US 2020/0051327 A1 · PROCEDURAL WORLD GENERATION

Abstract

Procedural generation of simulated environments is described herein. In an example, a computing device can access road network data associated with a real environment. Further, the computing device can generate, based on the sensor data, a road mesh associated with the real environment. The computing device can associate the road network data with the road mesh to generate a simulated environment and can procedurally render at least one object into the simulated environment based at least in part on at least one rule. The computing device can output the simulated environment for at least one of testing, validating, or training an algorithm used by an autonomous vehicle for at least one of navigating, planning, or decision making.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving sensor data from a plurality of data collection devices in a real environment;
accessing a road network data associated with the real environment, the road network data associated with the real environment;
generating, based at least in part on the sensor data, a road mesh associated with the real environment;
integrating the road network data with the road mesh to generate a simulated environment;
accessing a data storage of stored object footprints;
selecting a stored object footprint from the data storage of the stored object footprints;
rendering at least one object corresponding to the stored object footprint into the simulated environment;
rendering a surface detail associated with the at least one object;
and
outputting the simulated environment for at least one of testing, validating, or training an algorithm used by an autonomous robotic computing device for at least one of navigating, planning, or decision making.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

accessing road network data associated with a real environment;
generating a road mesh associated with the real environment;
integrating the road network data with the road mesh to generate a simulated environment;
procedurally rendering at least one object into the simulated environment based at least in part on at least one rule;
and
outputting the simulated environment via a computing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Abstract

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