公开(公告)号：US20240083462A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-14

申请号：US18511609

申请日：2023-11-16

Applicant: TUSIMPLE, INC.

Inventor： Robert Patrick BROWN ,  Todd B. SKINNER

IPC: B60W60/00 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W40/04 ,  B60W40/105

CPC classification number: B60W60/0015 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W40/04 ,  B60W40/105 ,  B60W2420/42 ,  B60W2420/54 ,  B60W2554/20 ,  B60W2554/402 ,  B60W2554/4041 ,  B60W2554/80 ,  B60W2710/18

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle includes a detection system for identifying the presence of authorities or emergency vehicles on a road, such as law enforcement vehicles, fire engines, fire trucks, police officers, first responders, traffic cones, flares, etc. The detection system may include audio and visual detection system dedicated to the detection of authorities. Additionally, systems that correlate the detected authorities and/or any audible or visual instructions given by the authorities to changes in the behavior of the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle may react to the detected authorities or emergency vehicles by determining a driving related operation to safely operate around the detected authorities or emergency vehicles.

公开(公告)号：USD1014394S1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-13

申请号：US29694550

申请日：2019-06-11

Applicant: TuSimple, Inc.

Designer： Qiwei Li ,  Todd Skinner

Abstract: FIG. 1 shows a front isometric view of an integrated multi-purpose perception housing.
FIG. 2 is a front isometric view thereof, showing top panels removed for ease of illustration.
FIG. 3 is an exploded front view of FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is a right-side view of FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is a front view of FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 is a bottom view of FIG. 1.
FIG. 7 is a rear view of FIG. 1;
FIG. 8 is an enlarged isometric view of a right side portion and a left side portion of the integrated multi-purpose perception housing; the center portion of the integrated multi-purpose perception housing shown in FIG. 2 has been removed for ease of illustration; and,
FIG. 9 is an enlarged view of the integrated multi-purpose perception housing taken from indication circle 9 of FIG. 5.
The broken lines in the drawings illustrate portions of the integrated multi-purpose perception housing and form no part of the claimed design. The dot-dot-dash broken lines in the drawings illustrate boundaries of an enlargement that form no part of the claimed design.

公开(公告)号：US11886183B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-30

申请号：US17807709

申请日：2022-06-17

Applicant: TUSIMPLE, INC.

Inventor： Xing Sun ,  Wutu Lin ,  Liu Liu ,  Kai-Chieh Ma ,  Zijie Xuan ,  Yufei Zhao

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  G01C21/26 ,  B60W20/00 ,  B60R16/023 ,  G01C21/34

CPC classification number: G05D1/0005 ,  B60R16/0236 ,  G01C21/3469 ,  G05D1/0088

Abstract: A system and method for autonomous vehicle control to minimize energy cost are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: generating a plurality of potential routings and related vehicle motion control operations for an autonomous vehicle to cause the autonomous vehicle to transit from a current position to a desired destination; generating predicted energy consumption rates for each of the potential routings and related vehicle motion control operations using a vehicle energy consumption model; scoring each of the plurality of potential routings and related vehicle motion control operations based on the corresponding predicted energy consumption rates; selecting one of the plurality of potential routings and related vehicle motion control operations having a score within an acceptable range; and outputting a vehicle motion control output representing the selected one of the plurality of potential routings and related vehicle motion control operations.

公开(公告)号：US11885712B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-30

申请号：US17093172

申请日：2020-11-09

Applicant: TuSimple, Inc.

Inventor： Xing Sun ,  Wutu Lin ,  Yufei Zhao ,  Liu Liu

IPC: G01M17/00 ,  B60W30/00

CPC classification number: G01M17/00 ,  B60W30/00

Abstract: A system and method for real world autonomous vehicle perception simulation are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: configuring a sensor noise modeling module to produce simulated sensor errors or noise data with a configured degree, extent, and timing of simulated sensor errors or noise based on a set of modifiable parameters; using the simulated sensor errors or noise data to generate simulated perception data by simulating errors related to constraints of one or more of a plurality of sensors, and by simulating noise in data provided by a sensor processing module corresponding to one or more of the plurality of sensors; and providing the simulated perception data to a motion planning system for the autonomous vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US11884284B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-30

申请号：US17080330

申请日：2020-10-26

Applicant: TUSIMPLE, INC.

Inventor： Yu-Ju Hsu ,  Xiaoling Han

IPC: B60W50/023 ,  B60W50/02 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60L7/26

CPC classification number: B60W50/023 ,  B60L7/26 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W50/0205 ,  B60L2240/12 ,  B60T2270/602 ,  B60W2050/021 ,  B60W2420/42 ,  B60W2420/52

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for redundant braking systems and architectures are described. An example method for controlling a vehicle includes receiving, by a braking system, a first set of commands generated by a primary brake controller and a primary vehicle control unit (VCU) comprising multiple processors, receiving a second set of commands generated by the primary VCU and a secondary brake controller, receiving a third set of commands generated by a secondary VCU and the primary brake controller, receiving a fourth set of commands generated by the secondary VCU and the secondary brake controller, and selecting, based on an arbitration logic, exactly one of the first, second, third, and fourth sets of commands to operate the braking system, wherein the primary VCU and the secondary VCU are configured in a master/slave architecture.

公开(公告)号：US20240025426A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-25

申请号：US18479711

申请日：2023-10-02

Applicant: TUSIMPLE, INC.

