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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2024
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Joshua Caleb Wade, Redwood City, CA (US);
Joshua Dean Egbert, Redwood City, CA (US);
Vincent Andreas Laurense, Foster City, CA (US);
George Chunfeng Chen, El Monte, CA (US);
Amirhossein Tamjidi, Foster City, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and techniques for determining deceleration controls to use in a trajectory for use in stopping a vehicle are described. A vehicle control system may determine if a stopping point is represented in a spatially-generated trajectory (e.g., controls to be commanded at particular locations) and, if so, whether the points in the trajectory approaching the stopping point meet near-stop conditions. If so, the system operated the vehicle in stop vehicle control mode, generating temporally-based controls to slow the vehicle more comfortably. Otherwise, the system operates the vehicle as normal, using spatially-based controls for controlling the vehicle.