Temporal data associations for operating autonomous vehicles
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorGautier Minster
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Abstract
Systems and method are provided for controlling a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: selecting, by a controller onboard the vehicle, first data for a region from a first device onboard the vehicle based on a relationship between a time associated with the first data and a frequency associated with a second device, obtaining, by the controller, second data from the second device, the second data corresponding to the region, correlating, by the controller, the first data and the second data, and determining, by the controller, a command for operating one or more actuators onboard the vehicle in a manner that is influenced by the correlation between the first data and the second data.
Claims17
A method of controlling a vehicle, the method comprising:
- obtaining, by a controller onboard the vehicle from a ranging device onboard the vehicle, ranging data corresponding to a field of view of a camera onboard the vehicle, the ranging device scanning an environment around the vehicle at a first frequency;
- selecting, by the controller, an image from a plurality of images captured by the camera based on a relationship between a timestamp associated with the image and the first frequency associated with the ranging device, wherein the plurality of images are captured at a second frequency different from the first frequency;
- correlating, by the controller, the image and the ranging data;
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- determining, by the controller, a command for operating one or more actuators onboard the vehicle in a manner that is influenced by the correlation between the image and the ranging data.
A vehicle, comprising:
- a camera onboard the vehicle capturing a plurality of images of a field of view at a first frequency;
- a ranging device onboard the vehicle scanning an environment around the vehicle at a second frequency different from the first frequency to obtain ranging data;
- one or more actuators onboard the vehicle;
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- a controller that, by a processor, selects an image of the plurality of images based on a relationship between a timestamp associated with the image and the second frequency associated with the second device, correlates the image with a subset of the ranging data corresponding to the field of view, and autonomously operates the one or more actuators onboard the vehicle in a manner that is influenced by the correlation between the image and the subset of ranging data.
A method of controlling a vehicle, the method comprising:
- obtaining, by a control module onboard the vehicle, a plurality of images from a camera onboard the vehicle, the camera capturing the plurality of images of a field of view at a first frequency;
- obtaining, by the control module, ranging data from a ranging device onboard the vehicle, the ranging device scanning an environment around the vehicle at a second frequency different from the first frequency;
- correlating, by the control module, a first image of the plurality of images with a subset of the ranging data corresponding to the field of view based on a relationship between a timestamp associated with the first image and the second frequency;
- determining, by the control module, a command for operating one or more actuators onboard the vehicle in a manner that is influenced by the correlation between the first image and the subset of the ranging data;
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- autonomously operating, by the control module, the one or more actuators in accordance with the command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.