Using wheel orientation to determine future heading
AssigneeWaymo LLC
InventorJens-Steffen Ralf Gutmann
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Abstract
The technology relates to determining a future heading of an object. In order to do so, sensor data, including information identifying a bounding box representing an object in a vehicle's environment and locations of sensor data points corresponding to the object, may be received. Based on dimensions of the bounding box, an area corresponding to a wheel of the object may be identified. An orientation of the wheel may then be estimated based on the sensor data points having locations within the area. The estimation may then be used to determine a future heading of the object.
Claims19
A method of determining a future behavior of an object, the method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more processors, sensor data including information identifying an object in a vehicle's environment and sensor data corresponding to the object;
- identifying, by the one or more processors, an area corresponding to an expected location of a wheel of the object based on a type of the object;
- identifying, by the one or more processors, a portion of the sensor data that is within the area;
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- determining, by the one or more processors, a future behavior of the object based on the portion of the sensor data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.