Patents by Inventor Yunpeng Pan

Yunpeng Pan 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: 20250115277
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for autonomous vehicles to determine driving paths and associated trajectories through unstructured or off-route driving environments. When an object is detected within a driving environment, a vehicle may determine a cost-based side association for the object. Various costs may be used in different examples, including costs based on a cost plot and/or motion primitives that may vary for terminal and non-terminal desired destinations (or ending vehicle states). Using tree searches to determine estimated candidate costs, the autonomous vehicle may compare right-side and left-side driving path costs around the object to determine a side association for the object. Based on the side association, the autonomous vehicle may determine an updated planning corridor and/or a trajectory to control the vehicle from a current state to a desired ending vehicle state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Joseph Funke, Steven Cheng Qian, Kazuhide Okamoto, Jacob Patrick Thalman, Sriram Narayanan, Yunpeng Pan
  • Patent number: 12208819
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for autonomous vehicles to determine driving paths and associated trajectories through unstructured or off-route driving environments. When an object is detected within a driving environment, a vehicle may determine a cost-based side association for the object. Various costs may be used in different examples, including costs based on a cost plot and/or motion primitives that may vary for terminal and non-terminal desired destinations (or ending vehicle states). Using tree searches to determine estimated candidate costs, the autonomous vehicle may compare right-side and left-side driving path costs around the object to determine a side association for the object. Based on the side association, the autonomous vehicle may determine an updated planning corridor and/or a trajectory to control the vehicle from a current state to a desired ending vehicle state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Funke, Steven Cheng Qian, Kazuhide Okamoto, Jacob Patrick Thalman, Sriram Narayanan, Yunpeng Pan
  • Patent number: 12187324
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a vehicle trajectory that causes a vehicle to navigate in an environment relative to one or more objects are described herein. For example, the techniques may include a computing device determining a decision tree having nodes to represent different object intents and/or nodes to represent vehicle actions at a future time. A tree search algorithm can search the decision tree to evaluate potential interactions between the vehicle and the one or more objects over a time period, and output a vehicle trajectory for the vehicle. The vehicle trajectory can be sent to a vehicle computing device for consideration during vehicle planning, which may include simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Caldwell, Xianan Huang, Joseph Lorenzetti, Yunpeng Pan, Ke Sun, Linjun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12077181
    Abstract: Controlling motion of an autonomous vehicle may comprise determining a state space representation of the environment associated with the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on sensor data. The autonomous vehicle may parameterize the state space according to arc length and lateral distance from a route reference. The autonomous vehicle may determine a state in the state space upon which to base trajectory generation (e.g., via a tree search, via a state space sampling technique based on cost) and may determine a set of control instructions (i.e., a trajectory) that would bring the autonomous vehicle to the arc length and lateral distance specified by the state. Determining the state for generating the trajectory may be based on a heuristic for determining approximately where the trajectory would bring the vehicle, since the arc length parameterized state space doesn't include an indication of location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Michael Costantino, Marin Kobilarov, Mark Jonathon McClelland, Yunpeng Pan
  • Patent number: 12060060
    Abstract: The techniques discussed herein may comprise an autonomous vehicle guidance system that generates a group of candidate trajectories based at least in part on sensor data. This group of candidate trajectories is clustered into two or more clusters and one or more representative trajectories may be determined for each cluster. The representative trajectory may be one of the trajectories in the cluster or a separately determined trajectory that represents the trajectories in a cluster, such as a mean or median trajectory. The representative trajectory may be used to predict how a dynamic object would react to the representative trajectory. This prediction may be used to determine potentially different costs associated with the different trajectories of the cluster with which the representative trajectory is associated. These costs may include costs to induce following behavior by the autonomous vehicle and/or cost(s) associated with conditionally available roadway portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Michael Costantino, Rasmus Fonseca, Liam Gallagher, Marin Kobilarov, Mark Jonathon McClelland, Yunpeng Pan
  • Publication number: 20240092398
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a vehicle trajectory that causes a vehicle to navigate in an environment relative to one or more objects are described herein. For example, the techniques may include a computing device determining a decision tree having nodes to represent different object intents and/or nodes to represent vehicle actions at a future time. A tree search algorithm can search the decision tree to evaluate potential interactions between the vehicle and the one or more objects over a time period, and output a vehicle trajectory for the vehicle. The vehicle trajectory can be sent to a vehicle computing device for consideration during vehicle planning, which may include simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Timothy Caldwell, Xianan Huang, Joseph Lorenzetti, Yunpeng Pan, Ke Sun, Linjun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210275391
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for controlling a compression unit associated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are described herein. For example, a medical system may include a compression unit configured to apply pressure to a torso region of a patient. The compression unit may be configured to move within space according to at least one degree of freedom. The medical system may further include processing circuitry configured to receive one or more sets of data representative of one or more patient parameters of the patient. Additionally, the medical system may generate, using a deep learning model, an output data set representing a predicted trajectory of at least one patient parameter of the one or more patient parameters, determine a set of control parameters, and control the compression unit to apply the pressure to the torso region of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Demetris Yannopoulos, Evangelos Theodorou, Manan Gandhi, Matthew Olson, Pierre Sebastian, Yunpeng Pan