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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2017
Zoox, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Amanda Lee Kelly Lockwood, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ravi Gogna, San Jose, CA (US);
Gary Linscott, Cupertino, CA (US);
Timothy Caldwell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marin Kobilarov, Moutain View, CA (US);
Paul Orecchio, Cupertino, CA (US);
Dan Xie, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ashutosh Gajanan Rege, San Jose, CA (US);
Jesse Sol Levinson, Redwood City, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for operating a driverless vehicle may include receiving, at the driverless vehicle, sensor signals related to operation of the driverless vehicle, and road network data from a road network data store. The method may also include determining a driving corridor within which the driverless vehicle travels according to a trajectory, and causing the driverless vehicle to traverse a road network autonomously according to a path from a first geographic location to a second geographic location. The method may also include determining that an event associated with the path has occurred, and sending communication signals to a teleoperations system including a request for guidance and one or more of sensor data and the road network data. The method may include receiving, at the driverless vehicle, teleoperations signals from the teleoperations system, such that the vehicle controller determines a revised trajectory based at least in part on the teleoperations signals.