PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988658
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["701", "025000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for controlling an autonomous vehicle (AV). A map generator module processes sensor data to generate a world representation of a particular driving scenario (PDS). A scene understanding module (SUM) processes navigation route data, position information and a feature map to define an autonomous driving task (ADT), and decomposes the ADT into a sequence of sub-tasks. The SUM selects a particular combination of sensorimotor primitive modules (SPMs) to be enabled and executed for the PDS. Each one of the SPMs addresses a sub-task in the sequence. A primitive processor module executes the particular combination of the SPMs such that each generates a vehicle trajectory and speed (VTS) profile. A selected one of the VTS profiles is then processed to generate the control signals, which are then processed at a low-level controller to generate commands that control one or more of actuators of the AV

Claim (Index 1):
A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle, the method comprising:\n processing, at a map generator module of a high-level controller, sensor data from a sensor system to generate a world representation of a particular driving scenario as represented by the sensor data, navigation route data that indicates a route of the autonomous vehicle, and vehicle position information that indicates location of the autonomous vehicle at a particular instant of time; and processing, at a scene understanding module of the high-level controller, navigation route data that indicates a route of the autonomous vehicle, position information that indicates location of the autonomous vehicle and a feature map of the world representation to define an autonomous driving task; decomposing, at the scene understanding module of the high-level controller, the autonomous driving task into a sequence of sub-tasks that address the particular driving scenario; selecting, at the scene understanding module of the high-level controller, a particular combination of sensorimotor primitive modules to be enabled and executed for the particular driving scenario from a plurality of sensorimotor primitive modules, wherein each one of the particular combination of the sensorimotor primitive modules addresses a sub-task in the sequence; retrieving, via a selector module, the particular combination of the sensorimotor primitive modules from memory; executing, at a primitive processor module, the particular combination of the sensorimotor primitive modules such that each generates a vehicle trajectory and speed profile; processing a selected one of the vehicle trajectory and speed profiles to generate the control signals; and processing, at a low-level controller, the control signals to generate commands that control one or more of actuators of the autonomous vehicle to execute one or more control actions to automatically control the autonomous vehicle to automate the autonomous driving task encountered in the particular driving scenario.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92045
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15688429', '15609344', '10971725', '15806367', '14797709']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4468408266756055
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4731928143551552
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4494760254435604
- Mean Citation Score: 208.525198
- Max Citation Score: 222.46404
- Similarity Product: 183.5880312704229

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test