US 12,065,156 B2
Failover system for autonomous vehicles
Volkmar Uhlig, Cupertino, CA (US); John Hayes, Mountain View, CA (US); and Aaron Carroll, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to GHOST AUTONOMY INC., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by GHOST AUTONOMY INC., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/706,749.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/192,369, filed on May 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0371607 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 50/02 (2012.01); B60W 50/029 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 50/029 (2013.01) [B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/0053 (2020.02); B60W 2050/0292 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for a failover system for autonomous vehicles, comprising:
detecting an error associated with a hardware resource of a first autonomous driving system of the autonomous vehicle;
performing a failover from the first autonomous driving system to a second autonomous driving system comprising fewer hardware resources relative to the first autonomous driving system, wherein performing the failover causes control operations generated by the second autonomous driving system to be applied to the autonomous vehicle instead of control operations generated by the first autonomous driving system; and
reconfigure one or more other hardware resources of the first autonomous driving system not associated with the error into a redundant autonomous driving system.