Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Peng-Yu Chen

Ankit Girish Vora

Siddharth Agarwal

Jakob Nikolaus Hoellerbauer

A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to generate, from LIDAR data, a first intensity map of an area around a vehicle, and to estimate a vehicle location based on comparing the first intensity map to a grayscale top view image.

Localization technique

A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to select a technique, from a plurality of techniques, to identify a vehicle location by sensor and map data based on features detected in sensor data of an area in which the vehicle is located, to determine a location of the vehicle based on the selected technique; and to navigate the vehicle based at least in part on the identified location.

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Peng-Yu Chen