US 2025/0060459 A1 · INCREASING SENSOR FREQUENCY

Abstract

The present disclosure generally relates to techniques to increase the functional frequency of a LIDAR sensor of an autonomous vehicle without increasing the physical frequency. In some aspects, a method of the disclosed technology includes steps for collecting, using a LIDAR sensor of an autonomous vehicle (AV), first sensor data during a first portion of a scan performed by the LIDAR sensor; collecting, using the LIDAR sensor of the autonomous vehicle, second sensor data during a second portion of the scan performed by the LIDAR sensor, the first sensor data and the second sensor data measuring different portions of a scene; skipping collection of additional sensor data during a third portion of the scan performed by the LIDAR sensor; and estimating the additional sensor data based on a field-of-view (FOV) of the LIDAR sensor during the third portion of the scan. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

at least one memory;
and
at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory, the at least one processor configured to:
trigger a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor to collect first sensor data during a first portion of a scan cycle performed by the LIDAR sensor;
trigger the LIDAR sensor to skip collection of additional sensor data during a second portion of the scan cycle performed by the LIDAR sensor;
and
estimate the additional sensor data based on a field-of-view (FOV) of the LIDAR sensor during the second portion of the scan.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Increasing sensor frequency

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Abstract

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