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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:
Jan. 16, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2017
Applicants:

Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);

The University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (US);

Inventors:

Kyle Hollins Wray, Amhurst, MA (US);

Stefan Witwicki, San Carlos, CA (US);

Shlomo Zilberstein, Amherst, MA (US);

Assignees:

Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);

The University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3407 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02);
Abstract

Traversing, by an autonomous vehicle, a vehicle transportation network, may include identifying a distinct vehicle operational scenario, wherein traversing the vehicle transportation network includes traversing a portion of the vehicle transportation network that includes the distinct vehicle operational scenario, communicating shared scenario-specific operational control management data associated with the distinct vehicle operational scenario with an external shared scenario-specific operational control management system, operating a scenario-specific operational control evaluation module instance including an instance of a scenario-specific operational control evaluation model of the distinct vehicle operational scenario, and wherein operating the scenario-specific operational control evaluation module instance includes identifying a policy for the scenario-specific operational control evaluation model, receiving a candidate vehicle control action from the policy for the scenario-specific operational control evaluation model, and traversing a portion of the vehicle transportation network based on the candidate vehicle control action.


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