Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle control to join route
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Application No.: US16732122Application Date: 2019-12-31
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Publication No.: US12054150B2Publication Date: 2024-08-06
- Inventor: Kazuhide Okamoto , Joseph Funke , Steven Cheng Qian
- 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: B60W30/18
- IPC: B60W30/18 ; B60W30/06 ; B60W40/04 ; B60W60/00

Abstract:
Techniques for determining a location for a vehicle to join a route structure are discussed herein. A vehicle computing system may operate the vehicle off the route structure according to an inertial-based reference frame. The vehicle computing system may determine a lateral distance of the vehicle to a route of the route structure and an angular difference between a heading of the vehicle and a direction of travel associated with the route. The vehicle computing system may determine a location to rejoin the route based on the lateral distance and the angular difference. In some examples, the vehicle computing system may determine the location based on a sigmoid function. The vehicle computing system may determine a vehicle trajectory to the location and may control the vehicle to the route based on the vehicle trajectory and the inertial-based reference frame.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210197819A1 VEHICLE CONTROL TO JOIN ROUTE Public/Granted day:2021-07-01
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