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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:
Apr. 18, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 28, 2019
Applicant:

Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);

Inventors:

John J. O'Brien, Farmington, AR (US);

Donald R. High, Noel, MO (US);

Brian McHale, Oldham, GB;

David Winkle, Bentonville, AR (US);

Assignee:

Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); B64C 23/00 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); B64C 23/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/0202 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G08G 5/0008 (2013.01); G08G 5/0013 (2013.01); G08G 5/0021 (2013.01); G08G 5/0052 (2013.01); G08G 5/0069 (2013.01); G08G 5/0078 (2013.01); G08G 5/0091 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
Abstract

An autonomous vehicle system includes a body and a plurality of sensors coupled to the body and configured to generate a plurality of sensor measurements corresponding to the plurality of sensors. The system also includes a control unit configured to: receive inputs from a plurality of sources wherein the plurality sources comprise the plurality of sensors, the inputs comprise the plurality of sensor measurements; determine a confidence level of each input based on other inputs; prioritize, based on the confidence level associated with each input, the inputs; generate, based on the prioritization of the inputs and the confidence level, a combined input with a combined confidence level; and determine, based on the combined input and the combined confidence level, a mission task to be performed.


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