70 patents
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LIDAR sensor system
16 Jan 24
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system for a vehicle includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a scanner.
Edward Joseph Angus, Zeb William Barber, Andrew Steil Michaels, Evan Rogers
Filed: 18 Aug 22
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Redundant lateral velocity determination and use in secondary vehicle control systems
16 Jan 24
An autonomous vehicle uses a secondary vehicle control system to supplement a primary vehicle control system to perform a controlled stop if an adverse event is detected in the primary vehicle control system.
Ethan Eade, Nathaniel Gist, IV, Thomas Pilarski
Filed: 3 Jun 22
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Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle control using depolarization ratio of return signal
2 Jan 24
An autonomous vehicle control system includes one or more processors.
Stephen Crouch, Zeb Barber, Emil Kadlec, Ryan Galloway, Sean Spillane
Filed: 5 Oct 21
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Chip packaging in light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system
2 Jan 24
An integrated chip packaging for a LIDAR sensor mounted to a vehicle includes a laser assembly configured to output a beam, an optical amplifier array chip configured to amplify a beam, and a transceiver chip coupled to the laser assembly and the optical amplifier array chip.
Colin Delaney, James Ferrara, Stefan Heinemann, Amir Hosseini, Pruthvi Jujjavarapu, Yongxuan Liang, Parth Panchal, Zhizhong Tang
Filed: 16 Nov 22
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Multimodal perception simulation
19 Dec 23
A concurrent simulation of multiple sensor modalities includes identifying the multiple sensor modalities in association with a simulation scenario, determining a timeline interleaving a publishing or operating frequency of each of the multiple sensor modalities relative to each other, determining a current time interval of a sliding window in the timeline, determining a simulation segment of the simulation scenario using the current time interval of the sliding window, rendering a scene based on the simulation segment, executing a simulation to concurrently simulate the multiple sensor modalities using ray tracing in the rendered scene, and generating simulated sensor data of the multiple sensor modalities based on executing the simulation.
Ivona Andrzejewski, Steven Capell, Ryusuke Villemin, Carl Magnus Wrenninge
Filed: 22 Feb 23
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LIDAR system
12 Dec 23
A LIDAR system includes a laser source, a first scanner, and a second scanner.
Zeb William Barber, Stephen C. Crouch, Ryan Moore Galloway, Edward Joseph Angus, Emil Kadlec
Filed: 25 Jan 22
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Silicon photonics device for LIDAR sensor and method for fabrication
5 Dec 23
A structure of a silicon photonics device for LIDAR includes a first insulating structure and a second insulating structure disposed above one or more etched silicon structures overlying a substrate member.
Sen Lin, Andrew Steil Michaels
Filed: 31 Oct 22
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Labeling autonomous vehicle data
28 Nov 23
One or more instances of sensor data collected using an autonomous vehicle sensor suite can be labeled using corresponding instance(s) of sensor data collected using an additional sensor suite.
Jean-Sebastien Valois, Ethan Eade
Filed: 12 Mar 20
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System and Method for Generating Information on Remainder of Measurement Using Sensor Data
23 Nov 23
A method may include obtaining lidar data comprising a plurality of lidar returns from an environment of an autonomous vehicle.
Jake Charland, Ethan Eade, Karthik Lakshmanan, Daniel Munoz, Samuel Sean, Yuchen Xie, Luona Yang
Filed: 13 Feb 23
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Autonomous vehicle remote teleoperations system
21 Nov 23
A teleoperations system may be used to modify elements in the mapping data used by an autonomous vehicle to cause the autonomous vehicle to control its trajectory based on the modified elements.
Gwennael Herve Jonathan Gate, Dmitriy Kislovskiy, Narek Melik-Barkhudarov, Nathaniel Gist, IV
Filed: 19 Dec 22
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Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system having a liquid cooled cold plate
14 Nov 23
A LIDAR system for a vehicle is provided.
Nicholas Buoniconti, Cal Smith, Thomas Jeffery Watson, Jr.
Filed: 21 Oct 22
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Removable Automotive LIDAR Data Collection POD
2 Nov 23
A vehicle agnostic removable pod can be mounted on a vehicle using one or more legs of a pod mount.
Nathaniel Gist, IV, Christopher Williams
Filed: 9 May 23
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Goal-based motion forecasting
31 Oct 23
Example aspects of the present disclosure relate to an example computer-implemented method for predicting the intent of actors within an environment.
Sanjiban Choudhury, Sumit Kumar, Micol Marchetti-Bowick
Filed: 28 Dec 22
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Lidar System
19 Oct 23
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system includes a window, a laser source configured to generate a beam, one or more scanning optics configured to output the beam through the window, and a sensor.
Edward Joseph Angus, Craig Benko
Filed: 14 Apr 22
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Multistage autonomous vehicle motion planning
17 Oct 23
Example methods for multistage autonomous vehicle motion planning include obtaining sensor data descriptive of an environment of the autonomous vehicle; identifying one or more objects in the environment based on the sensor data; generating a plurality of candidate strategies, wherein each candidate strategy of the plurality of candidate strategies comprises a set of discrete decisions respecting the one or more objects, wherein generating the plurality of candidate strategies includes: determining that at least two strategies satisfy an equivalence criterion, such that the plurality of candidate strategies include at least one candidate strategy corresponding to an equivalence class representative of a plurality of different strategies that are based on different discrete decisions; determining candidate trajectories respectively for the plurality of candidate strategies; and initiating control of the autonomous vehicle based on a selected candidate trajectory.
James Andrew Bagnell, Shervin Javdani, Venkatraman Narayanan
Filed: 18 Nov 22
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LIDAR sensor system
17 Oct 23
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for a vehicle includes a transmitter, a receiver, one or more scanning optics, and a circulator.
Andy Michaels, Evan Rogers
Filed: 11 Aug 22
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Training machine learning model for controlling autonomous vehicle
10 Oct 23
Techniques are disclosed for training one or more cost functions of an autonomous vehicle (“AV”) control system based on difference between data generated using the AV control system and manual driving data.
Arun Venkatraman, James Andrew Bagnell
Filed: 29 Dec 20
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Generating testing instances for autonomous vehicles
3 Oct 23
Sensor data collected from an autonomous vehicle can be labeled using sensor data collected from an additional vehicle.
Jean-Sebastien Valois, Daniel Munoz
Filed: 9 Aug 21
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Distributed radar antenna array aperture
19 Sep 23
A vehicle radar system utilizes multiple radar sensors having overlapping fields of view to effectively synthesize a distributed radar antenna array aperture from the outputs of the multiple radar sensors and effectively enhance one or more of angular resolution, detection range and signal to noise ratio beyond that supported by any of the radar sensors individually.
Stephen Crouch, Chunshu Li
Filed: 23 Dec 20
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Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system including a modular assembly
12 Sep 23
A modular LIDAR system comprising a seed laser configured to output a beam, a modular modulator coupled to receive the beam output the seed laser and modulate the beam to create a modulated beam, a modular amplifier coupled to receive the modulated beam from the modular modulator and generate an amplified beam, and a modular transceiver chip coupled to the modular modulator and the modular amplifier, the transceiver chip configured to emit the beam perpendicularly from a first surface of the transceiver chip through an optical window; and receive a reflected beam from a target through the optical window.
Ashish Bhardwaj, Colin Delaney, Stefan Heinemann, Amir Hosseini, Pruthvi Jujjavarapu, Parth Panchai, Zhizhong Tang
Filed: 30 Dec 22