US 11,807,247 B2
Methods and systems for managing interactions between vehicles with varying levels of autonomy
John Anthony Dougherty, Wynnewood, PA (US); Jordan Scott Burklund, West Des Moines, IA (US); Kristen Wagner Cerase, Newark, DE (US); Stephen Marc Chaves, Philadelphia, PA (US); Ross Eric Kessler, Philadelphia, PA (US); Paul Daniel Martin, Devon, PA (US); Daniel Warren Mellinger, III, Raleigh, NC (US); and Michael Joshua Shomin, Philadelphia, PA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/805,819.
Application 17/805,819 is a continuation of application No. 16/727,179, filed on Dec. 26, 2019, granted, now 11,383,722.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/787,569, filed on Jan. 2, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/787,560, filed on Jan. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0297700 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 40/09 (2012.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01); B60W 30/16 (2020.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B60W 40/02 (2006.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 40/09 (2013.01) [B60W 30/162 (2013.01); B60W 40/02 (2013.01); B60W 50/0097 (2013.01); B60W 60/0017 (2020.02); B60W 60/00186 (2020.02); G05D 1/0066 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0223 (2013.01); G05D 1/0293 (2013.01); G06V 20/584 (2022.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.02); B60W 2050/0075 (2013.01); B60W 2556/65 (2020.02); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of controlling an autonomous vehicle, comprising:
identifying, via a processor of the autonomous vehicle, a vehicle that is within a threshold distance of the autonomous vehicle;
determining an autonomous capability metric (ACM) of the identified vehicle, wherein the ACM is a vector data structure including a plurality of values each representing a capability of the identified vehicle, the ACM being dynamically determined based on real-time data from the identified vehicle and certificates received via cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications;
determining whether the ACM of the identified vehicle is greater than a first threshold; and
adjusting a driving parameter of the autonomous vehicle based on capabilities of the identified vehicle in response to determining that the ACM of the identified vehicle is greater than the first threshold.