Aurora Operations, Inc.

Uatc, LLC

Chad Jonathan Staller

Daniel Adam Kanitz

John Paxton

Woonghee Han

Jon Wagner

Richard Brian Donnelly

Christopher Matthew D'Eramo

Wesly Mason Rice

Clifford Shaun Webb

Robert Kip Terhune

Andrew Joseph Chellman

Philipp Haban

Douglas Dallesandro

Systems and methods for maintaining autonomous vehicle operator awareness are provided. A method can include determining, by a computing system, an awareness challenge for an operator of a vehicle. The awareness challenge can be based on object data. The awareness challenge can have one or more criteria. The criteria can include a challenge response interval, a response time, and an action for satisfying the awareness challenge. The method can include initiating, by the computing system, a timer measuring elapsed time from a start time of the challenge response interval. The method can include communicating to the operator, by the computing system, a soft notification indicative of the awareness challenge during the challenge response interval. The method can include determining, by the computing system, whether the operator provides a user input after the response time interval and whether the user input corresponds to the action for satisfying the awareness challenge.

Vehicle operator awareness system

Right sensor wing

Left sensor wing

Sensor console

Sensor platform

A near-range camera assembly for a vehicle is provided. The near-range camera assembly includes a LIDAR mount couplable to a vehicle. The LIDAR mount includes a first surface and a second surface that opposes the first surface. The near-range camera assembly includes a LIDAR unit removably coupled to the first surface LIDAR mount. The near-range camera assembly further includes a camera and a camera housing for the camera. The camera housing is removably coupled to the second surface LIDAR mount.

Sensor platform for autonomous vehicles

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Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Chad Jonathan Staller