AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SYSTEM

• Main Authors: CHATTOPADHYAY, Rita, OTA, Jeffrey, M, SADEGHI, Bahareh, KHODAM HAZRATI, Mehrnaz, MOUSTAFA, Iman, Saleh, KASCHUB, Cynthia, E, KAVULYA, Soila, P, LOPEZ-ARAIZA, Christopher, E, WOUHAYBI, Rita, H, GALAN-OLIVERAS, Magdiel, F, CHEN, Li, ANANDARAJ, Subramanian, IYER, Darshan, SRIPATHI, Karthik, Reddy, SALVI, Darshana, D, SAKHAMOORI, Pradeep, MARTINEZ-CANALES, Monica, Lucia, ALVAREZ, Ignacio, J, SANKARAN KUTTY, Jithin, Sankar, ROBB, Patricia, Ann, JABER, Suhel, MOUSTAFA, Hassnaa, ADENWALA, Fatema, S, ZAGE, David, J, AGRAWAL, Pragya, VAN BEEK, Petrus, J, TATOURIAN, Igor, AERRABOTU, Naveen, TANRIOVER, Cagri, C, ELLI, Maria, S, ELTABAKH, Mohamed
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 09.02.2022
• Subjects: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; CONTROLLING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; 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.