公开(公告)号：US20200004241A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-02

申请号：US16557899

申请日：2019-08-30

申请人： Zoox, Inc.

发明人： Jesse Sol Levinson ,  Ashutosh Gajanan Rege ,  Rachad Youssef Gamara ,  Gabriel Thurston Sibley ,  Timothy David Kentley-Klay ,  Gary Linscott

IPC分类号： G05D1/00 ,  B60W30/00 ,  G08G1/00

摘要： Various embodiments relate generally to autonomous vehicles and associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an autonomous vehicle fleet as a service. More specifically, systems, devices, and methods are configured to initiate modification of trajectories to influence navigation of autonomous vehicles. In particular, a method may include receiving a teleoperation message via a communication link from an autonomous vehicle, detecting data from the teleoperation message specifying an event associated with the autonomous vehicle, identifying one or more courses of action to perform responsive to detecting the data specifying the event, and generating visualization data to present information associated with the event to a display of a teleoperator computing device.

公开(公告)号：US10303174B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-28

申请号：US15886675

申请日：2018-02-01

申请人： Zoox, Inc.

发明人： Timothy David Kentley-Klay ,  Rachad Youssef Gamara ,  Sagar Behere

IPC分类号： G05D1/02 ,  B60W30/09 ,  B60Q1/52 ,  B60W30/095 ,  B60W30/08 ,  B60N2/00 ,  B60R21/01 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W10/30 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W30/18 ,  B60Q1/26 ,  B60L3/00 ,  B60L3/04 ,  B60L11/18

摘要： Systems, apparatus and methods implemented in algorithms, hardware, software, firmware, logic, or circuitry may be configured to process data and sensory input to determine whether an object external to an autonomous vehicle (e.g., another vehicle, a pedestrian, road debris, a bicyclist, etc.) may be a potential collision threat to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle may be configured to implement interior active safety systems to protect passengers of the autonomous vehicle during a collision with an object or during evasive maneuvers by the autonomous vehicle, for example. The interior active safety systems may be configured to provide passengers with notice of an impending collision and/or emergency maneuvers by the vehicle by tensioning seat belts prior to executing an evasive maneuver and/or prior to a predicted point of collision.

公开(公告)号：US20180134207A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-17

申请号：US15613798

申请日：2017-06-05

申请人： Zoox, Inc.

发明人： Timothy David Kentley-Klay ,  Rachad Youssef Gamara

IPC分类号： B60Q1/26 ,  B60Q1/52 ,  G05D1/00

CPC分类号： G05D1/0214 ,  B60L3/0007 ,  B60L3/04 ,  B60L50/66 ,  B60L2200/40 ,  B60N2/002 ,  B60Q1/26 ,  B60Q1/50 ,  B60Q1/525 ,  B60R21/01 ,  B60R2021/01272 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W10/30 ,  B60W30/08 ,  B60W30/09 ,  B60W30/095 ,  B60W30/0956 ,  B60W30/18 ,  B60W2400/00 ,  B60W2420/52 ,  B60W2420/54 ,  B60W2550/10 ,  B60W2550/20 ,  B60W2550/30 ,  B60W2710/06 ,  B60W2710/08 ,  B60W2710/18 ,  B60W2710/20 ,  B60W2710/30 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/0255 ,  G05D1/0257 ,  Y02P90/60 ,  Y02T10/7005 ,  Y02T10/705

摘要： Systems, apparatus and methods may be configured to implement actively-controlled light emission from a robotic vehicle. A light emitter(s) of the robotic vehicle may be configurable to indicate a direction of travel of the robotic vehicle and/or display information (e.g., a greeting, a notice, a message, a graphic, passenger/customer/client content, vehicle livery, customized livery) using one or more colors of emitted light (e.g., orange for a first direction and purple for a second direction), one or more sequences of emitted light (e.g., a moving image/graphic), or positions of light emitter(s) on the robotic vehicle (e.g., symmetrically positioned light emitters). The robotic vehicle may not have a front or a back (e.g., a trunk/a hood) and may be configured to travel bi-directionally, in a first direction or a second direction (e.g., opposite the first direction), with the direction of travel being indicated by one or more of the light emitters.

公开(公告)号：US20170132934A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-11

申请号：US14933469

申请日：2015-11-05

申请人： Zoox, Inc.

