Patents by Inventor Chuchu Fan

Chuchu Fan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240087136
    Abstract: A computer that includes a processor and a memory can determine a final trajectory for a vehicle by determining a candidate trajectory of a first object based on a detected second object. The candidate trajectory can be input to a reachable polyhedral marching processor to determine dynamic occupancy polyhedrals based on a shape of the candidate trajectory. A reachable tube can be determined based on combining the dynamic occupancy polyhedrals and the final trajectory can be determined based on the reachable tube avoiding the detected second object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Technology Licensing Office
    Inventors: Md Tawhid Bin Waez, Yue Meng, Zeng Qiu, Chuchu Fan
  • Patent number: 10061876
    Abstract: A system and methods store initial states and unsafe states (e.g., safety requirements) of a non-linear model of a control system that interacts with a physical system. The system performs simulations of the non-linear model using a set of sampled initial states, to first generate trajectories (numerical approximations of actual behaviors) over bounded time. The system further determines, for respective pairs of neighboring trajectories: an over-approximation of reachable states as an upper bound of a distance between a pair of neighboring trajectories; a linear over-approximation of the reachable states as piece-wise linear segments over a plurality of time intervals; and whether the linear over-approximation overlaps in any of the piece-wise linear segments with the unsafe states, to verify the non-linear model of the control system is safe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Sayan Mitra, Chuchu Fan, Zhenqi Huang
  • Publication number: 20160179999
    Abstract: A system and methods store initial states and unsafe states (e.g., safety requirements) of a non-linear model of a control system that interacts with a physical system. The system performs simulations of the non-linear model using a set of sampled initial states, to first generate trajectories (numerical approximations of actual behaviors) over bounded time. The system further determines, for respective pairs of neighboring trajectories: an over-approximation of reachable states as an upper bound of a distance between a pair of neighboring trajectories; a linear over-approximation of the reachable states as piece-wise linear segments over a plurality of time intervals; and whether the linear over-approximation overlaps in any of the piece-wise linear segments with the unsafe states, to verify the non-linear model of the control system is safe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Sayan Mitra, Chuchu Fan, Zhenqi Huang