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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2022
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Sreevatsan Bhaskaran, Redwood City, CA (US);
Shreyas Sudhir Mundhra, San Jose, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for detecting degradation of a component are discussed herein. For example, a computing device can implement a sensor testing component to determine degradation caused by rain, mud, dirt, dust, snow, ice, animal droppings, or other debris on and/or near an outer surface of the lidar sensor. The sensor testing component can apply one or more heuristics and/or machine learned models to the lidar data and/or compare information associated with the lidar data (e.g., intensity, pulse information, etc.) to a baseline to determine an action for a vehicle and/or a size, a type, or a location of an obstruction blocking a lidar beam.