Remote assist feedback system for autonomous vehicles
AssigneeUatc, LLC
InventorsAlex Castro, Molly Nix, Scott Poeppel, Sean Chin, Eric Hanson, Dennis Zhao
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Abstract
An interaction feedback system for passengers of an autonomous vehicle (AV) can detect a remote assist trigger, corresponding to a remote assist event, from a control system of the AV. The feedback system can then initiate a feedback mode using one or more feedback devices to enable interaction between one or more passengers of the AV and a remote operator based on detecting the remote assist trigger from the AV control system.
Claims20
A passenger feedback system for an autonomous vehicle (AV), comprising:
- one or more feedback devices to output remote assist feedback for one or more passengers of the AV;
- and
- a feedback controller comprising one or more processing resources executing instructions that cause the feedback controller to:
- detect a remote assist trigger, corresponding to a remote assist event, from a control system of the AV;
- and
- based on detecting the remote assist trigger, transition from a normal operational mode to a feedback mode using the one or more feedback devices to enable two-way interaction between the one or more passengers and a remote operator, wherein the remote operator can transmit control commands to the AV while in feedback mode and the two-way interaction includes voice communication;
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- a control interface connecting the feedback controller to the control system of the AV.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of an autonomous vehicle (AV), cause the one or more processors to:
- detect a remote assist trigger, corresponding to a remote assist event, from a control system of the AV;
- and
- based on detecting the remote assist trigger, transition from a normal operational mode to a feedback mode using one or more feedback devices to enable two-way interaction between one or more passengers of the AV and a remote operator, wherein the remote operator can transmit control commands to the AV while in feedback mode and the two-way interaction includes voice communication.
A method of providing feedback to passengers of an autonomous vehicle (AV), then method being performed by one or more processors of the AV and comprising:
- detecting a remote assist trigger, corresponding to a remote assist event, from a control system of the AV;
- and
- based on detecting the remote assist trigger, transitioning from a normal operational mode to a feedback mode using one or more feedback devices to enable two-way interaction between one or more passengers of the AV and a remote operator, wherein the remote operator can transmit control commands to the AV while in feedback mode and the two-way interaction includes voice communication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.