ESTIMATING AUTO EXPOSURE VALUES OF CAMERA BY PRIORITIZING OBJECT OF INTEREST BASED ON CONTEXTUAL INPUTS FROM 3D MAPS

    公开(公告)号:US20220188553A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-16

    申请号:US17118768

    申请日:2020-12-11

    Applicant: Argo AI, LLC

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for operating a vehicle, is provided. The method includes, by a vehicle control system of the vehicle, identifying map data for a present location of the vehicle using a location of the vehicle and pose and trajectory data for the vehicle, identifying a field of view of a camera of the vehicle, and analyzing the map data to identify an object that is expected to be in the field of view of the camera. The method further includes, based on (a) a class of the object, (b) characteristics of a region of interest in the field of view of the vehicle, or (c) both, selecting an automatic exposure (AE) setting for the camera. The method additionally includes causing the camera to use the AE setting when capturing images of the object, and using the camera, capturing the images of the object.

    Method and system for designing a robotic system architecture with optimized system latency

    公开(公告)号:US11354473B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US17160758

    申请日:2021-01-28

    Applicant: Argo AI, LLC

    Inventor: Jason Ziglar

    Abstract: Systems and methods for designing a robotic system architecture are disclosed. The methods include defining a software graph including a first plurality of nodes, and a first plurality of edges representative of data flow between the first plurality of tasks, and defining a hardware graph including a second plurality of nodes, and a second plurality of edges. The methods may include mapping the software graph to the hardware graph, modeling a latency associated with a computational path included in the software graph for the mapping between the software graph and the hardware graph, allocating a plurality of computational tasks in the computational path to a plurality of the hardware components to yield a robotic system architecture using the latency, and using the robotic system architecture to configure the robotic device to be capable of performing functions corresponding to the software graph.

    ON-BOARD FEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

    公开(公告)号:US20220164245A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-26

    申请号:US17102303

    申请日:2020-11-23

    Applicant: Argo AI, LLC

    Abstract: A system includes an on-board electronic device of an autonomous vehicle, and a computer-readable medium having one or more programming instructions. The system receives one or more forecast messages pertaining to a track, where each of the forecast messages includes a unique identifier associated with the track, and receives one or more inference messages pertaining to the track, where each of the inference messages includes the unique identifier. The system aggregates the one or more forecast messages and the one or more inference messages to generate a message set, and applies a set of processing operations to the message set to generate a feedback message. The system identifies one or more events from the feedback message, automatically generates an annotation for one or more of the events that is identified, and embeds the generated annotations in an event log for the autonomous vehicle.

    Testing and validation of a camera under electromagnetic interference

    公开(公告)号:US11341682B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-24

    申请号:US16993044

    申请日:2020-08-13

    Applicant: Argo AI, LLC

    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are provided for testing and validation of a camera. A device may determine a content object placed in a line of sight of a camera device, wherein the content object provides informational and visual content. The device may capture one or more images of the content object. The device may cause an electromagnetic event using an electromagnetic interference device, causing an electromagnetic event to affect an image quality of at least one of the one or more images captured by the camera device. The device may assign a structural similarity index (SSIM) score to the at least one image of the one or more images, wherein the SSIM score indicates a camera validation status of the camera device. The device may assign an SSIM score between on one image taken without the presence of interference and one image taken in the presences of the interference.

    METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENABLING PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE MESSAGE TRANSMISSION IN A DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20220159070A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-19

    申请号:US17097699

    申请日:2020-11-13

    Applicant: Argo AI, LLC

    Inventor: Randall Nortman

    Abstract: Messaging systems and methods for routing messages between network nodes of a distributed computing system are disclosed. The messaging system includes a plurality of network nodes. Each network node includes a shared memory comprising a shared memory region configured to store messages, a publisher, and a first bridge module. The first bridge module determines if a subscriber for a shared memory region of that network node exists on a remote network node, where the remote network node does not include the publisher. Upon determining that the subscriber exists on the remote network node, the first bridging module reads a plurality of messages from the shared memory region, and transmits the plurality of messages to a second bridge module of the remote network node. The second bridge module is configured to write the plurality of messages to a remote memory region on the remote network node.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RADAR FALSE TRACK MITIGATION WITH CAMERA

    公开(公告)号:US20220137207A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-05

    申请号:US17088763

    申请日:2020-11-04

    Applicant: Argo AI, LLC

    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating radar systems. The methods comprise, by a processor: receiving point cloud information generated by at least one radar device; generating a radar track initializer using the point cloud information; determining whether the radar track initializer includes false information; generating a radar track for a detected object when a determination is made that the radar track initializer does not include false information; and/or using the radar track to control operations of a vehicle.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANGE-RATE DEALIASING USING POSITION CONSISTENCY

    公开(公告)号:US20220137202A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-05

    申请号:US17086559

    申请日:2020-11-02

    Applicant: Argo AI, LLC

    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating radar systems. The methods comprise, by a processor: receiving point cloud information generated by at least one radar device and a spatial description for an object; generating a plurality of point cloud segments by grouping data points of the point cloud information based on the spatial description; arranging the point cloud segments in a temporal order to define a radar tentative track; performing dealiasing operations using the radar tentative track to generate tracker initialization information; and using the tracker initialization information to generate a track for the object.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIVERTING RAM AIR TO VEHICLE SENSORS

    公开(公告)号:US20220135005A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-05

    申请号:US17084493

    申请日:2020-10-29

    Applicant: Argo AI, LLC

    Inventor: Dustin R. Yautz

    Abstract: A sensor cooling and cleaning system for a vehicle includes an inlet that is coupled to an air intake of a vehicle body and positioned to receive ram air when the vehicle is in forward motion. The system includes a passive air conditioning device that is configured to remove moisture from the ram air received through the inlet to produce conditioned air. The system also includes an outlet that is positioned adjacent to and upstream of sensor to direct the conditioned air from the passive air conditioning device toward a stagnation point that is located upstream of the sensor, during the forward motion of the vehicle.

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