COLLISION PREDICTION AND AVOIDANCE FOR VEHICLES

Patent №

US 11,001,256

Granted

2021-05-11

Filed 2018

Owner

ZOOX, INC.

Lab

AI components

3

vision · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16136038

A vehicle computing system may implement techniques to control a vehicle to avoid collisions between the vehicle and agents (e.g., dynamic objects) in an environment. The techniques may include generating a representation of a path of the vehicle through an environment as a polygon. The vehicle computing system may compare the two-dimensional path with a trajectory of an agent determined using sensor data to determine a collision zone between the vehicle and the agent. The vehicle computing system may determine a risk of collision based on predicted velocities and probable accelerations of the vehicle and the agent approaching and traveling through the collision zone. Based at least in part on the risk of collision, the vehicle computing system may cause the vehicle to perform an action.

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AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.99
Vision0.73
Machine learning0.22
Speech0.00
AI hardware0.00
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

ZOOX, INC.

assignment · 469160707

Assignors

PACKER, JEFFERSON BRADFIELD, SILVA, WILLIAM ANTHONY, HUANG, ZHENQI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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