Autonomous Vehicle with Independent Auxiliary Control Units

An autonomous vehicle control system for controlling an autonomous vehicle, the autonomous vehicle control system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer readable media storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to cause the autonomous vehicle control system to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• receiving, from one or more first sensors, a first sensor input descriptive of an environment of the autonomous vehicle;
• determining, using a first control subsystem and based at least in part on the first sensor input, a first determined state of the environment, the first determined state associated with a confidence score;
• receiving, from one or more second sensors, a second sensor input descriptive of the environment;
• determining, using a second control subsystem and based at least in part on the second sensor input, a second determined state of the environment;
• and
• determining, based at least in part on the confidence score, to implement a vehicle response output of the second control subsystem, the vehicle response output based at least in part on the second determined state of the environment.

One or more tangible, non-transitory, computer readable media storing, instructions that are executable by one or more processors to cause an autonomous vehicle control system of an autonomous vehicle to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving, from one or more first sensors, a first sensor input descriptive of an environment of the autonomous vehicle;
• determining, using a first control subsystem and based at least in part on the first sensor input, a first determined state of the environment, the first determined state associated with a confidence score;
• receiving, from one or more second sensors, a second sensor input descriptive of the environment;
• determining, using a second control subsystem and based at least in part on the second sensor input, a second determined state of the environment;
• and
• determining, based at least in part on the confidence score, to implement a vehicle response output of the second control subsystem, the vehicle response output based at least in part on the second determined state of the environment.

One or more tangible, non-transitory, computer readable media storing instructions that are executable by one or more processors to cause an autonomous vehicle control system of an autonomous vehicle to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving, from one or more first sensors, a first sensor input descriptive of an environment of the autonomous vehicle;
• determining, using a first control subsystem and based at least in part on the first sensor input, a first determined state of the environment, the first determined state associated with a confidence score;
• receiving, from one or more second sensors, a second sensor input descriptive of the environment;
• determining, using a second control subsystem and based at least in part on the second sensor input, a second determined state of the environment;
• and
• determining, based at least in part on the confidence score, to implement a vehicle response output of the second control subsystem, the vehicle response output based at least in part on the second determined state of the environment.