Systems and methods for providing vehicle cognition

This invention describes a way for self-driving vehicles to understand their surroundings and create detailed maps. Vehicles use their cameras to scan the environment, converting what they see into unique digital "signatures" for specific locations, allowing them to pinpoint their exact position by comparing these to a central database. Once localized, a group of vehicles collaboratively identifies and characterizes objects, updating a shared map, with new information sent to a central server for distribution back to the swarm. The claims narrow the localization to voxel data and require wireless data transmission during operation.