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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2023
Kodiak Robotics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Philip C. Du Toit, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Akshay Khatri, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andreas Wendel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zachais Vawter, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Collin C. Otis, Driggs, ID (US);
Ryan T. Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kodiak Robotics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides methods and systems for dynamically creating a trajectory for navigating a vehicle. The method may include receiving sensor data from at least one sensor of the autonomous vehicle, the sensor data representative of a driving surface in a field of view of the autonomous vehicle; segmenting a portion of the driving surface in the field of view of the autonomous vehicle by determining nominal path based at least in part on the image data; assigning a plurality of nodes to at least a portion of the nominal path; associating the plurality of the nodes assigned to the nominal path with a line to generate at least one segmentation polyline; determining updated nominal path by fitting the each of the plurality of segmentation lines to the nominal path; generating a trajectory based on the updated nominal path; and navigating the autonomous vehicle according to the trajectory.