US 2026/0091791 A1 · INCREMENTAL BOOTING OF FUNCTIONS FOR AUTONOMOUS AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

Abstract

In various examples, incremental booting of functions for autonomous systems and applications is described herein. Systems and methods are disclosed that boot functions of a machine using different phases in order to more quickly provide at least a portion of the functions without compromising the safety of the machine. For example, during a first phase, resources associated with the machine may be allocated while the functions are initialized. Additionally, at least a first portion of the functions, such as functions that do not compromise the safety of the machine if errors occur, may be made available for use by one or more users of the machine. Next, during a second phase, at least a second portion of the functions, such as functions that may compromise the safety of the machine if errors occur, may be made available for use by the user(s) of the machine.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

causing, during a first operating phase of a machine, a first function to be available for use based at least on the first function being initialized;
causing, during the first operating phase of the machine, a second function to be unavailable for use even after the second function is initialized;
causing, during a second operating phase of the machine that occurs after the first operating phase, the second function to be available for use;
and
causing, based at least on the second function, the machine to perform one or more planning, navigation, or control operations.

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An autonomous or semi-autonomous machine comprising:

one or more central processing units (CPUs);
one or more graphics processing units (GPUs);
one or more hardware accelerators;
and
one or more external sensors having one or more fields of view or one or more sensory fields external to the autonomous or semi-autonomous machine,
wherein the autonomous or semi-autonomous machine is to:
cause, during a first operating phase, a first function to be made available for use after initialization and a second function to be made unavailable for use after initialization;
cause, during a second operating phase that is different than the first operating phase, the second function to be made available for use;
and
perform one or more planning, navigation, or control operations based at least on the second function.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

19/413,899Filed 9 Dec 2025

Priority

9 Aug 2023

Published

2 Apr 2026

Term ends

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Classification10 codes

G05D 1/0088
Control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or space vehicles, e.g. using automatic pilots: characterized by the…
B60W 50/029
Ensuring safety in case of control system failures, e.g. by diagnosing, circumventing or fixing failures: adapting to failures or work around with…
G05D 1/0055
Control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or space vehicles, e.g. using automatic pilots: with safety arrangements
B60W 2050/0006
In digital systems, e.g. discrete-time systems involving sampling: digital architecture hierarchy

Incremental booting of functions for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems and applications

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Incremental booting of functions for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems and applications

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Abstract

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