Inventor： Yixin YANG

IPC: B60W50/04 ,  G06F30/20 ,  B60W10/02 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/10 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W30/18 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: B60W50/045 ,  G06F30/20 ,  B60W10/02 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/10 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W30/18 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  B60W2556/00 ,  B60W2050/0028

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing hybrid simulation operations with an autonomous vehicle. A method of testing autonomous vehicle operations includes receiving, by a computer, a pre-configured scenario that includes one or more simulation parameters and one or more initial condition parameters, sending, to the autonomous vehicle and based on the one or more initial condition parameters, control signals that instruct the autonomous vehicle to operate at an operative condition, and in response to determining that the autonomous vehicle is operating at the operative condition, performing a simulation with the one or more simulated objects and the autonomous vehicle to test a response of the autonomous vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20240020257A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-18

申请号：US18349882

申请日：2023-07-10

Applicant: TUSIMPLE, INC.

Inventor： Faez YAHYA ,  Sridhar KUMAR ,  Shimeng WANG ,  Changyi ZHAO ,  Yuankun ZHU

IPC: G06F13/40

CPC classification number: G06F13/4022

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle can include a compute controller that can efficiently perform autonomous driving operations. An apparatus for autonomous vehicle operation comprises an electrical board that includes a plurality of semiconductor devices; a first switch device that is electrically coupled to the plurality of semiconductor devices via a first communication bus of the electrical board; and a second switch device that is electrically coupled to the plurality of semiconductor devices via a second communication bus of the electrical board, where the second switch device is configured to route data between any two or more of the plurality of semiconductor devices using the second communication bus, and where a first data carrying capacity of the first communication bus is independent of a second data carrying capacity of the second communication bus.

公开(公告)号：US20240019267A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-18

申请号：US18353352

申请日：2023-07-17

Applicant: TUSIMPLE, INC.

Inventor： Xiaoling Han ,  Zehua Huang

IPC: G01C25/00 ,  G01C11/04 ,  G01S17/10 ,  G01S7/48 ,  G01C9/06 ,  G06T7/80 ,  H04N17/00 ,  G01S7/4865 ,  G01S17/931 ,  G01S17/46 ,  G01S17/42 ,  G01S17/48 ,  G01S17/89

CPC classification number: G01C25/00 ,  G01C11/04 ,  G01S17/10 ,  G01S7/4808 ,  G01C9/06 ,  G06T7/80 ,  H04N17/002 ,  G01S7/4865 ,  G01S17/931 ,  G01S17/46 ,  G01S17/42 ,  G01S17/48 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G01C2009/066

Abstract: Technique for performing camera calibration on a vehicle is disclosed. A method of performing camera calibration includes emitting, by a laser emitter located on a vehicle and pointed towards a road, a first laser pulse group towards a first location on a road and a second laser pulse group towards a second location on the road, where each laser pulse group includes one or more laser spots. For each laser pulse group: a first set of distances are calculated from a location of a laser receiver to the one or more laser spots, and a second set of distances are determined from an image obtained from a camera, where the second set of distances are from a location of the camera to the one or more laser spots. The method also includes determining two camera calibration parameters of the camera by solving two equations.

公开(公告)号：US11853883B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-26

申请号：US17214828

申请日：2021-03-27

Applicant: TuSimple, Inc.

Inventor： Tian Li ,  Panqu Wang ,  Pengfei Chen

IPC: G06N3/00 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06V20/56 ,  G06V10/44 ,  G06F18/214 ,  G06F18/21 ,  G06F18/2413 ,  G06N3/045 ,  G06V10/764

CPC classification number: G06N3/08 ,  G06F18/214 ,  G06F18/2178 ,  G06F18/24143 ,  G06N3/045 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06V10/454 ,  G06V10/764 ,  G06V20/588

Abstract: A system and method for instance-level lane detection for autonomous vehicle control are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving image data from an image data collection system associated with an autonomous vehicle; performing an operational phase comprising extracting roadway lane marking features from the image data, causing a plurality of trained tasks to execute concurrently to generate instance-level lane detection results based on the image data, the plurality of trained tasks having been individually trained with different features of training image data received from a training image data collection system and corresponding ground truth data, the training image data and the ground truth data comprising data collected from real-world traffic scenarios; causing the plurality of trained tasks to generate task-specific predictions of feature characteristics based on the image data and to generate corresponding instance-level lane detection results; and providing the instance-level lane detection results to an autonomous vehicle subsystem of the autonomous vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US11853071B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-26

申请号：US16848809

申请日：2020-04-14

Applicant: TUSIMPLE, INC.

Inventor： Xing Sun ,  Wutu Lin ,  Liu Liu ,  Kai-Chieh Ma ,  Zijie Xuan ,  Yufei Zhao

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B62D15/02

CPC classification number: G05D1/0221 ,  B62D15/026 ,  B62D15/0255 ,  B62D15/0265 ,  G05D1/0088

Abstract: A data-driven prediction-based system and method for trajectory planning of autonomous vehicles are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: generating a first suggested trajectory for an autonomous vehicle; generating predicted resulting trajectories of proximate agents using a prediction module; scoring the first suggested trajectory based on the predicted resulting trajectories of the proximate agents; generating a second suggested trajectory for the autonomous vehicle and generating corresponding predicted resulting trajectories of proximate agents, if the score of the first suggested trajectory is below a minimum acceptable threshold; and outputting a suggested trajectory for the autonomous vehicle wherein the score corresponding to the suggested trajectory is at or above the minimum acceptable threshold.