US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 8 for "Method of anticipatory control for automated driving" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,503, issued on April 8, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method of anticipatory control for automated driving" was invented by Yubiao Zhang (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Bakhtiar B. Litkouhi (Washington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving planned path data, road data, and speed profile data, determining anticipatory constraints for each of the plurality of steps along a planned path using the planned path data, the road data, and the speed profile data, determining a plurality of control actions using a Model Predictive Control (MPC). The prediction model of the MPC is upda...