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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2020
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nathaniel Barrett Herse, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joel F. Jensen, Redwood City, CA (US);
GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Technologies for steering sensors in a sensor carrier structure on an autonomous vehicle (AV) are described herein. In some examples, a sensor positioning platform on an AV can include an actuator system including a motor; a belt mechanically engaged to a set of pulleys such that operation of the motor results in the belt driving a first rotational movement of at least one of the pulleys, which, in turn, causes a second rotational movement of a sensor carrier structure; a motor controller that receives instructions for controlling the motor to reposition the sensor carrier structure and sending control signals to the motor to perform the repositioning of the sensor carrier structure; and a bundle of cables coiled within a central bore of the actuator system.