发明人： Timothy David Kentley ,  Rachad Youssef Gamara ,  Gary Linscott

IPC分类号： G08G1/00 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G01C21/34

CPC分类号： G08G1/202 ,  G01C21/34 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G06K9/00791 ,  G06K9/00805 ,  G06Q10/02 ,  G06Q10/063 ,  G06Q50/30

摘要： Various embodiments relate generally to autonomous vehicles and associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an autonomous vehicle fleet as a service. In particular, a method may include receiving, from a user device, a ride request to transport a user to a destination from an origin location through an autonomous vehicle system service. Based on the origin location associated with the request, an autonomous vehicle system may be selected from a fleet of autonomous vehicles to execute the ride request. The fleet may be managed by the autonomous vehicle system service. The ride request may then be provided to the autonomous vehicle system, and information about the autonomous vehicle system may also be provided to the user device.

公开(公告)号：US09507346B1

公开(公告)日：2016-11-29

申请号：US14932966

申请日：2015-11-04

申请人： Zoox, Inc.

发明人： Jesse Sol Levinson ,  Timothy David Kentley ,  Gabriel Thurston Sibley ,  Rachad Youssef Gamara ,  Ashutosh Gajanan Rege ,  Gary Linscott

IPC分类号： G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G09G5/36 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/0481

CPC分类号： B60W30/09 ,  B60W30/0956 ,  B60W2420/42 ,  B60W2420/52 ,  B60W2550/10 ,  B60W2550/402 ,  B60W2710/18 ,  B60W2710/20 ,  B60W2710/30 ,  G05D1/0027 ,  G05D1/0044 ,  G05D2201/0213 ,  G06F3/1454 ,  G06F3/147 ,  G09G5/14 ,  G09G2360/08 ,  G09G2370/16 ,  G09G2380/10 ,  H04W4/44

摘要： Various embodiments relate generally to autonomous vehicles and associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an autonomous vehicle fleet as a service. More specifically, systems, devices, and methods are configured to initiate modification of trajectories to influence navigation of autonomous vehicles. In particular, a method may include receiving a teleoperation message via a communication link from an autonomous vehicle, detecting data from the teleoperation message specifying an event associated with the autonomous vehicle, identifying one or more courses of action to perform responsive to detecting the data specifying the event, and generating visualization data to present information associated with the event to a display of a teleoperator computing device.

摘要翻译： 各种实施例通常涉及自主车辆和相关的机械，电气和电子硬件，计算机软件和系统以及有线和无线网络通信，以提供作为服务的自主车队。 更具体地，系统，设备和方法被配置为启动轨迹的修改以影响自主车辆的导航。 特别地，一种方法可以包括经由来自自主车辆的通信链路接收远程操作消息，检测来自指定与自主车辆相关联的事件的远程操作消息的数据，识别响应于检测到指定的数据而执行的一个或多个操作行为 并且生成可视化数据以将与事件相关联的信息呈现给远程操作者计算设备的显示器。

公开(公告)号：US11500378B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-15

申请号：US15717812

申请日：2017-09-27

申请人： Zoox, Inc.

发明人： Timothy David Kentley-Klay ,  Rachad Youssef Gamara

IPC分类号： G05D1/00 ,  B60Q1/50 ,  B60Q5/00 ,  B60N2/42 ,  B60R21/01 ,  B60W30/08 ,  G08G1/005 ,  G08G1/0962 ,  G08G1/16 ,  G10K11/34 ,  B60Q1/26 ,  B60Q1/44 ,  G08G1/00 ,  B60Q1/00 ,  G08G1/056 ,  G05D1/02 ,  B60Q1/08 ,  G06V20/58 ,  B60R21/36 ,  G10K11/18

摘要： Systems, apparatus and methods implemented in algorithms, software, firmware, logic, or circuitry may be configured to process data and sensory input to determine whether an object external to an autonomous vehicle (e.g., another vehicle, a pedestrian, a bicyclist, etc.) may be a potential collision threat to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle may include a light emitter positioned external to a surface of the autonomous vehicle and being configured to implement a visual alert by emitting light from the light emitter. Data representing a light pattern may be received by the light emitter and the light emitted by the display may be indicative of the light pattern. The light pattern may be selected to gain the attention of the object (e.g., a pedestrian, a driver of a car, a bicyclists, etc.) in order to avoid the potential collision or to alert the object to the presence of the autonomous vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US11067983B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-20

申请号：US15830915

申请日：2017-12-04

申请人： Zoox, Inc.

