US 11,807,259 B2
Hardware systems for an autonomous vehicle
Eric Jeffrey Wei, Santa Clara, CA (US); Niels Frommann, Santa Clara, CA (US); James Nicholas Vines, San Francisco, CA (US); Jonathan Beck, Mountain View, CA (US); and An An (Tom) Chu, San Mateo, CA (US)
Assigned to Nuro, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Nuro, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/537,307.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/127,704, filed on Dec. 18, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/119,341, filed on Nov. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0169270 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 50/12 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 50/02 (2012.01); B60W 50/035 (2012.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 50/02 (2013.01) [B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); B60W 50/035 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2050/0002 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle capable of operating autonomously or semi-autonomously, the vehicle comprising: a sensor data aggregator that includes a first computing assembly and a second computing assembly, the first computing assembly configured to receive and to process a first set of sensor data from a first set of sensors, the second computing assembly configured to receive and to process a second set of sensor data from a second set of sensors, the first set of sensors including a short range radar and a long range lidar, the second set of sensors including a long range radar and a short range lidar; and a computing system configured to (i) receive the first and second sets of sensor data processed by the sensor data aggregator and (ii) implement a set of primary autonomy functionalities of the vehicle based on the first and second sets of sensor data, wherein the sensor data aggregator is configured to implement a set of backup autonomy functionalities of the vehicle.