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Vehicle-provided recommendations for use of ADAS systems

Systems and methods are provided for an advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) that obtains data from a plurality of sensors. In some embodiments, the system can retrieve data regarding a user's pas…

DRIVE·5d ago·1 min read

B60W50/14 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPDATING THE PARAMETERS OF A MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER WITH LEARNED OPERATIONAL AND VEHICLE PARAMETERS GENERATED USING SIMULATIONS AND MACHINE LEARNING

A computer-implemented method is disclosed for determining optimal operational parameters for a model predictive controller (MPC) for vehicle control. The method includes training a machine learning m…

DRIVE·Jun 4·2 min read

B60W60/001 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

Systems and methods for reducing friction on cargo area surface

Systems and methods for optimizing the loading or unloading of cargo in a cargo area is provided. Friction-reducing elements, such as rails, may be disposed atop a surface of the cargo area. The frict…

DRIVE·Jun 2·1 min read

B60P1/58 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

DRIVER FITNESS TEST

A system includes sensors that determine one or more attributes associated with associated with an occupant within a vehicle. The system includes one or more datastores, one or more processors, and a …

DRIVE·Apr 2·1 min read

B60W40/08 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SELF EXTRINSIC SELF-CALIBRATION VIA GEOMETRICALLY CONSISTENT SELF-SUPERVISED DEPTH AND EGO-MOTION LEARNING

Systems and methods described herein relate to self-supervised scale-aware learning of camera extrinsic parameters. One embodiment processes instantaneous velocity between a target image and a context…

DRIVE·Apr 2·1 min read

G06V20/56 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

OVER-ACTUATED VEHICLE STEERING CONTROL SYSTEM TO COMPENSATE FOR INSTABILITY

Systems and methods actuate torque vectoring and independent wheel steering control capabilities of an over-actuated vehicle in order to compensate for instability in potentially dangerous driving sce…

DRIVE·Feb 19·1 min read

B62D6/00 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SMART V2H FOR GRID EMISSIONS REDUCTION AND EMERGENCY POWER DISTRIBUTION

Systems and methods are provided for a carbon footprint aware V2H system that supplies power from a vehicle to a household based on a carbon footprint of an electrical transmission grid connected to t…

DRIVE·Jan 15·1 min read

H02J3/322 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE, TASK-AWARE OPPONENT MODELING IN AUTONOMOUS RACING

A method for an online, task-aware opponent modeling in autonomous racing is described. The method includes concurrently training an opponent-aware policy and an opponent-aware encoder using reinforce…

DRIVE·Dec 11·1 min read

G06N3/092 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HAPTIC FEEDBACK TO INFLUENCE AN AFFECTIVE STATE

A method for regulating an affective state of a driver includes transmitting, to a remote monitoring system, vital sign data of the driver in accordance with monitoring one or more vital signs of the …

DRIVE·Aug 21·1 min read

B60Q9/00 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

METHOD FOR POLYNOMIAL BASED PREDICTIONS OF EGO VEHICLES AND ADVERSARIAL AGENTS

A method for a driver prediction system is described. The method includes training a neural network to a learn a set of polynomial basis functions. The method also includes selecting, using a trained …

DRIVE·Apr 17·1 min read

B60W60/001 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIVE REPLAY AND SUGGESTION FOR DRIVER SKILL IMPROVEMENT

A method for a replay driver skill improvement system is described. The method includes logging vehicle commands requested by a vehicle operator of an ego vehicle to perform a selected driving maneuve…

DRIVE·Apr 10·1 min read

B60W50/087 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

CUSTOMIZABLE CAR SETUP OPTIMIZATION AND STRATEGY BASED ON INDIVIDUAL DRIVING STYLE AND PREFERENCES

Systems and methods are provided for determining vehicle configurations. The system can receive simulation data or actual driving data of a driving track corresponding to a driver and associate the si…

DRIVE·Apr 3·1 min read

B60W50/14 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SELF EXTRINSIC SELF-CALIBRATION VIA GEOMETRICALLY CONSISTENT SELF-SUPERVISED DEPTH AND EGO-MOTION LEARNING

