Vehicle sensor system and method of use

Abstract

A system and method for collecting and processing sensor data for facilitating and/or enabling autonomous, semi-autonomous, and remote operation of a vehicle, including: collecting surroundings at one or more sensors, and determining properties of the surroundings of the vehicle and/or the behavior of the vehicle based on the surroundings data at a computing system.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system for facilitating autonomous operation of a vehicle, the system comprising:
 a set of multiple sensors arranged onboard the vehicle, wherein the set of multiple sensors comprises:
 a first sensor configured to output a first sensor stream; and 
 a second sensor configured to output a second sensor stream; 
   a computing subsystem arranged at least partially onboard the vehicle, the computing subsystem comprising:
 a first processing subsystem configured to process at least one of the first and second sensor streams, wherein the first processing subsystem outputs a first localization dataset; 
 a second processing subsystem configured to process at least one of the first and second sensor streams, wherein the second processing subsystem outputs a second localization dataset; and 
 a scoring module configured to determine a confidence metric associated with the usability of at least one of the first and second sensor streams based on the first and second localization datasets, wherein the onboard computing system performs a control action based on the confidence metric.