US 11,099,574 B2 · Internal safety systems for robotic vehicles

Abstract

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.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving sensor data from at least one sensor associated with a vehicle;
determining a location of the vehicle within an environment, wherein the location identifies one or more of a position or an orientation of the vehicle in the environment;
identifying, based at least in part on the sensor data, an object within the environment;
determining, based at least in part on the sensor data, a classification associated with the object;
determining, based at least in part on the sensor data, a trajectory of the object;
determining, based at least in part on the classification and the trajectory of the object, an object type associated with the object;
determining a future location associated with the object based at least in part on the object type;
selecting a safety system of the vehicle based at least in part on the future location associated with the object;
and
activating the safety system.

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A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving sensor data from at least one sensor associated with a vehicle;
determining a location of the vehicle within an environment;
identifying, based at least in part on the sensor data, an object within the environment;
determining, based at least in part on the sensor data, a classification associated with the object;
determining, based at least in part on the sensor data, a trajectory of the object;
determining, based at least in part on the classification and the trajectory of the object, an object type associated with the object;
determining a future location associated with the object based at least in part on the object type;
selecting a safety system of the vehicle based at least in part on the future location associated with the object;
and
activating the safety system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Internal safety systems for robotic vehicles

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Internal safety systems for robotic vehicles

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