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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2023
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Spyros Maniatopoulos, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shad Laws, Redwood City, CA (US);
Nitin Kapania, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rushil Goradia, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew Robinson, San Francisco, CA (US);
GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Autonomous vehicles may have different specialized primary planners in the vehicle planning stack that each can generate a plan for the vehicle control stack. For instance, one primary planner may be used for the vehicle to drive forward, and another primary planner may be used for the vehicle to drive in reverse. Additionally, a fallback planner may be implemented to allow the autonomous vehicle to drive in a degraded state. A unified interface is provided between the planning stack and the control stack to manage communications between the different planners in the planning stack and the control stack.