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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
May. 23, 2022
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Michael Hafner, San Carlos, CA (US);
Mohit Srinivasan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abhishek Sharma, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Mrdjan J. Jankovic, Birmingham, MI (US);
Erol Dogan Sumer, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Alexander Jaeckel, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Aakar Mehra, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A system for detecting a road surface includes a computer programmed to determine a virtual boundary for a vehicle body based on a shape of the vehicle body, upon identifying an object, to identify a plurality of points on the object based on received sensor data, to determine a barrier function based on each of the identified plurality of points, wherein the barrier function includes a barrier distance from a reference point of the virtual boundary of the vehicle to a respective one of the points on the object, based on (i) the determined barrier functions, (ii) the determined virtual boundary of the vehicle, and (iii) an input to at least one of propulsion, steering, or braking, to determine at least one of a braking override or a steering override, and based on the determination, to adjust at least one of a vehicle steering or a vehicle speed.