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US 11,780,466 B1Granted
Vehicle fleet remote ride comfort tuning management system
AssigneeZoox, Inc.
InventorPrateek Chandresh Shah
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Abstract
A vehicle may include an active ride comfort tuning system that reactively and/or proactively alters a parameter of a system of the autonomous vehicle to mitigate or avoid interruptions to ride smoothness. An indication that a ride smoothness interruption occurred at a vehicle may be generated at the vehicle and/or at a remote computing device. The remote computing device may determine an altered parameter for controlling how the vehicle operates and a ruleset for when the vehicle should implement the altered parameter in place of a nominal parameter.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a comfort indication associated with operation of a vehicle, wherein the comfort indication is associated with an interruption to ride smoothness;
- determining, based at least in part on log data associated with operation of the vehicle, a trajectory associated with the comfort indication;
- determining, based at least in part on the comfort indication and one or more additional comfort indications received from at least one of the vehicle or another vehicle, a feature associated with the comfort indication, wherein the feature identifies an output of a subcomponent of the vehicle that at least contributed to the comfort indication and at least one of a geographical region, scenario, time, or object type common to the comfort indication and the one or more additional comfort indications;
- altering, based at least in part on the comfort indication and the output of the subcomponent, a parameter of at least one of the subcomponent, a planning component, or a drive system of the vehicle to obtain an altered parameter;
- and
- transmitting, to the vehicle, the altered parameter and instructions to replace the parameter with the altered parameter based at least in part on detecting the feature.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a comfort indication associated with operation of a vehicle, wherein the comfort indication is associated with an interruption to ride smoothness;
- determining, based at least in part on log data associated with operation of the vehicle, a trajectory associated with the comfort indication;
- determining, based at least in part on the comfort indication and one or more additional comfort indications received from at least one of the vehicle or another vehicle, a feature associated with the comfort indication, wherein the feature identifies an output of a subcomponent of the vehicle that at least contributed to the comfort indication and at least one of a geographical region, scenario, time, or object type common to the comfort indication and the one or more additional comfort indications;
- altering, based at least in part on the comfort indication and the output of the subcomponent, a parameter of at least one of the subcomponent, a planning component, or a drive system of the vehicle to obtain an altered parameter;
- and
- transmitting, to the vehicle, the altered parameter and instructions to replace the parameter with the altered parameter based at least in part on detecting the feature.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a comfort indication associated with operation of a vehicle, wherein the comfort indication is associated with an interruption to ride smoothness;
- determining, based at least in part on log data associated with operation of the vehicle, a trajectory associated with the comfort indication;
- determining, based at least in part on the comfort indication and one or more additional comfort indications received from at least one of the vehicle or another vehicle, a feature associated with the comfort indication, wherein the feature identifies an output of a subcomponent of the vehicle that at least contributed to the comfort indication and at least one of a geographical region, scenario, time, or object type common to the comfort indication and the one or more additional comfort indications;
- altering, based at least in part on the comfort indication and the output of the subcomponent, a parameter of at least one of the subcomponent, a planning component, or a drive system of the vehicle to obtain an altered parameter;
- and
- transmitting, to the vehicle, the altered parameter and instructions to replace the parameter with the altered parameter based at least in part on detecting the feature.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.