US 12,472,983 B2
Autonomous vehicle control apparatus and method thereof
Rosali Sun Pyun, Seongnam-si (KR); Woo Jin Kim, Incheon (KR); Seo Hyung Cheon, Seongnam-si (KR); Ki Seok Seong, Cheonan-si (KR); Eun Young Choi, Seoul (KR); and Min Sang Yu, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/994,749.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0028944 (KR), filed on Mar. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0278584 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 50/10 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 60/0015 (2020.02) [B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 50/10 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 2554/4046 (2020.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An autonomous vehicle control apparatus comprising:
one or more processors configured to control autonomous driving of a driving vehicle; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the autonomous vehicle control apparatus to:
monitor one or more surrounding vehicles located around the driving vehicle;
select a target vehicle among the one or more surrounding vehicles;
control the driving vehicle to ensure a safe space from the target vehicle, by ensuring a distance greater than a threshold distance between the driving vehicle and the target vehicle, while maintaining a first driving route of the driving vehicle; and
control the driving vehicle to change to a second driving route different from the first driving route, based on the target vehicle exhibiting an abnormal driving pattern,
wherein the autonomous vehicle control apparatus is configured to determine whether the abnormal driving pattern of the target vehicle continues after changing to the second driving route from the first driving route,
wherein a graphic representation of the target vehicle is displayed on a user interface of the driving vehicle, wherein a driving distance via the second driving route is less than a first threshold, and wherein a time difference between a first driving time to a destination via the second driving route and a second driving time to the destination via the first driving route is greater than a second threshold.