Autonomous vehicle operational management including operating a partially observable Markov decision process model instance

K Wray, S Witwicki, S Zilberstein… - US Patent 11,500,380, 2022 - Google Patents
Autonomous vehicle operational management may include traversing, by an autonomous
vehicle, a vehicle transporta tion network. Traversing the vehicle transportation network may …

Self-driving vehicle collision management system

MS Gordon, SF Hobson, JR Kozloski, A Kundu… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
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6, 622, 082 B19/2003 Schmidt et al. 6, 731, 202 B1 5/2004 Klaus 6, 810, 312 B2 10/2004 …

Configuring a self-driving vehicle for charitable donations pickup and delivery

MS Gordon, JR Kozloski, CA Pickover - US Patent 10,643,256, 2020 - Google Patents
A method configures and maneuvers a self-driving vehicle to deliver a charitable item. One
or more processors receive a first message indicating that a donor has a charitable item …

Evaluation framework for decision making of autonomous driving vehicle

Y Jiang, D Li, J Tao, J Hu, L Li, G Yang… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
In one embodiment, systems and methods are disclosed for evaluating autonomous driving
vehicle (ADV) driving decisions. A driving scenario is selected, such as a route or …

Automated insurance toggling for self-driving vehicles

MS Gordon, JR Kozloski, A Kundu, PK Malkin… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
A method and/or computer program product automatically toggles insurance policy
provisions for a self-driving vehicle (SDV) based on an operational mode of the SDV. One or …

Self-driving vehicle road safety flare deploying system

MS Gordon, JR Kozloski, CA Pickover - US Patent 10,529,147, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method deploys a road safety flare near a faulty self driving vehicle
(SDV). One or more processors detect a driving problem severity level for a faulty SDV. One …

Apparatus and method for post-processing a decision-making model of an autonomous vehicle using multivariate data

O Bentahar, A Jamgochian, KH Wray… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
An apparatus for post-processing of a decision-making model of an autonomous vehicle
receives a decision-making model including a plurality of states. The model is processed …

Autonomous system action explanation

K Myers, M Gervasio - US Patent App. 16/224,360, 2020 - Google Patents
Techniques are disclosed for a self-reflection layer of an autonomous system that improves
trust and collaboration with a user by identifying actions of the autonomous system that may …

Explainability of autonomous vehicle decision making

KH Wray, O Bentahar, A Vagadia, L Cesafsky… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
2022-03-09 Assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC., THE UNIVERSITY OF
MASSACHUSETTS reassignment NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF …

Systems and methods for notifying an occupant of a cause for a deviation in a vehicle

JH Marcoux, EB Olson - US Patent 10,546,499, 2020 - Google Patents
Systems, and methods for notifying an occupant of a deter mined cause for a deviation in a
highly automated vehicle are described herein. The vehicle can detect a plurality of objects …