Agent prioritization for autonomous vehicles
US11048253B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 21, 2018 |
| Grant date | Jun 29, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 7, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06N20/10
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying high-priority agents in the vicinity of a vehicle and, for only those agents which are high priority agents, generating data characterizing the agents using a first prediction model. In a first aspect, a system identifies multiple agents in an environment in a vicinity of a vehicle. The system generates a respective importance score for each of the agents by processing a feature representation of each agent using an importance scoring model. The importance score for an agent characterizes an estimated impact of the agent on planning decisions generated by a planning system of the vehicle which plans a future trajectory of the vehicle. The system identifies, as high-priority agents, a proper subset of the plurality of agents with the highest importance scores.
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