DRIVE·Mar 20·1 min read

G06V20/56 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

REFERENCE TRACKING FOR TWO AUTONOMOUS DRIVING MODES USING ONE CONTROL SCHEME

Systems and methods of using a common control scheme to autonomously controlling a vehicle during two different autonomous driving modes are provided. In particular, embodiments of the presently discl…

DRIVE·Jan 9·1 min read

B60W60/001 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CAPTIONS FOR TRIGGERS

A method for triggering capture of diverse driving data from captions is described. The method includes training a discriminator network to identify similarities between a received text description an…

DRIVE·Nov 28·1 min read

B60W60/00 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

THROTTLE ASSISTANCE FOR AGGRESSIVE DRIVING MANEUVERS

Systems and methods provide for corrective assistance to maintain a stable controllable drift, while permitting a drift driving experience for the driver. Examples of the systems and methods disclosed…

DRIVE·Oct 3·1 min read

B60W30/045 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SCALE-AWARE DEPTH ESTIMATION USING MULTI-CAMERA PROJECTION LOSS

A method for scale-aware depth estimation using multi-camera projection loss is described. The method includes determining a multi-camera photometric loss associated with a multi-camera rig of an ego …

DRIVE·Sep 26·1 min read

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ESTIMATING A TRAJECTORY OF AN OBJECT IN AN ENVIRONMENT

A method for interacting with an object includes identifying, via a keypoint classifier, one or more uncertainty regions in an environment based on an estimated trajectory of an object in the environm…

DRIVE·Aug 15·1 min read

B25J9/1664 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TARGET ASSIGNMENT FOR END-TO-END THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DETECTION

Systems and methods for enhanced end-to-end three-dimensional (3-D) object detection are disclosed that improve detecting objects in the 3D space from images, such as monocular camera image that may b…

DRIVE·Jul 25·2 min read

G06V20/58 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPTH SYNTHESIS WITH TRANSFORMER ARCHITECTURES

Systems and methods for enhanced computer vision capabilities, particularly including depth synthesis, which may be applicable to autonomous vehicle operation are described. A vehicle may be equipped …

DRIVE·Jul 25·1 min read

G06T15/10 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

PHOTOMETRIC MASKS FOR SELF-SUPERVISED DEPTH LEARNING

A method estimating a depth of an environment includes generating, via a cross-attention model, a cross-attention cost volume based on a current image of the environment and a previous image of the en…

DRIVE·Jul 4·1 min read

B60W60/001 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

DATA-DRIVEN WARM START SELECTION FOR OPTIMIZATION-BASED TRAJECTORY PLANNING

Systems and methods for trajectory planning for an autonomous vehicle, may include: computing features for each of the plurality of candidate trajectories; computing scores for the features of the can…

DRIVE·Jul 4·1 min read

B60W60/001 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

TRAFFIC LIGHT ACTIVE LEARNING PIPELINE

Systems and methods are provided for developing/updating training datasets for traffic light detection/perception models. V2I-based information may indicate a particular traffic light state/state of t…

DRIVE·Jun 27·1 min read

G06V20/584 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SELF-SUPERVISED TRAINING FROM A TEACHER NETWORK FOR COST VOLUME BASED DEPTH ESTIMATES

A method for controlling a vehicle in an environment includes generating, via a cross-attention model, a cross-attention cost volume based on a current image of the environment and a previous image of…

DRIVE·Mar 14·1 min read

G06T7/55 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

ADAPTIVE DYNAMIC DRIVER TRAINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS

Systems and methods are provided for dynamic driver training, and may include: a communication interface to receive sensor data, the sensor data comprising driver biometric data and driver performance…

DRIVE·Feb 1·1 min read

B60W40/09 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

TRIP SIMULATOR FOR INCREASED TIME-EFFICIENCY WHEN CHARGING

A method for an electric vehicle trip simulator is described. The method includes determining parameters for an upcoming trip of an electric vehicle, including at least a start location and a destinat…

DRIVE·Jan 25·1 min read

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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIPLE ALGORITHM SELECTION

