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Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026

Filed:

Sep. 18, 2024
Applicant:

Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);

Inventor:

Andreas Pasternak, Boulder, CO (US);

Assignee:

Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G05D 1/43 (2024.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G05D 1/43 (2024.01);
Abstract

Techniques for generating a vehicle trajectory usable for for controlling an autonomous vehicle in an environment are described herein. For example, the techniques may include a computing device implementing a machine learned model and a statistical model in parallel in a tree search of a tree structure to predict a trajectory of the autonomous vehicle in the environment. The tree structure can process a latent representation and a non-latent representation in parallel to determine potential actions and/or trajectories for the autonomous vehicle. The tree structure of the computing device can output a trajectory for controlling the autonomous vehicle in the environment. Depending on examples, the environment is a real-world environment or a simulated environment.


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