MULTIMODAL SENSING IN AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLES WITH SELF-HEALING CAPABILITIES

An apparatus for autonomous vehicles includes a perception pipeline having independent classification processes operating in parallel to respectively identify objects belonging to a specific object type based on sensor data flows from multiple ones of a plurality of different types of sensors. The a...

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Main Authors ALVAREZ, Ignacio J, LOPEZ MEYER, Paulo, ARDITTI ILITZKY, David, ZAMORA ESQUIVEL, Julio C
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 03.09.2020
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL
CONTROLLING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS
HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS
PHYSICS
PRESENTATION OF DATA
RECOGNITION OF DATA
RECORD CARRIERS
REGULATING
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Summary:An apparatus for autonomous vehicles includes a perception pipeline having independent classification processes operating in parallel to respectively identify objects belonging to a specific object type based on sensor data flows from multiple ones of a plurality of different types of sensors. The apparatus also includes a sensor monitoring stage to operate in parallel with the perception pipeline and to use the sensor data flows to estimate and track a confidence level of each of the plurality of different types of sensors, and nullify a deficient sensor when the confidence level associated with the deficient sensor fails to meet a confidence threshold.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201716634542