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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:
Oct. 15, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 23, 2021
Applicant:

Baidu Usa Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shu Jiang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Weiman Lin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Yu Cao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jiangtao Hu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jinghao Miao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

BAIDU USA LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 30/14 (2006.01); B60W 40/02 (2006.01); G06N 3/02 (2006.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/0011 (2020.02); B60W 30/143 (2013.01); B60W 40/02 (2013.01); B60W 60/0015 (2020.02); G06N 3/02 (2013.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); B60W 2555/60 (2020.02); B60W 2556/40 (2020.02);
Abstract

According to some embodiments, described herein is a method and a system for guaranteeing safety at a control level of an ADV when at least a portion of a planned path generated by a planning module of the ADV is uncertain due to traffics and/or road condition changes. The planning module, when generating a path, also generate a confidence level of each segment of the path based on one or more of perception data, map information, or traffic rules. The confidence levels are decreasing further away from the ADV. When the control module of the ADV obtains the path and the associated confidence levels, the control module issue control commands to track only one or two segments whose confidence levels exceeds a threshold hold, and issue default control commands for the rest of the path.


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