Off-road machine-learned obstacle navigation in an autonomous vehicle environment

An autonomous off-road vehicle comprising a hardware processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, when executed by the hardware processor, cause the autonomous off-road vehicle to perform steps comprising:

• while autonomously navigating along a route, identifying an obstruction obstructing the route;
• determining a confidence score representative of whether the obstruction can be ignored as the autonomous off-road vehicle navigates along the route such that if the confidence score is greater than a first threshold, the obstruction cannot be ignored and if the confidence score is less than a second threshold, the obstruction can be ignored;
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• in response to the confidence score being less than the first threshold and greater than the second threshold, applying a machine-learned model to sensor data representative of the obstruction, the machine-learned model configured to indicate whether the obstruction can be ignored or cannot be ignored.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, when executed by a hardware processor, cause an autonomous off-road vehicle to perform steps comprising:

• while autonomously navigating along a route, identifying an obstruction obstructing the route;
• determining a confidence score representative of whether the obstruction can be ignored as the autonomous off-road vehicle navigates along the route such that if the confidence score is greater than a first threshold, the obstruction cannot be ignored and if the confidence score is less than a second threshold, the obstruction can be ignored;
• and
• in response to the confidence score being less than the first threshold and greater than the second threshold, applying a machine-learned model to sensor data representative of the obstruction, the machine-learned model configured to indicate whether the obstruction can be ignored or cannot be ignored.