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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2022
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Sergei S. Avedisov, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Seyhan Ucar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Onur Altintas, Mountain View, CA (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to avoiding deadlocks between vehicles through adjusted maneuvering. In one embodiment, a method includes predicting vehicle trajectories using a model generated from sensor data and information communicated to a subject vehicle. The method also includes estimating, by the subject vehicle, deadlock parameters using the vehicle trajectories. The method also includes, in response to the deadlock parameters satisfying a threshold, avoiding a deadlock by communicating a maneuver message (MM) that suggests a maneuver for nearby vehicles according to vehicle parameters or by executing a motion adjustment initiated by the subject vehicle that reduce conditions for traffic conflicts according to the deadlock parameters.