Intel Corporation
Multimodal sensing in autonomous driving vehicles with self-healing capabilities

Abstract:

An apparatus for autonomous vehicles includes a perception pipeline having independent classification processes operating in parallel to respectively identify objects based on sensor data flows from multiple ones of a plurality of sensors. The apparatus also includes a sensor monitoring stage to operate in parallel with the perception pipeline and to use the sensor data flows to estimate and track a confidence level of each of the plurality of different sensors, and nullify a deficient sensor when the confidence level associated with the deficient sensor fails to meet a confidence threshold.