Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Agent prioritization for autonomous vehicles
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Application No.: US17320727Application Date: 2021-05-14
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Publication No.: US11673550B2Publication Date: 2023-06-13
- Inventor: Kai Ding , Khaled Refaat , Stephane Ross
- Applicant: Waymo LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Waymo LLC
- Current Assignee: Waymo LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: B60W30/095
- IPC: B60W30/095 ; G05D1/02 ; G05D1/00

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying high-priority agents in the vicinity of a vehicle. In one aspect, a method comprises processing an input that characterizes a trajectory of the vehicle in an environment using an importance scoring model to generate an output that defines a respective importance score for each of a plurality of agents in the environment in the vicinity of the vehicle. The importance score for an agent characterizes an estimated impact of the agent on planning decisions generated by a planning system of the vehicle which plans a future trajectory of the vehicle. The high-priority agents are identified as a proper subset of the plurality of agents with the highest importance scores.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210269023A1 AGENT PRIORITIZATION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES Public/Granted day:2021-09-02
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