The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

Veoneer Us, Inc.

Nicholas Alexander Zervoglos

Scott A Rasmussen

Paul DeBitetto

Hsin-Hsiang Yang

Jon Dee Demerly

Troy B Jones

Scott Lennox

John Sgueglia

An architecture for an autonomous vehicle uses a top-down approach to enable fully automated driving. The architecture is modular and compatible with hardware from different manufacturers. Each modular component can be tailored for individual cars, which have different vehicle control subsystems and different sensor subsystems.

Autonomous vehicle: modular architecture

A non-contact passive ranging system wherein a first imager on a platform is focused on a first object and a second imager on the platform is also focused on the first object. The optical path from the first object to the first imager is configured to be shorter than the optical path from the object to the second imager. Processing circuitry is responsive to an output of the first imager and an output of the second imager as relative motion is provided between the platform and the first object and is configured to calculate the distance from the platform to the object.

Non-contact passive ranging system

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Acton, MA, United States of America

Nicholas Alexander Zervoglos