Systems and methods for infant track association with radar detections for velocity transfer

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising programming instructions that are configured to cause the processor to implement a method for operating a sensor system, wherein the programming instructions comprise instructions to:
• receive a track for an object;
• classify the track as an infant track or a mature track based on a type of sensor detection used to generate the track, a total number of cycles in which the lidar detections were generated, a total number of sensor detections included in the track, an object type associated with the track, an object speed, or a distance between the object and the sensor system;
• and
• use radar data to modify a speed of the track in response to the track being classified as an infant track.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions that, when executed by at least one computing device, will cause the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a track for an object;
• classifying the track as an infant track or a mature track based on a type of sensor detection used to generate the track, a total number of cycles in which the lidar detections were generated, a total number of sensor detections included in the track, an object type associated with the track, an object speed, or a distance between the object and the sensor system;
• and
• using radar data to modify a speed of the track in response to the track being classified as an infant track.