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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:
Feb. 21, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2019
Applicants:

Baidu Usa Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Beijing, CN;

Inventors:

Fan Zhu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Lin Ma, Beijing, CN;

Xin Xu, Beijing, CN;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/02 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0061 (2013.01); G07C 5/02 (2013.01); B60W 60/0053 (2020.02); B60W 2050/007 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0095 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure describes various embodiments for monitoring safety of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). In one embodiment, a method includes the operations of receiving, by a vehicle controller, one or more error message from a patrol module, the one or more error messages generated by an autonomous driving system of the ADV operating in an autonomous mode, the patrol module monitoring the autonomous driving system; evaluating a status of the autonomous driving system based on the one or more error messages; and keeping the ADV in the autonomous mode or switching it to a manual mode based on the status of the autonomous driving system.


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