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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2022
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
George Peter Kenneth Carr, Allison Park, PA (US);
Shawn Cook, Dearborn, MI (US);
Brett Browning, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Andrew Hartnett, West Hartford, CT (US);
Constantin A. Savtchenko, Sewickley, PA (US);
Neal Seegmiller, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Christopher Cunningham, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Thomas Mark Petroff, Gibsonia, PA (US);
Michael Pacilio, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for validating protolanes. For example, the method includes determining a protolane level flowchart from one or more flowcharts corresponding to one or more gates of a protolane selected from a set of protolanes of a geonet, wherein the one or more flowcharts correspond to conditions that can be encountered by an actor approaching the corresponding one or more gates, and wherein the geonet comprises a plurality of lane segments associated with the set of protolanes. A graph through the protolane level flowchart is generated that corresponds to actions of an actor. Reasoning of the actor is validated by testing the actions of the actor against the graph through the protolane level flowchart.