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US 10,850,734 B2Granted
Processing a request signal regarding operation of an autonomous vehicle
AssigneeMotional AD LLC
InventorsHarshavardhan Ravichandran, Karl Iagnemma, Eric Wolff
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Abstract
Among other things, a vehicle drives autonomously on a trajectory through a road network to a goal location based on an automatic process for planning the trajectory without human intervention; and an automatic process alters the planning of the trajectory to reach a target location based on a request received from an occupant of the vehicle to engage in a speed-reducing maneuver.
Claims51
A method comprising:
- causing a vehicle to drive autonomously on a trajectory through a road network to a goal location based on an automatic process for planning the trajectory without human intervention;
- receiving a request from an occupant of the vehicle to engage in a speed-reducing maneuver;
- and
- in response to receiving the request:
- determining a region potentially comprising a target location based on qualities of one or more target locations,
- choosing the target location in the region by discretizing the region into potential target places shaped to accommodate the vehicle, and
- causing the automatic process to alter the planning of the trajectory to reach the target location.
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A method comprising:
- causing a vehicle to drive autonomously on a trajectory through a road network to a goal location based on an automatic process for planning the trajectory without human intervention;
- receiving a request from an occupant of the vehicle to engage in a speed-reducing maneuver;
- and
- in response to receiving the request:
- determining a region potentially comprising a target location based on qualities of one or more target locations, wherein the region comprises a shape or a size or both,
- determining the shape or the size of the region based on a traffic condition or on a degree of urgency or on both, and
- causing the automatic process to alter the planning of the trajectory to reach the target location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.