Route Planning for an Autonomous Vehicle

• US 20170356748A1
• Filed: 06/14/2016
• Published: 12/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Motional AD, LLC (Aptiv PLC)
• Original Assignee: nuTonomy, Inc. (Aptiv PLC)
• Inventors: Iagnemma, Karl
• Application Number:
  US15/182,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20170356748A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance

Abstract

Among other things, a route to be traveled by an autonomous vehicle as of a time or range of times is selected from a set of two or more candidate routes, all of the candidate routes in the set having a viability status that exceeds a viability threshold.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising

by computer selecting from a set of two or more candidate routes, a route to be traveled by an autonomous vehicle as of a time or range of times, all of the candidate routes in the set having a viability status that exceeds a viability threshold.

2. The method of claim 1 in which the viability status comprises an indication that the candidate route can be traveled safely or robustly or both by the autonomous vehicle.

3. The method of claim 1 comprising receiving information about the candidate routes is a product or feed of data from a source.

4. The method of claim 1 comprising using information about the candidate routes that is part of road network information.

5. The method of claim 1 in which the candidate routes include routes containing at least one road segment that has not been validated.