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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2023
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Timothy Caldwell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rasmus Fonseca, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Dhanushka Nirmevan Kularatne, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Joseph Lorenzetti, Foster City, CA (US);
Latheepan Murugathasan, Dublin, CA (US);
Jack Riley, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mazen Alim Siddiqui, San Francisco, CA (US);
Olivier Amaury Toupet, Escondido, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for enabling a vehicle to navigate around a blocking object, such as double-parked vehicle ('DPV'), are discussed herein. In some examples, a vehicle may receive sensor data representative of an environment. The vehicle may analyze such sensor data to determine that a DPV is located proximate the vehicle. When determining whether to follow the trajectory, the vehicle may determine one or more cost values corresponding to the trajectory. Further, the vehicle may receive weighted heatmap(s) that cover the region proximate the DPV. The vehicle may modify some or all cost values of the trajectory based on the weighted values of the heatmap(s). In some examples, the vehicle may follow the trajectory based at least in part on the cost values.