Contextually-aware dynamic safety envelope for autonomous vehicles

    公开(公告)号:US11760381B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-19

    申请号:US17196945

    申请日:2021-03-09

    Inventor: Drew Gray

    Abstract: A vehicle with autonomous navigation abilities ensures that the vehicle will remain within a safe driving region, such as the current lane, even in the case of a system failure. The vehicle's autonomous control subsystem computes driving parameters used to follow a path of the vehicle toward the current destination. These driving parameters are used to compute a safety envelope describing a region that the vehicle could reach from the present position in case of system failure before coming to a stop. The safety envelope is compared to a current safe driving region, and if the safety envelope violates the boundaries of the safe driving region, the driving parameters and corresponding safety envelopes are recomputed until the currently-computed safety envelope no longer violates the boundaries of the safe driving region.

    Autonomous driving requirements deficiency determination

    公开(公告)号:US12060079B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-13

    申请号:US16872604

    申请日:2020-05-12

    Inventor: Shunsho Kaku

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to resolving one or more deficiencies in autonomous driving requirements for a road segment. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data for a portion of the road segment from at least one sensor of a vehicle, and determining autonomous driving requirements for the portion of the road segment. The method includes identifying the one or more deficiencies in the autonomous driving requirements for the portion of the road segment based on the received sensor data and the determined autonomous driving requirements for the portion of the road segment. The method includes determining an alteration to the portion of the road segment to overcome the one or more deficiencies in the autonomous driving requirements for the portion of the road segment.

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