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Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2023
Applicant:

Kodiak Robotics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Collin Otis, Driggs, ID (US);

Philip C. Du Toit, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Assignee:

Kodiak Robotics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/095 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2556/40 (2020.02);
Abstract

Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems to adjust a driving path in a planner-map, including: identifying a driving surface; determining a path on the driving surface; identifying one or more objects relative to the driving surface using one or more sensors; detecting one or more occlusion areas from sensor data from the one or more sensors; tracking one or more tracks of one or more objects within the one or more occlusion areas; adding uncertainty to the one or more tracks within the one or more occlusion areas; and adjusting the path on the driving surface based on the uncertainty of the one or more tracks within the one or more occlusion areas.


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