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US 10,139,828 B2Granted
Autonomous vehicle operated with safety augmentation
AssigneeUber Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJustin Ho, Noah Zych
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Abstract
An autonomous vehicle is operable to follow a primary trajectory that forms a portion of a route. While controlling the autonomous vehicle, the autonomous vehicle calculates a failsafe trajectory to follow as a response to a predetermined type of event.
Claims20
A method for operating an autonomous vehicle, the method comprising:
- while the autonomous vehicle travels on a route towards a destination, enabling the autonomous vehicle to anticipate one or more types of disabling failures or conditions by:
- obtaining sensor data from one or more sensors of the autonomous vehicle;
- identifying a location along or near the route where the autonomous vehicle can be stopped;
- calculating, based at least in part on the obtained sensor data, a failsafe trajectory for the autonomous vehicle to use to travel to the identified location as a response to a disabling failure or condition of the one or more types.
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A control system for an autonomous vehicle, the control system comprising:
- a memory to store instructions;
- one or more processing resources to execute the instructions stored in the memory, the instructions, when executed by the one or more processing resources, causing the control system to:
- while the autonomous vehicle travels on a route towards a destination, enable the autonomous vehicle to anticipate one or more types of disabling failures or conditions by:
- obtaining sensor data from one or more sensors of the autonomous vehicle;
- identifying a location along or near the route where the autonomous vehicle can be stopped;
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- calculating, based at least in part on the obtained sensor data, a failsafe trajectory for the autonomous vehicle to use to travel to the identified location as a response to a disabling failure or condition of the one or more types.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.