Systems and methods of model or prediction algorithm selection are provided. An autonomous control system may include a perception component that, based on environmental inputs regarding an object(s),…

DRIVE·Jan 25·1 min read

B60W60/0016 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR OBJECT DETECTION FROM UNLABELED POINT CLOUD SEQUENCES

A method of representation learning for object detection from unlabeled point cloud sequences is described. The method includes detecting moving object traces from temporally-ordered, unlabeled point …

DRIVE·Jan 11·1 min read

B60W60/001 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

PEER-TO-PEER OCCUPANCY ESTIMATION

A method for indicating occlusion information at an ego agent includes observing a spatial area from a first viewpoint of one or more first sensors associated with the ego agent. The method also inclu…

DRIVE·Dec 28·1 min read

B60W50/14 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

PURPOSEFUL BRAKE-INDUCED WHEEL LOCKUP FOR VEHICLE STABILITY CONTROL IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Systems and Methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle, may include: receiving sensor data, the sensor data comprising vehicle parameter information for the autonomous vehicle; using the sensor dat…

DRIVE·Nov 16·1 min read

B60T8/1755 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRIVER STATE CONDITIONED VISUAL SIGNALS

Systems and methods for use of operator state conditions to generate, adapt or otherwise produce visual signals relaying information to the operator are disclosed. A monitoring system may observe and …

DRIVE·Nov 9·1 min read

B60W50/14 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

VEHICLE TAILLIGHT RECOGNITION BASED ON A VELOCITY ESTIMATION

A method for controlling an ego vehicle in an environment includes associating, by a velocity model, one or more objects within the environment with a respective velocity instance label. The method al…

DRIVE·Nov 2·2 min read

G06V20/584 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SYNCHRONIZING NEIGHBORING TILES IN A HIGH DEFINITION MAP

A method for synchronizing neighboring tiles in an electronic map is described. The method includes grouping neighboring tiles of the electronic map into a plurality of tile groups. The method also in…

DRIVE·Nov 2·1 min read

G01C21/3881 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

PARKED CAR CLASSIFICATION BASED ON A VELOCITY ESTIMATION

A method controlling an ego vehicle in an environment includes determining, via a flow model of a parked vehicle recognition system, a flow between a first representation of the environment and a seco…

DRIVE·Nov 2·1 min read

G06V20/58 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SHARED VISION SYSTEM BACKBONE

A method for generating a dense light detection and ranging (LiDAR) representation by a vision system includes receiving, at a sparse depth network, one or more sparse representations of an environmen…

DRIVE·Nov 2·1 min read

G06V20/58 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO UTILIZE USER TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS FOR AUTOMATIC VEHICLE CONTROLS

A system is provided for implementing trajectory analysis entry controls. A trajectory analysis entry control system is implemented in a vehicle, and supports remote and automatic entry control functi…

DRIVE·Oct 26·2 min read

B60R25/245 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VARIABLE BRAKE HOLD ACTUATION AND RELEASE

Systems and methods are provided for variable actuation and release of a vehicle's brake hold mechanism/function. A brake hold device may be implemented as a “tuner” or controller that can connect to …

DRIVE·Oct 26·1 min read

B60T8/17 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

USING FEEDBACK FOR MENTAL MODELING OF VEHICLE SURROUNDINGS

The disclosure generally relates to methods for assisting a driver of a vehicle that include monitoring the driver’s actions, during a first portion of time that starts when the driver begins to engag…

DRIVE·Oct 26·1 min read

B60W50/10 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING OCCLUDED CARGO

The disclosure generally describes a system for monitoring a storage compartment of a vehicle comprising a first sensor configured to detect a loading or unloading event, a second sensor configured to…

DRIVE·Oct 26·1 min read

G06Q10/0875 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

CONTROLLING COMFORT COMPONENTS OF A VEHICLE BASED ON AN OCCUPANCY STATE

A method for controlling a comfort component of a vehicle includes setting a comfort component, while a passenger is occupying the vehicle, to an active state to adjust a temperature within the vehicl…

DRIVE·Oct 26·2 min read

B60H1/00742 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.