Sensor placement to reduce blind spots

    公开(公告)号:US11531114B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-20

    申请号:US16903361

    申请日:2020-06-16

    发明人: Velin Dimitrov

    IPC分类号: G01S17/931 G05D1/02 G01S17/89

    摘要: Systems and methods for imaging may include: receiving a first point cloud from a first LiDAR sensor mounted at a first location behind a vehicle grille, the first point cloud representing the scene in front of the vehicle, wherein as a result of the grille the scene represented by the first point cloud data is partially occluded with a first pattern of occlusion; receiving a second point cloud from a second LiDAR sensor mounted at a second location behind the vehicle grille; combining the first and second point clouds to generate a composite point cloud data set, wherein the first LiDAR sensor is located relative to the second LiDAR sensor such that when a point cloud data for the first optical sensor and the second optical sensor are combined, the first pattern of occlusion is at least partially compensated; and processing the combined point cloud data set.

    PURPOSEFUL BRAKE-INDUCED WHEEL LOCKUP FOR VEHICLE STABILITY CONTROL

    公开(公告)号:US20220379858A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-01

    申请号:US17335497

    申请日:2021-06-01

    IPC分类号: B60T8/1755 B60T8/171 B60T8/24

    摘要: Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle may include receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors, the sensor data including vehicle parameter information for the vehicle; using the sensor data to determine a vehicle state for a vehicle negotiating a corner, wherein the vehicle state comprises information regarding a magnitude of an effective understeer gradient for the vehicle; computing a yaw moment required to correct the effective understeer gradient based on the magnitude of the effective understeer gradient; and applying a brake torque to a single wheel of the vehicle, wherein an amount of brake torque applied is sufficient to lock up the single wheel to create a yaw moment on the vehicle to achieve the computed yaw moment required to correct the effective understeer gradient.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GUIDING A VEHICLE OCCUPANT'S ATTENTION

    公开(公告)号:US20220379690A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-01

    申请号:US17334898

    申请日:2021-05-31

    IPC分类号: B60J3/04 G06K9/00 G06K9/20

    摘要: Systems and methods for guiding a vehicle occupant's attention are disclosed herein. One embodiment selects automatically a particular region of an environment external to a vehicle and guides an occupant of the vehicle to look at the particular region by automatically adjusting the transparency of one or more windows of the vehicle such that a first portion of the one or more windows through which the occupant is able to see the particular region is more transparent than a second portion of the one or more windows that is adjacent to the first portion.

    Merge situation exposure algorithms to maximize exposure time

    公开(公告)号:US11511751B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-29

    申请号:US16888330

    申请日:2020-05-29

    发明人: Daniele Molinari

    IPC分类号: B60W30/18 H04W4/40 B60W60/00

    摘要: A method of improving a merging efficiency of an ego vehicle is described. The method includes determining one or more merge gaps between vehicles in a target lane of a multilane highway. The method also includes computing an exposure time in which the ego vehicle is specified to merge into the one or more merge gaps. The method further includes selecting a merge gap between a first vehicle and a second vehicle in the target lane of the multilane highway having a maximum exposure time.

    Controlling a vehicle that is skidding

    公开(公告)号:US11498564B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-15

    申请号:US16997391

    申请日:2020-08-19

    摘要: Coordinates of a point, representing a current pair of states of a vehicle, can be determined to be outside of a first curve. An interior of the first curve, representing a first region of operation of the vehicle, can be characterized by values of forces produced by tires being less than a saturation force. A distance between the point and a second curve can be determined. An interior of the second curve, representing a second region of operation of the vehicle, can be characterized by an ability of an operation of a control system to cause the vehicle to change from being operated in the current pair of states to being operated in the first region of operation. A manner in which the vehicle changes from being operated in the current pair of states to being operated in a different pair of states can be controlled based on the distance.

    Systems and methods for self-supervised depth estimation

    公开(公告)号:US11494927B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-08

    申请号:US17021951

    申请日:2020-09-15

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00 G06T7/55 G06T3/00

    摘要: Systems and methods for self-supervised depth estimation using image frames captured from a vehicle-mounted camera, may include: receiving a first image captured by the camera while the camera is mounted at a first location on the vehicle, the source image comprising pixels representing a scene of the environment of the vehicle; receiving a reference image captured by the camera while the camera is mounted at a second location on the vehicle, the reference image comprising pixels representing a scene of the environment; predicting a depth map for the first image comprising predicted depth values for pixels of the first image; warping the first image to a perspective of the camera at the second location on the vehicle to arrive at a warped first image; projecting the warped first image onto the source image; determining a loss based on the projection; and updating predicted depth values for the first image.

    Methods and systems for machine-learning-assisted discovery of dark electrocatalysts and photo-electrocatalysts

    公开(公告)号:US11493475B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-08

    申请号:US16704452

    申请日:2019-12-05

    摘要: Methods and systems described herein concern machine-learning-assisted materials discovery. One embodiment selects a candidate sample set including a plurality of compositions and performs the following operations iteratively: (1) selects an acquisition sample set, (2) performs a dark electrocatalyst experiment or a photo-electrocatalyst experiment on the compositions in the acquisition sample set to determine one or more properties, (3) trains a machine learning model using the one or more properties, and (4) predicts, based at least in part on one or more outputs of the machine learning model, the one or more properties for one or more compositions in a test sample set including compositions on which an experiment has not yet been performed. When one or more predetermined termination criteria have been satisfied, the embodiment also identifies one or more compositions in the candidate sample set for which the one or more properties satisfy predetermined performance criteria.