ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,410, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, N.Y.).
"Task-motion planning for safe and efficient urban driving" was invented by Shiqi Zhang (Vestal, N.Y.) and Yan Ding (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous vehicles plan at a task level to compute a sequence of symbolic actions to fulfill service requests, where efficiency is the main concern. The vehicle computes continuous trajectories to perform actions at the motion level, where safety is important. Task-motion planning in autonomous driving faces the problem of maximizing task-level efficiency whil...