Detecting deviations in driving behavior for autonomous vehicles
AssigneeUber Technologies, Inc.
InventorsBrett Browning, Narek Melik-Barkhudarov, Adam Milstein
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Abstract
A system to use submaps to control operation of a vehicle is disclosed. A storage system may be provided with a vehicle to store a collection of submaps that represent a geographic area where the vehicle may be driven. A programmatic interface may be provided to receive submaps and submap updates independently of other submaps.
Claims20
A method for providing guidance to autonomous vehicles, the method comprising:
- obtaining sensor information for a road segment from multiple instances of at least one autonomous vehicle driving through the road segment;
- identifying, from the sensor information, a deviation from a normal or permitted driving behavior amongst a plurality of vehicles that utilize the road segment;
- and
- updating an instruction set for one or more autonomous vehicles that is to use the road segment in order to implement the deviation.
A computer system comprising:
- a communication interface for communicating with one or more autonomous vehicles
- a memory to store instructions;
- one or more processors, executing the instructions to:
- obtain, using the communication interface, sensor information for a road segment from multiple instances of at least one autonomous vehicle driving through the road segment;
- identify, from the sensor information, a deviation from a normal or permitted driving behavior amongst a plurality of vehicles that utilize the road segment;
- and
- update an instruction set for the one or more autonomous vehicles in order to implement the deviation when the one or more autonomous vehicles use the road segment.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, cause a computer system of the one or more processors to perform operations that comprise:
- obtaining sensor information for a road segment from multiple instances of at least one autonomous vehicle driving through the road segment;
- identifying, from the sensor information, a deviation from a normal or permitted driving behavior amongst a plurality of vehicles that utilize the road segment;
- and
- updating an instruction set for one or more autonomous vehicles that is to use the road segment in order to implement the deviation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.