SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUSLY OR PARTIALLY AUTONOMOUSLY DRIVING A VEHICLE WITH COMMUNICATION MODULE FOR OBTAINING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM A VEHICLE DRIVER AND CORRESPONDING METHOD

摘要

Control commands in a system and method for autonomously driving a vehicle or partially autonomously driving a vehicle are generated on the basis of an environment representation, which is generated from sensor signal of a sensing means. The environment representation where ambiguous objects are identified is such that information obtained from the driver of the vehicle are added. The system generates an information request. Additional information is extracted and accumulated in the environment representation map. Traffic is then determined and suitable control signals for the vehicles are generated. In case no ambiguous objects are included in the environment representation but the system is not capable of deciding on traffic, the driver is asked to disambiguate the situation or to instruct on dealing with the traffic.

主权项

1. System for autonomously or partially autonomously driving a vehicle, the system comprising:
at least one sensing means for physically sensing an environment of the vehicle, representation generation means for generating a representation of the environment by accumulating information on objects in the environment, derived from the sensing means output, a communication module for obtaining additional information on at least one object in the representation in case no information or information with a confidence below a predetermined threshold is derivable from the sensing means output for that object, and adding this information on the object to the environment representation, evaluation means for determining from the representation a current traffic situation the vehicle encounters and generating control signals to achieve a control task.