US 12,129,983 B2
Optimizing a predictive dynamic bending light function of a lighting system
Aleksander Bronislaw Spychala, Cologne (DE); Thomas Erber, Cologne (DE); Janos Golumba, Huerth (DE); and Lars Junker, Cologne (DE)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed by Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/466,096.
Claims priority of application No. 102020211190.1 (DE), filed on Sep. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0074566 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. F21S 41/657 (2018.01); B60Q 1/076 (2006.01); B60Q 1/08 (2006.01); F21V 21/15 (2006.01); G06N 3/04 (2023.01)
CPC F21S 41/657 (2018.01) [B60Q 1/076 (2013.01); B60Q 1/08 (2013.01); F21V 21/15 (2013.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A programmable apparatus comprising a processor and a memory, comprising programming stored in the memory such that the processor is programmed to:
control a lighting system of a vehicle with initial bending light control parameter values, wherein the lighting system includes a headlamp apparatus with an illumination direction that is changeable;
provide classifications of a performance of the lighting system into a target performance class and at least one non-target performance class, based on output values when the lighting system is controlled with the initial bending light control parameter values; and
ascertain updated bending light control parameter values based on driving trajectory parameter input values to the lighting system, and ones of the classifications of the performance of the lighting system that are assigned to the driving trajectory parameter input values;
wherein ascertaining the updated bending light control parameter values includes applying a genetic algorithm with which a frequency of the classification of the performance of the lighting system into the target performance class is increased;
wherein the target class corresponds to a correct reaction of the lighting system, and the at least one non-target class corresponds to an incorrect reaction of the lighting system.