ACCESSIBILITY METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTONOMOUS/SEMI-AUTONOMOUS DRIVING

Apparatus, method and computer readable medium associated with autonomous/semi-autonomous driving (AD/Semi-AD) are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may comprise an accessibility engine disposed in an AD/semi-AD vehicle to control accessibility elements of the vehicle. The accessibility...

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Main Authors ALVAREZ, Ignacio J, EKANDEM, Joshua
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 11.01.2023
Subjects
CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION
CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES
GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS
MEASURING
MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS
NAVIGATION
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
PHYSICS
ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT
SURVEYING
TESTING
TRANSPORTING
VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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Summary:Apparatus, method and computer readable medium associated with autonomous/semi-autonomous driving (AD/Semi-AD) are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may comprise an accessibility engine disposed in an AD/semi-AD vehicle to control accessibility elements of the vehicle. The accessibility engine may be configured to receive sensor data from a plurality of sensors disposed in the vehicle, and determine a specific spot for the vehicle to stop at a destination for a passenger or driver to ingress or egress the vehicle, based at least in part on the sensor data and a model of the vehicle that includes information about accessibility elements of the vehicle, including determination of accessibility needs of the passenger or driver based at least in part on at least some of the sensor data. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20170915824