Title:
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND OWN-LOCATION ESTIMATION METHOD OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2022/186277
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
This autonomous vehicle comprises: a vehicle body; a first road surface image acquisition device that is mounted on a lower surface of the vehicle body, and acquires an image of a road surface under the vehicle body; a second road surface image acquisition device that is mounted on the lower surface of the vehicle body, and acquires an image of the road surface under the vehicle body; and a storage unit that stores a map image of the road surface associated with geographical location information. The autonomous vehicle also comprises: a first own-location estimation unit that estimates the own-location of the autonomous vehicle by comparing a feature extracted from the image of the road surface acquired by the first road surface image acquisition device with a feature extracted from the map image; and a second own-location estimation unit that estimates the own-location of the autonomous vehicle by comparing a feature extracted from the image of the road surface acquired by the second road surface image acquisition device with a feature extracted from the map image.
Inventors:
UEDA YUKI (JP)
UNO TAKASHI (JP)
D'SOUZA DANIEL (US)
AUCHTER JOSEPH (US)
UNO TAKASHI (JP)
D'SOUZA DANIEL (US)
AUCHTER JOSEPH (US)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2022/008879
Publication Date:
September 09, 2022
Filing Date:
March 02, 2022
Export Citation:
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI KK (JP)
SOUTHWEST RES INST (US)
SOUTHWEST RES INST (US)
International Classes:
G08G1/00; G01C21/26
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2016059930A1 | 2016-04-21 |
Foreign References:
| US20190107400A1 | 2019-04-11 | |||
| JP2008225822A | 2008-09-25 | |||
| JP2021081272A | 2021-05-27 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
ONDA Makoto et al. (JP)
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