ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,887, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).
"Collision aware path planning systems and methods" was invented by Ryan Chilton (Blacksburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for path planning for autonomous vehicles err on the side of a safer road position and safer type of collision if one were to occur. An autonomous vehicle perception module detects target objects within a region of interest (ROI). An autonomous vehicle processor estimates relative velocity between the ego vehicle and target objects, and estimates mass of target objects. Collision-aware path planning calculates a ...