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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2024
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Jean Marcel Dos Reis Costa, San Jose, CA (US);
Guy Rosman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Deepak Edakkattil Gopinath, Washington, DC (US);
Emily Sumner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas Balch, Somerville, MA (US);
Jonathan Decastro, Arlington, MA (US);
Andrew Michael Silva, Cambridge, MA (US);
Laporsha Trinati Dees, Boston, MA (US);
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to integrating human decision-making into a model-based system. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring sensor data, including driver data about a driver of a vehicle and driving data about the vehicle and a surrounding environment of the vehicle. The method includes encoding, using a world encoder, the sensor data into a latent representation. The method includes determining human decision-making characteristics according to the latent representation. The method includes generating a control signal for providing shared control of the vehicle according to the human decision-making characteristics and the latent representation.