Autonomous driving style learning

• Main Authors: MATTHEW Y RUPP, RICHARD LEE STEPHENSON, GERALD H ENGELMAN, ANDREW WALDIS, THOMAS EDWARD PILUTTI, ALEX MAURICE MILLER, LEVASSEUR TELLIS, ROGER ARNOLD TROMBLEY, TIMOTHY D ZWICKY
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.08.2015
• Subjects: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; CONTROLLING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

A vehicle includes at least one autonomous driving sensor 110 configured to monitor at least one condition while the vehicle is operating in an autonomous mode. A processing device 115 is configured to control at least one vehicle subsystem 125 while the vehicle is operating in the autonomous mode. The processing device is configured to control the at least one vehicle subsystem according to a driver preference. The processing device may learn the driver preference when the vehicle is in a non-autonomous mode, whereby the system may learn a drivers driving style and control the vehicle subsystem according to the drivers driving style. The condition monitored may be a traffic, roadway or environmental condition. The processing device may associate a users driving style with a predetermined scenario and when the vehicle is in the autonomous mode and the predetermined scenario is detected the vehicle subsystem can be controlled according to the driving style associated with that scenario.