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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2019
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Timothy Caldwell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jefferson Bradfield Packer, San Francisco, CA (US);
William Anthony Silva, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rick Zhang, San Mateo, CA (US);
Gowtham Garimella, Burlingame, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for generating simulations for evaluating a performance of a controller of an autonomous vehicle are described. A computing system may evaluate the performance of the controller to navigate the simulation and respond to actions of one or more objects (e.g., other vehicles, bicyclists, pedestrians, etc.) in a simulation. Actions of the objects in the simulation may be controlled by the computing system (e.g., by an artificial intelligence) and/or one or more users inputting object controls, such as via a user interface. The computing system may calculate performance metrics associated with the actions performed by the vehicle in the simulation as directed by the autonomous controller. The computing system may utilize the performance metrics to verify parameters of the autonomous controller (e.g., validate the autonomous controller) and/or to train the autonomous controller utilizing machine learning techniques to bias toward preferred actions.