Patent ID: 11964670
Assignee: NURO, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A method of testing autonomous vehicles, the method comprising:
generating, by a set of sensors of an autonomous vehicle, sensor data;
causing one or more aspects of a perception system of the autonomous vehicle to be disabled such that the perception system ceases to generate real-world perception data based on the sensor data;
while the one or more aspects of the perception system are disabled, determining a location of the autonomous vehicle within a real-world vehicle testing space based on the sensor data and autonomously navigating the autonomous vehicle through the real-world vehicle testing space;
in response to determining that a first set of trigger conditions associated with a first test scenario is satisfied, causing a first set of simulated perception data to be processed by the autonomous vehicle, the first set of simulated perception data being associated with the first test scenario; and
evaluating performance of the autonomous vehicle in response to the processing of the first set of simulated perception data.