23 patents
Utility
System and Method for Generating Information on Remainder of Measurement Using Sensor Data
23 Nov 23
A method may include obtaining lidar data comprising a plurality of lidar returns from an environment of an autonomous vehicle.
Jake Charland, Ethan Eade, Karthik Lakshmanan, Daniel Munoz, Samuel Sean, Yuchen Xie, Luona Yang
Filed: 13 Feb 23
Utility
Removable Automotive LIDAR Data Collection POD
2 Nov 23
A vehicle agnostic removable pod can be mounted on a vehicle using one or more legs of a pod mount.
Nathaniel Gist, IV, Christopher Williams
Filed: 9 May 23
Utility
Lidar System
19 Oct 23
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system includes a window, a laser source configured to generate a beam, one or more scanning optics configured to output the beam through the window, and a sensor.
Edward Joseph Angus, Craig Benko
Filed: 14 Apr 22
Utility
Control Of Autonomous Vehicle Based On Determined Yaw Parameter(s) of Additional Vehicle
31 Aug 23
Determining an instantaneous vehicle characteristic (e.g., at least one yaw rate) of an additional vehicle that is in addition to a vehicle being autonomously controlled, and adapting autonomous control of the vehicle based on the determined instantaneous vehicle characteristic of the additional vehicle.
Warren Smith, Ethan Eade, Sterling J. Anderson, James Andrew Bagnell, Bartholomeus C. Nabbe, Christopher Paul Urmson
Filed: 11 Apr 23
Utility
Systems and Methods for Pareto Domination-Based Learning
20 Jul 23
Techniques for improving the performance of an autonomous vehicle (AV) are described herein.
Brian D. Ziebart, Paul Vernaza
Filed: 14 Jan 22
Utility
Silicon Photonics Device for LIDAR Sensor and Method for Fabrication
25 May 23
A structure of a silicon photonics device for LIDAR includes a first insulating structure and a second insulating structure disposed above one or more etched silicon structures overlying a substrate member.
Sen Lin, Andrew Steil Michaels
Filed: 29 Jun 22
Utility
Silicon Photonics Device for LIDAR Sensor and Method for Fabrication
25 May 23
A structure of a silicon photonics device for LIDAR includes a first insulating structure and a second insulating structure disposed above one or more etched silicon structures overlying a substrate member.
Sen Lin, Andrew Steil Michaels
Filed: 31 Oct 22
Utility
Systems and Methods Related to Controlling Autonomous Vehicle(s)
11 May 23
Implementations process, using machine learning (ML) layer(s) of ML model(s), actor(s) from a past episode of locomotion of a vehicle and stream(s) in an environment of the vehicle during the past episode to forecast associated trajectories, for the vehicle and for each of the actor(s), with respect to a respective associated stream of the stream(s).
James Andrew Bagnell, Sanjiban Choudhury, Venkatraman Narayanan, Arun Venkatraman
Filed: 9 Nov 21
Utility
Control of Autonomous Vehicle Based on Environmental Object Classification Determined Using Phase Coherent LIDAR Data
4 May 23
Determining classification(s) for object(s) in an environment of autonomous vehicle, and controlling the vehicle based on the determined classification(s).
Warren Smith, Ethan Eade, Sterling J. Anderson, James Andrew Bagnell, Bartholomeus C. Nabbe, Christopher Paul Urmson
Filed: 30 Dec 22
Utility
Vehicle Radar Sensor Utilizing Non-Uniform Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) Chirps
27 Apr 23
A vehicle radar sensor utilizes Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar signals that incorporate non-uniform FMCW chirps having chirp profiles that differ from one another to sense one or more parameters of one or more objects in a field of view of the radar sensor.
Chunshu Li, Stephen Crouch
Filed: 19 Dec 22
Utility
Lidar Simulation System
16 Mar 23
Simulating data received by a detection and ranging sensor including determining a first set of sample points on a surface of a simulated detector, the first set of sample points including a first sample point at a first location on the detector and a second sample point at a second location on the detector; generating a first ray associated with the first sample point, the first ray representing electromagnetic radiation reflected at a first point of intersection within a scene and incident on the first sample point on the surface of the detector; generating a second ray associated with the second sample point; the second ray representing electromagnetic radiation reflected at a second point of intersection within the scene and incident on the second sample point on the surface of the detector; and generating a ray-based data representation based on the first ray and the second ray.
Carl Jonas Magnus Unger, Carl Magnus Wrenninge
Filed: 16 Sep 21
Utility
Localization Methods And Architectures For A Trailer Of An Autonomous Tractor-Trailer
2 Mar 23
Systems and methods for localization of a trailer of an autonomous tractor-trailer are described herein.
Yekeun Jeong, Abhay Vardhan, Adam Richard Williams
Filed: 1 Sep 21
Utility
External Environment Sensor Data Prioritization for Autonomous Vehicle
16 Feb 23
An autonomous vehicle includes an array of sensors, a processor, and a switch.
Cameron David Christie, Anuranga Sajith Gunaratne
Filed: 31 Oct 22
Utility
Sensor Data Prioritization for Autonomous Vehicle Based on Vehicle Operation Data
16 Feb 23
An autonomous vehicle includes a control system, an array of sensors, processing logic, and a switch.
Cameron David Christie, Anuranga Sajith Gunaratne
Filed: 25 Oct 22
Utility
Systems and Methods for Pulsed-wave Lidar
8 Dec 22
In some implementations, a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes a laser source configured to provide an optical signal at a first signal power, an amplifier having a plurality of gain levels, at which the amplifier is configured to amplify the optical signal, and one or more processors.
Zeb Barber, Randy Reibel, Devlin Baker, Emil Kadlec
Filed: 21 Jul 22
Utility
Phase-Modulated Continuous Wave Radar Receiver With Time Division Quadrature Sampling
1 Dec 22
Time-division quadrature sampling may be used in a pulse-modulated continuous wave (PMCW) radar receiver circuit, e.g., as may be employed in various types of radar sensors used in automotive and other applications, to enable a quadrature sampling circuit to sequence between digitally sampling different complex components of a received radar signal at different times.
Stephen Crouch, Chunshu Li
Filed: 2 Mar 22
Utility
Redundant Lateral Velocity Determination and Use in Secondary Vehicle Control Systems
29 Sep 22
An autonomous vehicle uses a secondary vehicle control system to supplement a primary vehicle control system to perform a controlled stop if an adverse event is detected in the primary vehicle control system.
Ethan Eade, Nathaniel Gist, IV, Thomas Pilarski
Filed: 3 Jun 22
Utility
Control System for Autonomous Vehicle
15 Sep 22
A control system for a vehicle includes a time sensitive network switch and one or more processors.
Anuranga Sajith Gunaratne
Filed: 29 Nov 21
Utility
Generating Autonomous Vehicle Simulation Data from Logged Data
4 Aug 22
Logged data from an autonomous vehicle is processed to generate augmented data.
John Michael Wyrwas, Jessica Elizabeth Smith, Simon Box
Filed: 20 Apr 22
Utility
Generating Labeled Training Instances for Autonomous Vehicles
21 Jul 22
In techniques disclosed herein, machine learning models can be utilized in the control of autonomous vehicle(s), where the machine learning models are trained using automatically generated training instances.
Jean-Sebastien Valois, Thomas Pilarski, Daniel Munoz
Filed: 5 Apr 22