AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SYSTEM

• Main Authors: TANRIOVER, Cagri C, KAVULYA, Soila P, ZAGE, David J, ADENWALA, Fatema S, WOUHAYBI, Rita H, ALVAREZ, Ignacio J, MOUSTAFA, Hassnaa, GALAN-OLIVERAS, Magdiel F, ELLI, Maria S, TATOURIAN, Igor, LOPEZ-ARAIZA, Christopher E, CHEN, Li, SANKARAN KUTTY, Jithin Sankar
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 21.06.2023
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; COMPUTING; CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; COUNTING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes an interface to receive sensor data from a plurality of sensors of an autonomous vehicle. The apparatus also includes processing circuitry to apply a sensor abstraction process to the sensor data to produce abstracted scene data, and to use the abstracted scene data in a perception phase of a control process for the autonomous vehicle. The sensor abstraction process may include one or more of: applying a Sensor data response normalization process to the sensor data, applying a warp process to the sensor data, and applying a filtering process to the sensor data.