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Systems and Methods for Actor Motion Forecasting within a Surrounding Environment of an Autonomous Vehicle

Systems and methods are provided for forecasting the motion of actors within a surrounding environment of an autonomous platform. For example, a computing system of an autonomous platform can use mach…

DRIVE·6d ago·1 min read

B60W60/00276 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Systems and Methods For Emergency Vehicle Detection

Systems and methods for emergency vehicle detection are provided. An example method includes obtaining sensor data including image frames indicative of an actor in an environment of an autonomous vehi…

DRIVE·6d ago·1 min read

B60W60/0015 Aurora Operations, Inc.

High Pressure Sensor Cleaning Nozzles

A sensor cleaning system for an autonomous vehicle includes at least one sensor configured to generate a sensor signal. The at least one sensor includes at least one sensor lens. At least one reservoi…

DRIVE·Jun 11·2 min read

B60S1/56 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Object Detection for Autonomous Vehicles

An example method includes generating, a first bounding shape for an object within an environment of an autonomous vehicle, the first bounding shape indicating a boundary corresponding to a shape of t…

DRIVE·May 7·1 min read

G05D1/43 Aurora Operations, Inc.

LIDAR Sensor System Including Particular Optic Design

A Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system for a vehicle includes a housing and a micro optics assembly including a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes: a light source to …

DRIVE·Apr 30·2 min read

G01S7/4813 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Systems and Methods for Localizing an Autonomous Vehicle

A computing system can obtain, through one or more sensor systems onboard an autonomous vehicle, a motion input, a surface element registration input representing one or more tracked surface elements,…

DRIVE·Apr 30·1 min read

B60W60/001 Aurora Operations, Inc.

System and Method for Determining Object Intention Through Visual Attributes

Systems and methods for determining object intentions through visual attributes are provided. A method can include determining, by a computing system, one or more regions of interest. The regions of i…

DRIVE·Apr 30·1 min read

B60W50/14 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Interference Detection Architecture for Autonomous Vehicles

Systems and methods to determine a potential interference between an object and an autonomous vehicle are disclosed. The method can include obtaining object-track data and autonomous vehicle-track dat…

DRIVE·Apr 30·1 min read

B60W30/0956 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Perception System for Autonomous Vehicles

An example method includes generating, based on sensor data representing an environment, a plurality of proposed detection outputs corresponding to a plurality of positions in a representation of the …

DRIVE·Apr 30·1 min read

G06V10/776 Aurora Operations, Inc.

SUBMAP GEOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS

A method includes obtaining map data associated with a map of a geographic location including one or more roadways, the map including a first submap represented by a first local Euclidean space and a …

DRIVE·Apr 2·1 min read

G01C21/367 Aurora Operations, Inc.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIDAR MEASUREMENT WITH REDUCED PEAK-FITTING BIAS

A LIDAR sensor system includes one or more processors. The processors transmit a signal to an environment of the LIDAR sensor system, receive, from an object in the environment, a return signal in res…

DRIVE·Mar 5·1 min read

G01S7/4866 Aurora Operations, Inc.

TRACK BASED MAP ANOMALY DETECTION

An autonomous vehicle control system and method may detect the tracks of non-ego vehicles in a roadway and use those tracks to detect roadway closure events ahead of an autonomous vehicle based at lea…

DRIVE·Feb 26·1 min read

B60W60/0015 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Longitudinal Bias Correction in Autonomous Vehicles

An example method includes obtaining a LIDAR scan including a plurality of LIDAR points. The LIDAR scan being descriptive of an environment of an autonomous vehicle. The method includes obtaining a su…

DRIVE·Feb 12·1 min read

G01S17/931 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning

The present disclosure provides an example method that includes: (a) obtaining context data descriptive of an environment surrounding an autonomous vehicle, the context data based on map data and perc…

DRIVE·Jul 3·1 min read

B60W60/0011 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Autonomous Vehicle Having Multiple Compute Lane Motion Control

An autonomous vehicle includes a first compute lane, the first compute lane including a first motion planner configured to output a first motion trajectory at a first planning cycle; a second compute …

DRIVE·Jun 26·1 min read

B60W30/18163 Aurora Operations, Inc.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF LIDAR SENSOR SYSTEMS HAVING INTEGRATED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system includes a circuit module. The circuit module includes a silicon substrate having a first thermal feature. The circuit module includes a III-V semic…

DRIVE·Jun 26·1 min read

G01S17/931 Aurora Operations, Inc.

LIDAR Sensor System Including Particular Optic Design

A Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensor system for a vehicle includes a light source to emit a beam, a first optical component to direct the beam emitted by the light source, an optical isolator …

DRIVE·Jun 19·1 min read

G01S17/931 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Vehicle Operator Awareness System

Systems and methods for maintaining autonomous vehicle operator awareness are provided. A method can include determining, by a computing system, an awareness challenge for an operator of a vehicle. Th…

DRIVE·Apr 10·1 min read

B60W50/14 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Systems and Methods for Localizing an Autonomous Vehicle

DRIVE·Mar 20·1 min read

B60W60/001 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Map-Anchored Object Detection

An example method includes (a) obtaining sensor data descriptive of an environment of an autonomous vehicle; (b) obtaining a plurality of travel way markers from map data descriptive of the environmen…

DRIVE·Jan 23·1 min read

G06T7/74 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Systems and Methods for Sensor Data Processing and Object Detection and Motion Prediction for Robotic Platforms

Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting and predicting the motion of objects within the surrounding environment of a system such as an autonomous vehicle. For example, an autonomous vehicle ca…

DRIVE·Nov 7·2 min read

G05B13/0265 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Systems and Methods for Motion Forecasting and Planning for Autonomous Vehicles

Systems and methods are disclosed for motion forecasting and planning for autonomous vehicles. For example, a plurality of future traffic scenarios are determined by modeling a joint distribution of a…

DRIVE·Nov 7·1 min read

B60W60/0027 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Systems and Methods for Autonomous Vehicle Validation

An example method includes obtaining log data descriptive of an exemplar action of an exemplar vehicle in an environment, the exemplar action occurring in an initial state of the environment; determin…

DRIVE·Sep 26·2 min read

B60W60/0015 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Systems and Methods for Vehicle Spatial Path Sampling

Systems and methods for vehicle spatial path sampling are provided. The method includes obtaining an initial travel path for an autonomous vehicle from a first location to a second location and vehicl…

DRIVE·Sep 19·2 min read

G05D1/0212 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Removable Automotive LIDAR Data Collection POD

A vehicle agnostic removable pod can be mounted on a vehicle using one or more legs of a pod mount. The removable pod can collect and time stamp a variety of environmental data as well as vehicle data…

DRIVE·Sep 19·1 min read

G05D1/0231 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Systems and Methods for Generating Basis Paths for Autonomous Vehicle Motion Control

Systems and methods for basis path generation are provided. In particular, a computing system can obtain a target nominal path. The computing system can determine a current pose for an autonomous vehi…

DRIVE·Aug 15·2 min read

G05D1/0217 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Systems and Methods for Autonomous Vehicle Controls

Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicle are provided. A method can include obtaining, by a computing system, data indicative of a plurality of objects in a surrounding environment of th…

DRIVE·Jul 18·1 min read

B60W60/0018 Aurora Operations, Inc.

REMOTE LIVE MAP SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

A live map system may be used to propagate observations collected by autonomous vehicles operating in an environment to other autonomous vehicles and thereby supplement a digital map used in the contr…

DRIVE·Jul 4·1 min read

B60W60/001 Aurora Operations, Inc.

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE STEERABLE SENSOR MANAGEMENT

Various examples are directed to systems and methods for directing a field-of-view of a first sensor positioned on an autonomous vehicle. In one example, at least one processor selects a goal location…

DRIVE·Jul 4·1 min read

B60W60/001 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Control Of Autonomous Vehicle Based On Determined Yaw Parameter(s) of Additional Vehicle

Determining an instantaneous vehicle characteristic (e.g., at least one yaw rate) of an additional vehicle that is in addition to a vehicle being autonomously controlled, and adapting autonomous contr…

DRIVE·Jul 4·1 min read

B60W40/04 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Systems and Methods Related to Controlling Autonomous Vehicle(s)

Implementations process, using machine learning (ML) layer(s) of ML model(s), actor(s) from a past episode of locomotion of a vehicle and stream(s) in an environment of the vehicle during the past epi…

DRIVE·Jun 13·1 min read

B60W60/0027 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Multistage Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning

Example methods for multistage autonomous vehicle motion planning include obtaining sensor data descriptive of an environment of the autonomous vehicle; identifying one or more objects in the environm…

DRIVE·May 23·1 min read

B60W60/0011 Aurora Operations, Inc.

RADAR Sensor System for Vehicles

A radio detection and ranging (RADAR) sensor system for vehicles, such as autonomous vehicles, includes a first RADAR sensor configured to provide first RADAR data descriptive of an environment of a v…

DRIVE·May 2·1 min read

B60W60/001 Aurora Operations, Inc.

PERCEPTION SYSTEM FOR AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE

An autonomous platform can obtain sensor data descriptive of an actor in an environment of an autonomous vehicle and at least a portion of the environment of the autonomous vehicle that does not inclu…

DRIVE·Mar 28·1 min read

G05D1/0221 Aurora Operations, Inc.

FAULT DETECTION IN CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE

A control system for an autonomous vehicle includes a time sensitive network switch and a control system interface. The control system interface includes a primary processing unit, a secondary process…

DRIVE·Mar 28·1 min read

B60W60/0021 Aurora Operations, Inc.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE(S)

Systems and methods related to controlling an autonomous vehicle (“AV”) are described herein. Implementations can obtain a plurality of instances that each include input and output. The input can incl…

DRIVE·Feb 8·1 min read

B60W60/0011 Aurora Operations, Inc.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INFORMATION ON REMAINDER OF MEASUREMENT USING SENSOR DATA

A method may include obtaining lidar data comprising a plurality of lidar returns from an environment of an autonomous vehicle. The lidar data may be processed with a machine learning model to generat…

DRIVE·Nov 23·1 min read

B60W60/001 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Removable Automotive LIDAR Data Collection POD

DRIVE·Nov 2·1 min read

G05D1/0231 Aurora Operations, Inc.

LIDAR SYSTEM

A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system includes a window, a laser source configured to generate a beam, one or more scanning optics configured to output the beam through the window, and a…

DRIVE·Oct 19·1 min read

G01S17/931 Aurora Operations, Inc.

Control Of Autonomous Vehicle Based On Determined Yaw Parameter(s) of Additional Vehicle

DRIVE·Aug 31·1 min read

B60W40/04 Aurora Operations, Inc.