Patent 11488395 was granted and assigned to Toyota Research Institute on November, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Systems and methods for vehicular navigation are disclosed herein. One embodiment receives, from one or more sensors, sensor data pertaining to a roadway section that is proximate to a vehicle; generates segmented sensor data to identify, in the roadway section, one or more boundary lines of one or more lanes; determines, from the sensor data, a direction of travel associated with at least one of the one or more lanes; applies a graphical model to the segmented sensor data to generate an output that includes a set of discrete points corresponding to the one or more boundary lines; generates an objective map of the roadway section from the set of discrete points; and uses the objective map to assist the vehicle in navigating the roadway section.