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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2017
Uatc, Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kenneth James Jensen, Alameda, CA (US);
UATC, LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to control a vehicle. In one aspect, a method includes capturing point-cloud data representative of a surrounding of an autonomous vehicle with one or more LIDAR sensors, identifying a point in the point cloud data as a non-matching point in response to the point having no corresponding point in a map used to determine a position of the autonomous vehicle, determining whether the non-matching point is to be used in a determination of an overlap score based on one or more comparisons of the point cloud data and the map, determining the overlap score in response to the determining whether the non-matching point is to be used in the determination of the overlap score, determining a position of the autonomous vehicle based on the overlap score and the map, and controlling the autonomous vehicle based on the position.