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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2020
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Haruki Nishimura, Stanford, CA (US);
Boris Ivanovic, Stanford, CA (US);
Adrien David Gaidon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marco Pavone, Stanford, CA (US);
Mac Schwager, Stanford, CA (US);
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving controls in a device according to risk. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to receiving sensor data about a surrounding environment of the device, identifying objects from the sensor data that are present in the surrounding environment. The method includes generating a control sequence for controlling the device according to a risk-sensitivity parameter to navigate toward a destination while considering risk associated with encountering the objects defined by the risk-sensitivity parameter. The method includes controlling the device according to the control sequence.