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Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2019
Applicant:

Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg, SE;

Inventors:

Sihao Ding, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sohini Roy Chowdhury, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Minming Zhao, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ying Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg, SE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/58 (2006.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G01S 7/48 (2006.01); G06N 3/04 (2006.01); G05B 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/58 (2013.01); G01S 7/4808 (2013.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G05B 13/027 (2013.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A LIDAR-based method of determining an absolute speed of an object at a relatively longer distance from an ego vehicle, including: estimating a self speed of the ego vehicle using a first frame t-and a second frame t obtained from a LIDAR sensor by estimating an intervening rotation θ about a z axis and translation in orthogonal x and y directions using a deep learning algorithm over a relatively closer distance range; dividing each of the first frame t-and the second frame t into multiple adjacent input ranges and estimating a relative speed of the object at the relatively longer distance by subsequently processing each frame using a network, with each input range processed using a corresponding convolutional neural network; and combining the estimation of the estimating the self speed with the estimation of the estimating the relative speed to obtain an estimation of the absolute speed.


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