Patent ID: 11884302
Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method for operating an autonomous vehicle in the presence of one or more mobile entities, the method comprising:
monitoring interactions between the one or more mobile entities and/or between the autonomous vehicle and the one or more mobile entities, including for each mobile entity of the one or more mobile entities, estimating a corresponding social behavior score for said entity based at least in part on the monitored interactions;
planning an operation of the autonomous vehicle using the estimated social behavior score for each of the one or more mobile entities; and
causing the autonomous vehicle to operate according to the planned operation,
wherein planning the operation of the autonomous vehicle includes performing a computer-implemented multi-agent game-theoretically based decision process
wherein estimating the social behavior score comprises estimating a Social Value Orientation (SVO).