Technology for situational modification of autonomous vehicle operation
AssigneeState Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
InventorsScott T. Christensen, Gregory L. Hayward
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Abstract
Systems and methods for situational modification of autonomous vehicle operation are disclosed. According to aspects, a computing device may detect the occurrence of an emergency event and may determine a current operation of an autonomous vehicle that may be associated with the emergency event. The computing device may determine a modification to operation of the autonomous vehicle, where the modification may represent a violation of a roadway regulation that may enable effective handling of the emergency event. The computing device may generate a set of instructions for the autonomous vehicle to execute to cause the autonomous vehicle to undertake the operation modification.
Claims19
A computer-implemented method of facilitating operation of an autonomous vehicle, the method comprising:
- detecting occurrence of an emergency event at an emergency location;
- and
- in response to detecting the occurrence of the emergency event:
- obtaining (i) a current location of the autonomous vehicle and (ii) a current operation of the autonomous vehicle,
- determining a vehicle operation regulation associated with the current location of the autonomous vehicle,
- determining, based on the current operation of the autonomous vehicle and the emergency location of the emergency event, a vehicle operation modification to direct the autonomous vehicle to operate in violation of the vehicle operation regulation to enable an emergency vehicle to reach the emergency location,
- generating, by a computer processor based on the vehicle operation modification, a set of vehicle control instructions for the autonomous vehicle, and
- providing the set of vehicle control instructions to an on-board computing device installed in the autonomous vehicle, wherein the on-board computing device (i) executes the set of vehicle control instructions to cause the autonomous vehicle to violate the vehicle operation regulation to enable the emergency vehicle to reach the emergency location, and (ii) presents, in a user interface of the on-board computing device, an indication of the vehicle operation modification that directs the autonomous vehicle to operate in violation of the vehicle operation regulation.
A system for facilitating operation of an autonomous vehicle, comprising:
- a transceiver configured to communicate with the autonomous vehicle via at least one network connection;
- a memory storing a set of computer-executable instructions;
- and
- a processor interfacing with the transceiver and the memory, and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to cause the processor to:
- detect occurrence of an emergency event at an emergency location, and
- in response to detecting the occurrence of the emergency event:
- obtain (i) a current location of the autonomous vehicle and (ii) a current operation of the autonomous vehicle,
- determine a vehicle operation regulation associated with the current location of the autonomous vehicle,
- determine, based on the current operation of the autonomous vehicle and the emergency location of the emergency event, a vehicle operation modification to direct the autonomous vehicle to operate in violation of the vehicle operation regulation to enable an emergency vehicle to reach the emergency location,
- generate, based on the vehicle operation modification, a set of vehicle control instructions for the autonomous vehicle, and
- provide the set of vehicle control instructions to an on-board computing device installed in the autonomous vehicle via the transceiver, wherein the on-board computing device (i) executes the set of vehicle control instructions to cause the autonomous vehicle to violate the vehicle operation regulation to enable the emergency vehicle to reach the emergency location, and (ii) presents, in a user interface of the on-board computing device, an indication of the vehicle operation modification that directs the autonomous vehicle to operate in violation of the vehicle operation regulation.
A computer-implemented method in an autonomous vehicle of facilitating operation of the autonomous vehicle, the method comprising:
- detecting occurrence of an emergency event at an emergency location;
- and
- in response to detecting the occurrence of the emergency event:
- obtaining (i) a current location of the autonomous vehicle and (ii) a current operation of the autonomous vehicle,
- determining a vehicle operation regulation associated with the current location of the autonomous vehicle,
- determining, based on the current operation of the autonomous vehicle and the emergency location of the emergency event, a vehicle operation modification to direct the autonomous vehicle to operate in violation of the vehicle operation regulation to enable an emergency vehicle to reach the emergency location,
- generating, by a computer processor based on the vehicle operation modification, a set of vehicle control instructions for the autonomous vehicle,
- executing, by an on-board computing device installed in the autonomous vehicle, the set of vehicle control instructions to cause the autonomous vehicle to violate the vehicle operation regulation to enable the emergency vehicle to reach the emergency location, and
- presenting, in a user interface of the on-board computing device, an indication of the vehicle operation modification that directs the autonomous vehicle to operate in violation of the vehicle operation regulation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.