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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2023
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Mitchell Black, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Bardh Hoxha, Canton, MI (US);
Georgios Fainekos, Novi, MI (US);
Tomoya Yamaguchi, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Danil V. Prokhorov, Canton, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to implementing risk-bounded control barrier functions. In one embodiment, a method includes estimating a state of a vehicle; planning a trajectory based on the state of the vehicle; determining a nominal control input based on the trajectory; applying a risk-bounded control barrier function to determine a control input; and applying the control input to the vehicle.