US 12,482,353 B1
Emergency vehicle detection for autonomous vehicle
Brian Baumgartner, San Francisco, CA (US); Nemanja Djuric, Pittsburgh, PA (US); and Niels Joubert, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to Aurora Operations, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Filed by Aurora Operations, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/390,920.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/434,343, filed on Dec. 21, 2022.
Int. Cl. G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G08G 1/017 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/096725 (2013.01) [B60W 60/0025 (2020.02); G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); G08G 1/0175 (2013.01); G08G 1/096775 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2554/402 (2020.02); B60W 2554/404 (2020.02); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An autonomous vehicle control system comprising one or more processors configured to operate an autonomous vehicle in an environment by:
detecting, based on a first set of sensor data captured by one or more sensors disposed on the autonomous vehicle, a presence of an emergency vehicle in the environment of the autonomous vehicle;
in response to detecting the presence of the emergency vehicle in the environment of the autonomous vehicle, communicating with a remote teleassist system to initiate a teleassist session with the remote teleassist system; and
in response to the teleassist session being initiated:
transmitting a second set of sensor data captured by the one or more sensors to the remote teleassist system, and
receiving remote teleassist operator input relating to the emergency vehicle, wherein the remote teleassist operator input is based on one or more conditions of the emergency vehicle determined from the second set of sensor data transmitted to the remote teleassist system.