US 12,264,922 B2
Pick-up/drop-off zone tracking system
Konrad Julian Niemiec, Mountain View, CA (US); Jay A. Chen, San Francisco, CA (US); Shenglong Gao, San Francisco, CA (US); and Mark Yen, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/947,028.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/881,178, filed on Jul. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0033410 A1, Feb. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G08G 1/0968 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3438 (2013.01) [B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G01C 21/3605 (2013.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G08G 1/096811 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
at least one processor of a machine; and
a memory storing instructions that cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
comparing operational constraints associated with physical geometry of a plurality of pick- up/drop off zones (PDZs) at a specified location to operational capabilities comprising one or more modes of movement of an autonomous vehicle (AV) to identify a set of PDZs of the plurality of PDZs that the AV is capable of using at the specified location based on an association between one or more PDZ objects in a data store and mode of movement information associated with the AV, each of the one or more PDZ objects comprising data describing a PDZ;
transmitting at least one PDZ identifier corresponding to the set of PDZs;
determining that a first PDZ in the set of PDZs is associated with a first likelihood of being available and that a second PDZ in the set of PDZs is associated with a second likelihood of being available;
ranking the set of PDZs based on a distance of a determined route of the AV to each PDZ in the set of PDZs, the first likelihood of being available, and the second likelihood of being available;
determining that the second likelihood of being available associated with the second PDZ is lower than the first likelihood of being available associated with the first PDZ;
selecting, as an individual PDZ, the second PDZ at least in part in response to determining that the second likelihood of being available is lower than the first likelihood of being available; and
autonomously utilizing one or more sensors of the AV to autonomously navigate the AV along a route to the individual PDZ of the set of PDZs based on the ranked set of PDZs.