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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2023
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Zhisheng Hu, Riverside, CA (US);
Hamed Soroush, San Jose, CA (US);
Andraz Kavalar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gerrit Bagschik, Goslar, DE;
Sean Konz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Angel De Jesus Avila, San Diego, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes techniques for testing robustness of a vehicle controller to adversarial command provided by a teleoperation component. In some cases, a driving scenario is determined (e.g., based on recorded driving event(s) and/or based on modifications to recorded driving event(s)). After determining a driving scenario, an adversarial teleoperation command may be determined for the scenario that is predicted to increase (e.g., maximize) an expected damage measure. After determining the adversarial command, the command may be provided to a vehicle controller that controls operation(s) associated with a simulated vehicle in a simulation environment. The simulated behavior of the vehicle controller and/or the simulated vehicle may represent whether the vehicle controller is associated with a deficiency.