Patent ID: 11914382
Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. An autonomous vehicle (AV), comprising:
a motor;
a steering system;
a braking system; and
a computing system configured to perform acts comprising:
receiving a dispatch instruction from a server computing device in communication with the AV, the dispatch instruction indicating an avoidance area in an operational area of the AV, the dispatch instruction based upon a ranking of a plurality of avoidance area groups, wherein a first avoidance area group in the avoidance area groups includes the avoidance area, the ranking based upon a recursive evaluation of the impacts of the avoidance area groups on routing metrics for a set of routes through the operational area of the AV, the ranking indicative of relative impacts of the avoidance area groups on the routing metrics, wherein a first avoidance area and a second avoidance area are assigned to a same group area group based upon the first avoidance area and the second avoidance area being within a threshold distance of one another;
controlling at least one of the motor, the steering system, or the braking system to cause the AV to navigate to the avoidance area; and
causing the AV to perform a mapping operation in the avoidance area.