TARGETED DRIVING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

    公开(公告)号:US20220413510A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-29

    申请号:US17357018

    申请日:2021-06-24

    Applicant: Waymo LLC

    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of providing a destination to an autonomous vehicle in order to enable the autonomous vehicle to collect data according to a targeted driving goal. For instance, a current location of an autonomous vehicle may be received. A set of destinations may be selected from a plurality of predetermined destinations. A route may be determined for each destination. A relevance score may be determined for each destination based on the determined routes and the targeted driving goal. Each destination may be assigned to one of a set of two or more buckets based on the relevance scores. A destination of the set may be selected based on a predetermined sampling probability. The selected destination is sent to the autonomous vehicle in order to cause the autonomous vehicle to travel to the selected destination in an autonomous driving mode.

    OPTIMIZATION FOR DISTRIBUTING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES TO PERFORM SCOUTING

    公开(公告)号:US20220089176A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-24

    申请号:US17028576

    申请日:2020-09-22

    Applicant: Waymo LLC

    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to distributing vehicles to perform scouting. This may involve receiving a request for a scouting objective for a vehicle, and in response, identifying a set of scouting objectives that the vehicle is eligible to visit. Each scouting objective of the set is associated with one or more scouting quests, and each scouting quest is associated with a plurality of scouting objectives. For each given scouting objective in the set of scouting objectives, an overall weight may be determined using combined weights for the given scouting objective and any scouting quests with which the given scouting objective is associated. One or more scouting objectives of the set of scouting objectives may be selected using the determined overall weights. The one or more selected scouting objectives may be provided to the vehicle.

    Fleet management for autonomous vehicles

    公开(公告)号:US10545510B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-28

    申请号:US15838650

    申请日:2017-12-12

    Applicant: Waymo LLC

    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to assigning a fleet of driverless vehicles to a plurality of parking locations for parking vehicles of the fleet. For instance, locations of the vehicles of the fleet as well as a number of available spaces at each of the plurality of parking location locations may be tracked. A subset of the fleet not already located at one of the plurality of parking locations is identified. At least one assignment assigning each vehicle of the subset to a respective parking location of the plurality of parking locations is determined according to the numbers of available spaces and the identified locations of the subset. For the at least one assignment, a total cost is determined by determining a cost value for each of a plurality of factors. The given assignment is sent to the fleet based on the total cost and the cost value.

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