Systems and methods for selectively capturing sensor data of an autonomous vehicle using a sensor guide rail

A method comprising:

• obtaining one or more parameters of an autonomous vehicle, the parameters including any of a position of the autonomous vehicle, a path of the autonomous vehicle, and a speed of the autonomous vehicle;
• identifying, based on the one or more parameters of the autonomous vehicle, a region of interest from a plurality of regions surrounding the autonomous vehicle;
• controlling, based on the region of interest, one or more sensors mounted on a sensor guide rail to move the one or more sensors along at least a portion of the autonomous vehicle, and to capture sensor data of the region of interest and not capture sensor data from the one or more other regions of the plurality of regions surrounding the autonomous vehicle, the sensor guide rail being mounted on a surface of the autonomous vehicle;
• and
• providing the captured sensor data to a processor, the processor being capable of facilitating, based on the captured sensor data of the region of interest, one or more autonomous vehicle driving actions.

A system comprising:

• an autonomous vehicle multi-region sensor system comprising a sensor guide rail capable of being mounted on a surface of an autonomous vehicle, the sensor guiderail configured to move one or more sensors along at least a portion of the autonomous vehicle, the one or more sensors capable of capturing sensor data of a plurality of regions surrounding the autonomous vehicle;
• an autonomous vehicle sensor data filtering system configured to:
• identify, based on one or more parameters of the autonomous vehicle, a region of interest from a plurality of regions surrounding an autonomous vehicle;
• filtering the sensor data to include only the sensor data of the region of interest;
• and
• provide the filtered sensor data to an autonomous vehicle sensor data processing system configured to facilitate, based on the filtered sensor data, performance of one or more autonomous vehicle driving actions.

A method comprising:

• capturing, using one or more sensors mounted on a sensor guide rail, the sensor guiderail being mounted on a surface of an autonomous vehicle, sensor data of a plurality of regions surrounding an autonomous vehicle, the sensor data being captured at a plurality of different points along the sensor guide rail;
• obtaining one or more parameters of an autonomous vehicle, the parameters including any of a position of the autonomous vehicle, a path of the autonomous vehicle, and a speed of the autonomous vehicle;
• identifying, based on the one or more parameters of the autonomous vehicle, a region of interest from a plurality of regions surrounding an autonomous vehicle;
• filtering, in response to the identifying the region of interest, the captured sensor data to include only the sensor data of the region of interest;
• and
• providing, in response to the filtering, the filtered data to a processor, the processor being capable of facilitating one or more autonomous vehicle driving actions based on the filtered data.