Uatc, LLC

Uber Technologies, Inc.

Aurora Operations, Inc.

Nike Innovate C.v.

Nikolaus Wittenstein

Kwamina Crankson

David Patrick Rice

Michael C Makay

J Gerson Goldberg

Wesly Mason Rice

Marco Micheletti

James Bielman

Kate Cummings

Peter Brueckner

Sean Joseph Kennelly

Zhizhuo Jin

Demi Raven

Jake Sprouse

Jamian R Cobbett

Robert A Riccomini

Aaron B Weast

Lola Oyibo

Bert Buxton

Kris Henderson

Kris Zipperer

The present disclosure provides a sensor cleaning system that cleans one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle. Each sensor can have one or more corresponding sensor cleaning units that are configured to clean such sensor using a fluid (e.g., a gas or a liquid). Thus, the sensor cleaning system can include both a gas cleaning system and a liquid cleaning system. According to one aspect, the sensor cleaning system can provide individualized cleaning of the autonomous vehicle sensors. According to another aspect, a liquid cleaning system can be pressurized or otherwise powered by the gas cleaning system or other gas system.

Autonomous vehicle sensor cleaning system

Systems and methods for cleaning one or more sensors on an autonomous vehicle according to a sensor cleaning system are provided. A method can include obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, data indicative of a sensor condition for the autonomous vehicle. The method can further include determining, by the computing system, a sensor cleaning sequence for one or more sensor cleaning units of the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the data indicative of the sensor condition. The one or more sensor cleaning units can be configured to respectively clean one or more sensors of the autonomous vehicle. The method can further include controlling, by the computing system, the one or more sensor cleaning units to sequentially clean the one or more sensors based at least in part on the sensor cleaning sequence.

Sequential sensor cleaning system for autonomous vehicle

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Glenshaw, PA, United States of America

Nikolaus Wittenstein