US Patent Issued to Zoox on Aug. 4 for "Autonomous vehicle performance modeling based on controller error" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,001, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Autonomous vehicle performance modeling based on controller error" was invented by Kshitij Agarwal (San Mateo, Calif.), Sven Bruggemann (San Francisco), Amir Takhmar (Mountain View, Calif.) and Pengzhi Tian (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data-driven techniques are described herein for determining collision probabilities and/or predicted collision rates associated with vehicle control components used in autonomous vehicles. A performance modeling system may determine a first vehicle-distance-to-object distribution, based on log data captured in rea...