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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:
Nov. 07, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 13, 2020
Applicant:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Daniela Rus, Weston, MA (US);

Sertac Karaman, Cambridge, MA (US);

Wilko Schwarting, Cambridge, MA (US);

Anshula Gandhi, Cambridge, MA (US);

Cristian-Ioan Vasile, Cambridge, MA (US);

Alyssa Pierson, Somerville, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); B60W 60/0015 (2020.02); G01C 21/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach to autonomous navigation of a vehicle augments a static map of an environment with a clutter map characterizing a risk of encountering an object that is not represented in the static map of the environment. For example, the clutter map may be based on locations and velocities of those objects, and route planning may avoid planning a path through locations that have a high risk of occupancy, and therefore potential delay or collision.


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