Devices and methods for updating maps in autonomous driving systems in bandwidth constrained networks

by Richard Dorrance, Ignacio Alvarez, Deepak Dasalukunte, S M Iftekharul Alam, Sridhar Sharma, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, David Israel Gonzalez Aguirre, Ranganath Krishnan, Satish Jha

Abstract:

Vehicle navigation control systems in autonomous driving rely on the accuracy of maps which include features about a vehicle’s environment so that a vehicle may safely navigate through its surrounding area. Accordingly, this disclosure provides methods and devices which implement mechanisms for communicating features observed about a vehicle’s environment for use in updating maps so as to provide vehicles with accurate and “real-time” features of its surroundings while taking network resources, such as available frequency-time resources, into consideration.

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Reference:

R. Dorrance, I. Alvarez, D. Dasalukunte, S. M. I. Alam, S. Sharma, K. Sivanesan, D. I. G. Aguirre, R. Krishnan, S. Jha, "Devices and methods for updating maps in autonomous driving systems in bandwidth constrained networks," US Patent, US 11,375,352, June 2022.

Bibtex Entry:

@PATENT{Dorrance2022:US11375352,
    author    = {Dorrance, Richard and Alvarez, Ignacio and Dasalukunte, Deepak and Alam, S M Iftekharul and Sharma, Sridhar and Sivanesan, Kathiravetpillai and Aguirre, David Israel Gonzalez and Krishnan, Ranganath and Jha, Satish},
    title     = {{Devices and methods for updating maps in autonomous driving systems in bandwidth constrained networks}},
    year      = {2022},
    month     = {June},
    day       = {28},
    number    = {US 11,375,352},
    type      = {Patent},
    location  = {US},
    gpatentid = {US11375352},
    abstract  = {Vehicle navigation control systems in autonomous driving rely on the accuracy of maps which include features about a vehicle's environment so that a vehicle may safely navigate through its surrounding area. Accordingly, this disclosure provides methods and devices which implement mechanisms for communicating features observed about a vehicle's environment for use in updating maps so as to provide vehicles with accurate and “real-time” features of its surroundings while taking network resources, such as available frequency-time resources, into consideration.},
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}