIRA Dynamics AB, Linköping (SE)
PCT Filed Nov. 27, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/083676
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 25, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/105388, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 3, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 102019132258.8 (DE), filed on Nov. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0010647 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 40/06 (2012.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 40/06 (2013.01) [G08G 1/096708 (2013.01); B60W 2555/20 (2020.02); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of estimating individualized road condition information for a specific vehicle, the method comprising
receiving generic road condition information, which is indicative of at least one condition of a road segment;
receiving individualization information, which is representative of an estimating method to be performed on the generic road condition information to obtain individualized road condition information for the specific vehicle;
estimating individualized road condition information for the vehicle and the road segment, wherein the estimating method is applied to the received generic road condition information to obtain individualized road condition information; and
wherein the method further comprises, after the estimating:
measuring, at the vehicle using a vehicle sensor, individual road condition information indicative of the at least one condition of the road segment for the vehicle;
comparing the measured individual road condition information with the estimated individualized road condition information;
updating the individualization information based on the comparison; and
outputting the individualized road condition information to a vehicle control system of the vehicle.