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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2022
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Guan Sun, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yue Shen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Martin Nikoltchev, Oakland, CA (US);
Pengchong Jin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yi Shen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jiyang Gao, Foster City, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The described aspects and implementations enable online lane estimation and tracking in autonomous vehicle and driver assistance applications. In one implementation, disclosed is a method and a system to perform the method that includes receiving perception data indicative of driving lanes and reference objects in a driving environment of a vehicle, identifying target destinations corresponding to the driving lanes, determining candidate driving paths connecting a starting location with one of the target destinations, selecting a target driving path from the candidate driving paths based on geometric properties of each candidate driving path and a spatial relationship of a respective candidate driving path to the reference objects, and causing a motion of the vehicle to be modified based on the target driving path.