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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2017
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Wesly Mason Rice, Glenshaw, PA (US);
Nikolaus Wittenstein, Glenshaw, PA (US);
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
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.