The Perception Modification Concept to Free the Path of An Automated Vehicle Remotely

Inner-city, automated vehicles will face situations in which they leave their operational design domain. That event may lead to an undesired vehicle standstill. Consequently, the vehicle’s independent continuation to its desired destination is not feasible. The undesired vehicle standstill can be caused by uncertainties in object detection, by environmental circumstances like weather, by infrastructural changes or by complex scenarios in general. Teleoperation is one approach to support the vehicle in such situations. However, it may not be clear which teleoperation concept is appropriate. In this paper, a teleoperation concept and its implementation to free the path of an automated vehicle is presented. The situation to be resolved is that a detection hinders the automated vehicle to proceed. However, the detection is either a false positive or it is an indeterminate object which can be ignored. The teleoperator corrects the object list and the occupancy grid map. Thereby, the teleoperator enables the automated vehicle to continue its path. The preliminary tests show that the teleoperation concept enables teleoperators to resolve the respective scenarios appropriately.