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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2017
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
The University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (US);
Renault S.a.s., Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Kyle Hollins Wray, Fremont, CA (US);
Stefan Witwicki, San Carlos, CA (US);
Shlomo Zilberstein, Amherst, MA (US);
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
The University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (US);
Renault S.A.S., Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Autonomous vehicle operation with explicit occlusion reasoning may include traversing, by a vehicle, a vehicle transporation network. Traversing the vehicle transportation network can include receiving, from a sensor of the vehicle, sensor data for a portion of a vehicle operational environment, determining, using the sensor data, a visibility grid comprising coordinates forming an unobserved region within a defined distance from the vehicle, computing a probability of a presence of an external object within the unobserved region by comparing the visibility grid to a map (e.g., a high-definition map), and traversing a portion of the vehicle transportation network using the probability. An apparatus and a vehicle are also described.