Patent ID: 11885910
Assignee: UATC, LLC
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. An autonomous vehicle computing system, comprising:
a LIDAR system configured to transmit ranging signals relative to an autonomous vehicle and to generate LIDAR data, wherein the LIDAR data includes a plurality of LIDAR points detected by the LIDAR system;
one or more processors;
a classification model, wherein the classification model has been trained to classify cells of LIDAR data; and
at least one tangible, non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:
accessing a predetermined set of objects of interest;
determining one or more cell statistics characterizing the LIDAR data corresponding to the cells, the one or more cell statistics characterizing respective LIDAR data corresponding to a respective cell and comprising one or more parameters associated with a distribution of a plurality of detected LIDAR data points within the respective cell, a power of the plurality of detected LIDAR data points, or an intensity of the plurality of detected LIDAR data points projected onto the respective cell;
providing the one or more cell statistics as input to the classification model;
receiving, as output of the classification model, a classification indicating whether for each cell includes a detected object from the predetermined set of objects of interest; and

controlling one or more vehicle controls of the autonomous vehicle based, at least in part, on a determination whether the cell includes at least one object included in the predetermined set of objects of interest.