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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2023
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Akash Arora, San Mateo, CA (US);
Andrew Baker, North Hollywood, CA (US);
Timothy Caldwell, Boulder, CO (US);
Eunsuk Chong, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Rasmus Fonseca, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Ravi Gogna, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Loris Irion, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Dhanushka Nirmevan Kularatne, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Yangwei Liu, Newark, CA (US);
Joseph Lorenzetti, Foster City, CA (US);
Mark Jonathon Mcclelland, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jack Riley, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rick Zhang, Belmont, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for generating a driving surface cost landscape for determining costs for vehicle positions in an environment are described herein. A planning component within a vehicle may determine a non-preferred surface associated with a type of non-preferred area of an environment along a route of a vehicle, determine a preferred surface associated with a preferred area of the environment, determine an adjusted non-preferred surface by removing an overlapping area of the non-preferred surface that overlaps the preferred surface and determine a cost associated with a vehicle position based at least on the preferred surface and the adjusted non-preferred surface. The planning component may then determine a control trajectory for the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the cost associated with the vehicle position.