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Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 04, 2023
Applicant:

GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shad Laws, Redwood City, CA (US);

Spyros Maniatopoulos, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/02 (2012.01); B60W 50/023 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/023 (2013.01); B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); B60W 50/0225 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02);
Abstract

Systems and methods for failover handling at a vehicle in response to a degraded state of operation are provided. For example, a method includes receiving, from a fallback vehicle path planner of a vehicle, data indicative of a fallback path; storing, at a memory of the vehicle, the data indicative of the fallback path; receiving, from a primary vehicle path planner of the vehicle, data indicative of a primary path; receiving an event trigger indicative of a degraded operating condition associated with the primary vehicle path planner; selecting, in response to the event trigger, the fallback path over the primary path; and sending, to a control system of the vehicle in response to the selecting, the stored data indicative of the fallback path.


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