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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2022
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
The University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (US);
Kyle Wray, Amherst, MA (US);
Stefan Witwicki, San Carlos, CA (US);
Shlomo Zilberstein, Amherst, MA (US);
Liam Pedersen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
The University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Autonomous vehicle operational management may include an autonomous vehicle traversing a vehicle transportation network, which may include operating a scenario-specific operational control evaluation module instance, which is an instance of a scenario-specific operational control evaluation module instantiated for an occurrence of a distinct vehicle operational scenario by allocating computing resources to, and populating, the scenario-specific operational control evaluation module instance with operational environment information corresponding to the occurrence of the distinct vehicle operational scenario. Traversing the vehicle transportation network may include determining a current vehicle control action by receiving a candidate vehicle control action from the scenario-specific operational control evaluation module instance and identifying the candidate vehicle control action as the current vehicle control action, and traversing a portion of the vehicle transportation network in accordance with the current vehicle control action, wherein the portion of the vehicle transportation network includes the occurrence of the distinct vehicle operational scenario.