US 11,884,302 B2
Social behavior for autonomous vehicles
Daniela Rus, Weston, MA (US); Sertac Karaman, Cambridge, MA (US); Javier Alonso Mora, Cambridge, MA (US); Alyssa Pierson, Somerville, MA (US); and Wilko Schwarting, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/099,035.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/936,033, filed on Nov. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0146964 A1, May 20, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 60/00272 (2020.02) [B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 60/0013 (2020.02); B60W 60/0015 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4029 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4044 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4046 (2020.02)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating an autonomous vehicle in the presence of one or more mobile entities, the method comprising:
monitoring interactions between the one or more mobile entities and/or between the autonomous vehicle and the one or more mobile entities, including for each mobile entity of the one or more mobile entities, estimating a corresponding social behavior score for said entity based at least in part on the monitored interactions;
planning an operation of the autonomous vehicle using the estimated social behavior score for each of the one or more mobile entities; and
causing the autonomous vehicle to operate according to the planned operation,
wherein planning the operation of the autonomous vehicle includes performing a computer-implemented multi-agent game-theoretically based decision process
wherein estimating the social behavior score comprises estimating a Social Value Orientation (SVO).