Patent ID: 11884304
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 6:
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further comprising:
identifying whether a spatial gap exists including at least one time interval since a previous time interval which, when traversed by the actor was not included in a reference path of the AV, and predicting, based on the time interval, whether the AV is predicted to move through the actor, or alternatively, beside or around the actor, based on when a distance interval switches from ahead of to behind the AV, or alternatively, behind the AV to ahead of the AV, the method comprising:
setting a previous AV-side of the actor to be unknown if a spatial gap has been identified and there has not been a collision;
setting the AV-side of the actor to be unaltered at the time interval based on a longitudinal distance margin and detecting the collision when the longitudinal distance margin is equal to zero;
detecting the collision has occurred when a current AV-side of the actor has been altered and a gap in the distance interval is not found; and
setting the current AV-side of the actor as the previous AV-side of the actor when the collision has occurred.