Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Updating road graphs for autonomous driving
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Application No.: US17012458Application Date: 2020-09-04
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Publication No.: US11853070B2Publication Date: 2023-12-26
- Inventor: Michael Montemerlo , Peter Michal Pawlowski , Joy Weng Zhang
- 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: G01C21/00
- IPC: G01C21/00 ; G05D1/02 ; G01C21/34 ; G01C21/36 ; G06V20/56

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for updating data of a map. One of the methods includes storing a map of an environment, the map comprising surfels and a road graph; receiving new surfel data for the surfels; adjusting the surfels based on the new surfel data; determining a vector field difference between the surfels of the stored map and the adjusted surfels; adjusting a portion of the road graph based on the vector field difference; generating an updated map comprising the adjusted surfels and the adjusted portion of the road graph; and storing the updated map.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220075382A1 UPDATING ROAD GRAPHS FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING Public/Granted day:2022-03-10
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