US 12,441,313 B2
Autonomous driving control apparatus and method thereof
Dong Hoon Kang, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Nov. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/981,947.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0030978 (KR), filed on Mar. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0311879 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 30/165 (2020.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 30/165 (2013.01) [B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2420/408 (2024.01); B60W 2554/4042 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4046 (2020.02); B60W 2554/802 (2020.02)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus of a vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
a sensor device provided in a vehicle and configured to obtain information about one or more vehicles;
a memory storing program instructions; and
a processor configured to execute the program instructions, wherein the program instructions, when executed, are configured to cause the apparatus to:
detect, via the sensor device and based on the information about the one or more vehicles, longitudinal behaviors of the one or more vehicles;
quantize a similarity value indicating quantized similarity between a longitudinal behavior of the vehicle and the longitudinal behavior of a candidate vehicle of the one or more vehicles;
based on a determination that the quantized similarity value satisfies a threshold, select the candidate vehicle as a target vehicle for longitudinal following; and
based on a determination that the target vehicle is traveling in a lane in which the vehicle is traveling, control an autonomous driving control apparatus of the vehicle to cause the vehicle to follow the target vehicle via autonomous longitudinal following control of the vehicle.