US 11,794,773 B2
Vehicle control interface and vehicle system
Eisuke Ando, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Feb. 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/802,671.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-074708 (JP), filed on Apr. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0324788 A1, Oct. 15, 2020
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60R 16/023 (2006.01); B60W 10/04 (2006.01); B60W 10/20 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 60/001 (2020.02) [B60R 16/0231 (2013.01); B60W 10/04 (2013.01); B60W 10/20 (2013.01); B60W 50/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0005 (2013.01); B60W 2710/20 (2013.01); B60W 2720/106 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control interface that connects a vehicle platform including a first computer that performs travel control of a vehicle and an autonomous driving platform including a second computer that performs autonomous driving control of the vehicle, the vehicle control interface comprising:
a control unit configured to act as a relay between the first computer of the vehicle platform and the second computer of the autonomous driving platform by executing:
acquiring, from the second computer, a first control command including first data designating a travel track, the first control command being data configured to control the vehicle platform;
converting the first control command into a second control command that is in a format that is executable by the first computer; and
transmitting the second control command to the first computer,
wherein the first data further designates a steering angle,
the control unit is configured to calculate a range of an amount of change in the steering angle requestable to the first computer based on information acquired from the vehicle platform, and
the control unit is further configured to notify the second computer of the amount of change in the steering angle requestable to the first computer.