公开(公告)号：US11938963B1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-26

申请号：US18090364

申请日：2022-12-28

Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Niels Joubert ,  Benjamin Kaplan ,  Stephen O'Hara

IPC: B60W60/00 ,  B60W40/10 ,  G01C21/00 ,  G08G1/0967

CPC classification number: B60W60/001 ,  B60W40/10 ,  G01C21/3841 ,  G01C21/3896 ,  G08G1/096708 ,  B60W2420/00 ,  B60W2552/50 ,  B60W2554/20 ,  B60W2556/40 ,  B60W2756/10

Abstract: 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 control of the autonomous vehicles. In addition, a live map system in some instances may be used to propagate location-based teleassist triggers to autonomous vehicles operating within an environment. A location-based teleassist trigger may be generated, for example, in association with a teleassist session conducted between an autonomous vehicle and a remote teleassist system proximate a particular location, and may be used to automatically trigger a teleassist session for another autonomous vehicle proximate that location and/or to propagate a suggested action to that other autonomous vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20250074451A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-06

申请号：US18242328

申请日：2023-09-05

Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Mohamed Chaabane ,  Benjamin Kaplan ,  Yevgeni Litvin ,  Stephen O'Hara ,  Sean Vig

IPC: B60W60/00 ,  G06V20/56 ,  G06V20/58

Abstract: A unified boundary machine learning model is capable of processing perception data received from various types of perception sensors on an autonomous vehicle to generate perceived boundaries of various semantic boundary types. Such perceived boundaries may then be used, for example, to control the autonomous vehicle, e.g., by generating a trajectory therefor. In some instances, the various semantic boundary types detectable by a unified boundary machine learning model may include at least a virtual construction semantic boundary type associated with a virtual boundary formed by multiple spaced apart construction elements, as well as an additional semantic boundary type associated with one or more other types of boundaries such as boundaries defined by physical barriers, painted or taped lines, road edges, etc.

公开(公告)号：US12151706B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-26

申请号：US18581173

申请日：2024-02-19

Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Niels Joubert ,  Benjamin Kaplan ,  Stephen O'Hara

IPC: B60W60/00 ,  B60W40/10 ,  G01C21/00 ,  G08G1/0967

Abstract: 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 control of the autonomous vehicles. In addition, a live map system in some instances may be used to propagate location-based teleassist triggers to autonomous vehicles operating within an environment. A location-based teleassist trigger may be generated, for example, in association with a teleassist session conducted between an autonomous vehicle and a remote teleassist system proximate a particular location, and may be used to automatically trigger a teleassist session for another autonomous vehicle proximate that location and/or to propagate a suggested action to that other autonomous vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US12158762B1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-03

申请号：US18244770

申请日：2023-09-11

Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Stephen O'Hara ,  Ariel Quinn

IPC: G05D1/246 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06F40/284 ,  G06F40/56 ,  G06V20/56 ,  G06V20/58

Abstract: A method is provided, that includes: receiving camera data from a perception system of an autonomous vehicle; and providing the camera data to a visual language model, where the visual language model includes a mapping of a corpus of images and a corpus of text to a common parameter space. The method further includes: receiving from the visual language model an output corresponding to one or more text tokens; accessing a configuration file comprising a plurality of text tokens representing a plurality of objects or events of interest to the autonomous vehicle; and identifying a respective object or event of interest in an environment of the autonomous vehicle by determining that a text token of the output matches a respective one of the plurality of text tokens in the configuration file. The autonomous vehicle can then be controlled based at least in part on the respective object or event of interest.

公开(公告)号：US20240217546A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-04

申请号：US18581173

申请日：2024-02-19

Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Niels Joubert ,  Benjamin Kaplan ,  Stephen O'Hara

IPC: B60W60/00 ,  B60W40/10 ,  G01C21/00 ,  G08G1/0967

CPC classification number: B60W60/001 ,  B60W40/10 ,  G01C21/3841 ,  G01C21/3896 ,  G08G1/096708 ,  B60W2420/00 ,  B60W2552/50 ,  B60W2554/20 ,  B60W2556/40 ,  B60W2756/10

Abstract: 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 control of the autonomous vehicles. In addition, a live map system in some instances may be used to propagate location-based teleassist triggers to autonomous vehicles operating within an environment. A location-based teleassist trigger may be generated, for example, in association with a teleassist session conducted between an autonomous vehicle and a remote teleassist system proximate a particular location, and may be used to automatically trigger a teleassist session for another autonomous vehicle proximate that location and/or to propagate a suggested action to that other autonomous vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20250077942A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-06

申请号：US18241883

申请日：2023-09-03

Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Mohamed Chaabane ,  Benjamin Kaplan ,  Yevgeni Litvin ,  Stephen O'Hara ,  Sean Vig

IPC: G06N20/00 ,  B60W60/00

Abstract: A unified boundary machine learning model is capable of processing perception data received from various types of perception sensors on an autonomous vehicle to generate perceived boundaries of various semantic boundary types. Such perceived boundaries may then be used, for example, to control the autonomous vehicle, e.g., by generating a trajectory therefor. In some instances, the various semantic boundary types detectable by a unified boundary machine learning model may include at least a virtual construction semantic boundary type associated with a virtual boundary formed by multiple spaced apart construction elements, as well as an additional semantic boundary type associated with one or more other types of boundaries such as boundaries defined by physical barriers, painted or taped lines, road edges, etc.

公开(公告)号：US20250065912A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-27

申请号：US18941767

申请日：2024-11-08

Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Niels Joubert ,  Benjamin Kaplan ,  Stephen O'Hara

IPC: B60W60/00 ,  B60W40/10 ,  G01C21/00 ,  G08G1/0967

Abstract: 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 control of the autonomous vehicles. In addition, a live map system in some instances may be used to propagate location-based teleassist triggers to autonomous vehicles operating within an environment. A location-based teleassist trigger may be generated, for example, in association with a teleassist session conducted between an autonomous vehicle and a remote teleassist system proximate a particular location, and may be used to automatically trigger a teleassist session for another autonomous vehicle proximate that location and/or to propagate a suggested action to that other autonomous vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US12195038B1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US18396363

申请日：2023-12-26

Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Chris Leibs ,  Stephen O'Hara

IPC: B60W60/00

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle control system and method may utilize a dual mode map including sparse map data for some portions of an environment that lacks some of the data maintained in dense map data for other portions of the environment. Sparse map data may be used, for instance, to address a recently-established construction area on a roadway that is incompatible with dense map data that was previously used to operate on the roadway, enabling operation of an autonomous vehicle in the construction area to proceed even in the absence of dense map data for the construction area, e.g., by dynamically augmenting the sparse map data to incorporate additional data sensed by a perception system of the autonomous vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US12013256B1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-18

申请号：US18241884

申请日：2023-09-03

Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Benjamin Kaplan ,  Stephen O'Hara ,  Kevin Ullmann

IPC: G06V20/56 ,  G01C21/00

CPC classification number: G01C21/3848 ,  G01C21/3815 ,  G06V20/588

Abstract: Discrepancies between mapped lanes on a roadway and perceived lanes perceived by the perception system of an autonomous vehicle may be identified and used to augment map data used by the autonomous vehicle, thereby enabling the autonomous vehicle to operate even in the event of the identified discrepancy.