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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2018
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
Renault S.a.s., Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Yue Zhao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christopher Ostafew, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
Renault S.A.S., Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Detection of merge scenarios by an autonomous vehicle (AV) is disclosed. A system includes a memory and a processor. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to, in response to detecting a merge scenario, identify an interacting object pair including a merging object and a crossing object, where the AV is the merging object; generate a yield hypothesis and a no-yield hypothesis; compute a yield reference path corresponding to the yield hypothesis and a no-yield reference path corresponding to the no-yield hypothesis; determine a yield likelihood of the yield hypothesis and a no-yield likelihood of the no-yield hypothesis; and operate the AV to merge or to wait until the merge scenario is no longer detected based on the yield likelihood and the no-yield likelihood.