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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022

Filed:

May. 11, 2020
Applicant:

Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhenqi Huang, San Carlos, CA (US);

Janek Hudecek, Redwood City, CA (US);

Dhanushka Nirmevan Kularatne, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Mark Jonathon McClelland, San Francisco, CA (US);

Marin Kobilarov, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G01S 19/39 (2010.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G01S 19/42 (2010.01); G01S 19/52 (2010.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/0016 (2020.02); G01C 21/3453 (2013.01); G01C 21/3691 (2013.01); G01S 19/393 (2019.08); G01S 19/42 (2013.01); G01S 19/52 (2013.01); G05D 1/0212 (2013.01);
Abstract

The techniques discussed herein may comprise an autonomous vehicle guidance system that generates a path for controlling an autonomous vehicle based at least in part on a static object map and/or one or more dynamic object maps. The guidance system may identify a path based at least in part on determining set of nodes and a cost map associated with the static and/or dynamic object, among other costs, pruning the set of nodes, and creating further nodes from the remaining nodes until a computational or other limit is reached. The path output by the techniques may be associated with a cheapest node of the sets of nodes that were generated.


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