Patent ID: 11921506
Assignee: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for real-time decision-making for a vehicle using belief state determination, the apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to:
receive, while the vehicle is traversing a vehicle transportation network, operational environment data, wherein the operational environment data includes data associated with an object external to the vehicle;
establish, using an operational environment monitor, an observation that relates the object to a distinct vehicle operation scenario;
compute, using a belief state model of the operational environment monitor, a belief state for the observation directly from the operational environment data;
provide, from the operational environment monitor, the computed belief state to a decision component implementing a policy that maps a respective belief state for the object within the distinct vehicle operation scenario to a respective candidate vehicle control action;
receive, from the policy of the decision component, a candidate vehicle control action; and
select, for traversing the vehicle transportation network, a vehicle control action from any available candidate vehicle control actions.