System and method for autonomous vehicle control to minimize energy cost

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by a system, cause the system to:

• generate vehicle motion control operations to cause an autonomous vehicle to navigate a routing between a current location of the autonomous vehicle and a destination;
• predict an energy consumption rate for the routing;
• and
• modify the vehicle motion control operations while the autonomous vehicle navigates the routing to cause an actual energy consumption rate of the autonomous vehicle over the routing to be less than the predicted energy consumption rate.

A system comprising:

• a data processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the data processor, cause the data processor to:
• generate vehicle motion control operations to cause an autonomous vehicle to navigate a routing between a current location of the autonomous vehicle and a destination;
• predict an energy consumption rate for the routing;
• and
• modify the vehicle motion control operations while the autonomous vehicle navigates the routing to cause an actual energy consumption rate of the autonomous vehicle over the routing to be less than the predicted energy consumption rate.