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Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024

Filed:

May. 24, 2021
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Birgit Henke, Seattle, WA (US);

David Nister, Bellevue, WA (US);

Julia Ng, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/0011 (2020.02); B60W 60/0015 (2020.02); B60W 60/0027 (2020.02); B60W 2520/06 (2013.01); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2554/80 (2020.02);
Abstract

A trajectory for an autonomous machine may be evaluated for safety based at least on determining whether the autonomous machine would be capable of occupying points of the trajectory in space-time while still being able to avoid a potential future collision with one or more objects in the environment through use of one or more safety procedures. To do so, a point of the trajectory may be evaluated for conflict based at least on a comparison between points in space-time that correspond to the autonomous machine executing the safety procedure(s) from the point and arrival times of the one or more objects to corresponding position(s) in the environment. A trajectory may be sampled and evaluated for conflicts at various points throughout the trajectory. Based on results of one or more evaluations, the trajectory may be scored, eliminated from consideration, or otherwise considered for control of the autonomous machine.


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