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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2017
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Daniel Bogdoll, Aachen, DE;
Shreyasha Paudel, Stanford, CA (US);
Tejaswi Koduri, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Original sensor data is received from one or more sensors of a vehicle. Free space around the vehicle is identified according to the sensor data, such as by identifying regions where data points have a height below a threshold. A location for an object model is selected from the free space. A plane is fitted to sensor data around the location and the object model is oriented according to an orientation of the plane. Sensing of the object model by a sensor of the vehicle is simulated to obtain simulated data, which is then added to the original sensor data. Sensor data corresponding to objects that would have been obscured by the object model is removed from the original sensor data. Augmented sensor data may be used to validate a control algorithm or train a machine learning model.