Autonomous vehicle panel and post detection

A sensing and navigation (S&N) system for an autonomous vehicle, comprising a memory and a processor, and capable of locating obstacles in an environment local to said autonomous vehicle, the system comprising at least one subsystem for:

• directly sensing, by the autonomous vehicle, the environment local to said autonomous vehicle to produce direct sensing data;
• determining a dynamic location and dynamic orientation of a dynamic object in the environment local to said autonomous vehicle based on the direct sensing data;
• determining a stationary location for a stationary object in the environment local to said autonomous vehicle based on the dynamic location and dynamic orientation of the dynamic object;
• and
• navigating the autonomous vehicle to within a desired proximity of the stationary object.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing system logically coupled to an autonomous vehicle, cause the computing system to:

• directly sense the environment local to said autonomous vehicle to produce direct sensing data;
• determine a dynamic location and dynamic orientation of a dynamic object in the environment local to said autonomous vehicle based on the direct sensing data;
• determine a stationary location for a stationary object in the environment local to said autonomous vehicle based on the dynamic location and dynamic orientation of the dynamic object;
• and
• navigate the autonomous vehicle to within a desired proximity of the stationary object.