发明人： Timothy David Kentley-Klay ,  Rachad Youssef Gamara

IPC分类号： G05D1/00 ,  B60W30/00 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G01C21/26 ,  G08G1/00 ,  G01C21/34 ,  G06Q10/00 ,  G07C5/00 ,  G01S17/87 ,  G01S13/86 ,  G08G1/16 ,  G06Q50/30 ,  G01S7/497 ,  G06Q10/02 ,  G06Q10/06

摘要： Various embodiments relate generally to autonomous vehicles and associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an autonomous vehicle fleet as a service. More specifically, systems, devices, and methods are configured to manage a fleet of autonomous vehicles. In particular, a method may include determining destination locations for autonomous vehicles, calculating, at an autonomous vehicle service platform, delivery locations to which the autonomous vehicles are directed, identifying data to implement a delivery location associated with an autonomous vehicle, and transmitting data representing a command to the autonomous vehicle. The command may be configured to cause navigation of the autonomous vehicle to the delivery location.

公开(公告)号：US20200371533A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16927986

申请日：2020-07-13

申请人： Zoox, Inc.

发明人： Timothy David Kentley-Klay ,  Jesse Sol Levinson ,  Rachad Youssef Gamara ,  Gabriel Thurston Sibley

IPC分类号： G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B60Q1/26 ,  G07C5/00 ,  G01S7/497 ,  G08G1/16 ,  G08G1/005 ,  G01S17/875 ,  G01S15/931 ,  G08G1/00 ,  B60Q1/50 ,  G01S15/86 ,  G01S17/86 ,  G01S17/931

摘要： Various embodiments relate generally to autonomous vehicles and associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an autonomous vehicle fleet as a service. In particular, a method may include monitoring a fleet of vehicles, at least one of which is configured to autonomously transit from a first geographic region to a second geographic region, detecting data indicating an event associated with the vehicle having a calculated confidence level, receiving data representing a subset of candidate trajectories responsive to detecting the event, which is associated with a planned path for the vehicle, identifying guidance data to select from one or more of the candidate trajectories as a guided trajectory, receiving data representing a selection of a candidate trajectory, and transmitting the selection of the candidate trajectory as of the guided trajectory to the vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20180033310A1

公开(公告)日：2018-02-01

申请号：US15666269

申请日：2017-08-01

申请人： Zoox, Inc.

发明人： Timothy David Kentley-Klay ,  Rachad Youssef Gamara ,  Gary Linscott

IPC分类号： G08G1/00 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G01C21/34 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06Q10/02 ,  G06Q50/30

摘要： Various embodiments relate generally to autonomous vehicles and associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an autonomous vehicle fleet as a service. In particular, a method may include receiving, from a user device, a ride request to transport a user to a destination from an origin location through an autonomous vehicle system service. Based on the origin location associated with the request, an autonomous vehicle system may be selected from a fleet of autonomous vehicles to execute the ride request. The fleet may be managed by the autonomous vehicle system service. The ride request may then be provided to the autonomous vehicle system, and information about the autonomous vehicle system may also be provided to the user device.

公开(公告)号：US20170120803A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-04

申请号：US14756994

申请日：2015-11-04

申请人： Zoox Inc.

发明人： Timothy David Kentley ,  Rachad Youssef Gamara

IPC分类号： B60Q1/26 ,  B60Q1/52 ,  G05D1/00

CPC分类号： G05D1/0214 ,  B60L3/0007 ,  B60L3/04 ,  B60L11/1877 ,  B60L2200/40 ,  B60N2/002 ,  B60Q1/26 ,  B60Q1/525 ,  B60R21/01 ,  B60R2021/01272 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W10/30 ,  B60W30/08 ,  B60W30/09 ,  B60W30/095 ,  B60W30/0956 ,  B60W30/18 ,  B60W2400/00 ,  B60W2420/52 ,  B60W2420/54 ,  B60W2550/10 ,  B60W2550/20 ,  B60W2550/30 ,  B60W2710/06 ,  B60W2710/08 ,  B60W2710/18 ,  B60W2710/20 ,  B60W2710/30 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/0248 ,  G05D1/0255 ,  G05D1/0257 ,  G05D2201/0213 ,  Y02P90/60 ,  Y02T10/7005 ,  Y02T10/705

摘要： Systems, apparatus and methods may be configured to implement actively-controlled light emission from a robotic vehicle. A light emitter(s) of the robotic vehicle may be configurable to indicate a direction of travel of the robotic vehicle and/or display information (e.g., a greeting, a notice, a message, a graphic, passenger/customer/client content, vehicle livery, customized livery) using one or more colors of emitted light (e.g., orange for a first direction and purple for a second direction), one or more sequences of emitted light (e.g., a moving image/graphic), or positions of light emitter(s) on the robotic vehicle (e.g., symmetrically positioned light emitters). The robotic vehicle may not have a front or a back (e.g., a trunk/a hood) and may be configured to travel bi-directionally, in a first direction or a second direction (e.g., opposite the first direction), with the direction of travel being indicated by one or more of the light emitters.