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- Patent Title: Vehicle control and guidance
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Application No.: US16457654Application Date: 2019-06-28
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Publication No.: US11467573B2Publication Date: 2022-10-11
- Inventor: Timothy Caldwell , Ravi Gogna , Meredith James Goldman , Frank Reinaldo Ramirez , Matthew Miller Young , Rick Zhang
- Applicant: Zoox, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Foster City
- Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Foster City
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: G05D1/00
- IPC: G05D1/00 ; B60W50/10 ; G05D1/02 ; B60W50/14 ; G06F3/0481

Abstract:
A vehicle computing system may identify a scenario in an environment that violates an operating constraint. The vehicle computing system may request remote guidance from a guidance system of a service computing device. The vehicle computing system may receive input from the guidance system including one or more waypoints and/or associated orientations for the vehicle to navigate through the scenario. The vehicle computing system may be configured to validate the input. A validation may include processing the input to determine whether the waypoint(s) and/or orientation(s) associated therewith may cause the vehicle to violate a safety protocol. Based on a determination that the input will not cause the vehicle to violate the safety protocol, the vehicle computing system may control the vehicle according to the input, such as by causing a drive system to operate the vehicle to each waypoint at the associated orientation.
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