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US 9,760,092 B2Granted
Actively modifying a field of view of an autonomous vehicle in view of constraints
AssigneeWaymo LLC
InventorsDavid I. Ferguson, Jiajun Zhu
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AssigneeWaymo LLC
InventorsDavid I. Ferguson, Jiajun Zhu
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Methods and devices for actively modifying a field of view of an autonomous vehicle in view of constraints are disclosed. In one embodiment, an example method is disclosed that includes causing a sensor in an autonomous vehicle to sense information about an environment in a first field of view, where a portion of the environment is obscured in the first field of view. The example method further includes determining a desired field of view in which the portion of the environment is not obscured and, based on the desired field of view and a set of constraints for the vehicle, determining a second field of view in which the portion of the environment is less obscured than in the first field of view. The example method further includes modifying a position of the vehicle, thereby causing the sensor to sense information in the second field of view.
A method comprising:
An autonomous vehicle comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to perform the functions of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.