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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2022
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Joseph Funke, Redwood City, CA (US);
Liam Gallagher, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marin Kobilarov, Baltimore, MD (US);
Vincent Andreas Laurense, Foster City, CA (US);
Mark Jonathon McClelland, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sriram Narayanan, San Jose, CA (US);
Kazuhide Okamoto, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jack Riley, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeremy Schwartz, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jacob Patrick Thalman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Olivier Amaury Toupet, Escondido, CA (US);
David Evan Zlotnik, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and techniques for determining a sideslip vector for a vehicle that may have a direction that is different from that of a heading vector for the vehicle. The sideslip vector in a current vehicle state and sideslip vectors in predicted vehicles states may be used to determine paths for a vehicle through an environment and trajectories for controlling the vehicle through the environment. The sideslip vector may be based on a vehicle position that is the center point of the wheelbase of the vehicle and may include lateral velocity, facilitating the control of four-wheel steered vehicle while maintaining the ability to control two-wheel steered vehicles.