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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2021
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Diego Plascencia-Vega, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dogan Gidon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nestor Grace, San Francisco, CA (US);
GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed technology provides solutions for improving the operational efficiency and safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In some implementations, the disclosed technology encompasses methods for performing vehicle clustering or platooning, for example, that can include steps for computing navigation routes for each of a plurality of autonomous vehicles (AVs), identifying a route overlap for a first AV and a second AV selected from among the plurality of AVs, and transmitting a clustering instruction to the first AV and the second AV based on the route overlap, wherein the clustering instruction is configured to cause the first AV and the second AV to initiate a clustering configuration. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.