Systems and methods for displaying autonomous vehicle environmental awareness

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• providing a visualization comprising a representation of a vehicle and a representation of a physical environment associated with the vehicle;
• receiving, from at least one sensor of the vehicle, sensor data associated with the physical environment;
• determining, based on the sensor data, movement of at least one object in the physical environment to occupy a new position relative to the vehicle;
• representing the movement of the at least one object with a smoothing effect by incrementally modifying a represented position of the object within the physical environment based at least in part on an amount of time that the object has occupied the new position;
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• providing an updated visualization showing the movement of the at least one object with the smoothing effect.

A system comprising:

• a display module, stored in memory, that provides a visualization comprising a representation of a vehicle and a representation of a physical environment associated with the vehicle;
• a receiving module, stored in memory, that receives, from at least one sensor of the vehicle, sensor data associated with the physical environment;
• a determination module, stored in memory, that determines, based on the sensor data, movement of at least one object in the physical environment to occupy a new position relative to the vehicle;
• a transformation module, stored in memory, that applies, to the sensor data, a transformation that represents the movement of the at least one object with a smoothing effect by incrementally modifying a represented position of the object within the physical environment based at least in part on an amount of time that the object has occupied the new position;
• and
• the display module providing an updated visualization showing the movement of the at least one object with the smoothing effect;
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• at least one physical processor that executes the display module, the receiving module, the determination module, and the transformation module.

A computer-readable medium comprising:

• computer-readable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to:
• provide a visualization comprising a representation of a vehicle and a representation of a physical environment associated with the vehicle;
• receive, from at least one sensor of the vehicle, sensor data associated with the physical environment;
• determine, based on the sensor data, movement of at least one object in the physical environment to occupy a new position relative to the vehicle;
• represent the movement of the at least one object with a smoothing effect by incrementally modifying a represented position of the object within the physical environment based at least in part on an amount of time that the object has occupied the new position;
• and
• provide an updated visualization showing the movement of the at least one object with the smoothing effect.