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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2017
Uatc, Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Wesly Mason Rice, Glenshaw, PA (US);
UATC, LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for cleaning sensors of a vehicle using a spray pattern are provided. A sensor cleaning system can include a fluid source that supplies a fluid and a nozzle configured to provide a spray of the fluid to a sensor of an autonomous vehicle to remove debris from the sensor. The sensor cleaning system can further include a controller comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media that collectively store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the controller to perform operations. The operations can include obtaining sensor data from the sensor, determining a spray pattern based at least in part on the sensor data; and controlling a flow of the fluid from the fluid source to the nozzle based at least in part on the spray pattern.