WAYMO LLC (20250102679). SENSOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION FOR VEHICLES
SENSOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION FOR VEHICLES
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Inventor(s)
Colin Braley of Mountain View CA US
Antonio Teran Espinoza of Cambridge MA US
William Baxter of Kirkland WA US
Michael Marx of Mountain View CA US
Luke Wachter of Berkeley CA US
SENSOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION FOR VEHICLES
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250102679 titled 'SENSOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION FOR VEHICLES
Original Abstract Submitted
aspects of the disclosure provide for controlling behaviors of autonomous vehicles based on evaluation of sensors of those vehicles. for instance, sensor data including distance and intensity information for a point in an environment of an autonomous vehicle may be received. an expected intensity value from a pre-stored fair weather reference map may be identified based on a location of the point. an effective detection range for the sensor may be dynamically determined based on the expected intensity and the intensity information for the point. a behavior of the autonomous vehicle may be controlled based on the effective detection range.