ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,878, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).
"Wheel torque estimation for autonomous driving" was invented by Jingxuan Liu (San Diego), Arda Kurt (San Diego) and Junbo Jing (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for estimating wheel torque in an autonomous vehicle include a method for controlling a vehicle includes using a dual filter framework to generate an updated estimate of a wheel torque, and controlling, based on the updated estimate of the wheel torque, the vehicle. A first filter of the dual filter framework is configured to generate a blended estimate of the wheel torque ...