Zoox, Inc.

Satya Rama Aditya Pinapala

Udayan Pushparaj Karmarkar

Aaron Rosekind

Yufei Zhu

Collin Macgregor

Thomas Mueller-Werth

Luis Riera

Joshua Caleb Wade

Saul Martin Silverberg

Techniques for intelligent vehicle pull over in response to detecting abnormal conditions. The techniques may include determining a presence of a condition necessitating that a vehicle cease from operating on a road surface and determining a constraint associated with the vehicle ceasing from operating on the road surface. In some examples, the constraint may be a time constraint, a geographical constraint, and/or the like. The techniques may also include sending, to a planner component of the vehicle, an indication that the vehicle is to cease from operating on the road surface in accordance with the constraint. Additionally, based at least in part on a determination that the planner component acknowledged the indication in accordance with the constraint, the techniques may include refraining from causing the vehicle to stop on the road surface such that the vehicle impedes a flow of traffic.

Intelligent vehicle pull over

Techniques for controlling a vehicle on a low friction surface are discussed herein. An acceleration of a motor of a drive unit of a vehicle may be monitored to identify an anomalous acceleration, such as an acceleration equal to or above a threshold acceleration. In response to identifying the anomalous acceleration, a torque limit for driving the drive unit may be limited, e.g., according to a modified torque limit. In examples the modified torque limit may be a percentage of a nominal maximum torque for driving the drive unit.

Torque limits for low friction driving

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Satya Rama Aditya Pinapala