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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2022
Luminar Technologies, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Dominik Nuss, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Masood Taheri, San Jose, CA (US);
Amey Sutavani, Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott Walter, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Scott Ryvola, San Jose, CA (US);
Mohamed Ahmad, Vienna, VA (US);
Flavian Pegado, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shubham C. Khilari, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vahid R. Ramezani, Los Altos, CA (US);
Luminar Technologies, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
A system and method are described for assessing accuracy of a virtual horizon generated by a vehicle-based lidar system as the vehicle traverses a route of travel. Travel route topology data is obtained by a vehicle vehicle-mounted global positioning system-assisted inertial measurement unit (GPS/IMU) data. A reference virtual horizon at points along the route of travel is obtained from the GPS/IMU data and is compared with the virtual horizon generated by the lidar system for the same points to assess the accuracy of the virtual horizon generated by the lidar system.