US 10,705,539 B2 · Tele-operation of autonomous cars to negotiate problem situations

Abstract

Methods and systems for providing remote support and negotiating problem situations of autonomous operation of vehicles based on signal states and vehicle information are described. The disclosed technology receives state data for the vehicles by an apparatus such as a remote vehicle support apparatus. The state data indicates a respective current state for the vehicles. The vehicles are each assigned to respective remote vehicle support queues based on the respective state data. An indication that one of the vehicles is requesting remote support is received by the remote vehicle support apparatus. In response to a determination that a change in the state data indicates that autonomous operation of the one of the vehicles is operating outside of defined parameter values, the remote support is provided to the one of the vehicles through a communications link by transmitting instruction data to modify the autonomous operation of the one of the vehicles.

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Dependent claims

A system for remote support of autonomous operation of vehicles, the system comprising:

a memory;
and
a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to:
receive state data for the vehicles, the state data including a current state of the vehicles;
assign the vehicles to remote vehicle support queues based on the state data;
generate a map display including a geographic map of respective locations of a set of the vehicles that are assigned to the remote vehicle support queues;
generate a vehicle state display adjacent to the map display, the vehicle state display including the remote vehicle support queues, vehicle manager indicators corresponding to each respective remote vehicle support queue, and the state data for the set of vehicles as respective indicators;
receive an indication that a vehicle of the vehicles is requesting remote support;
and
in response to a determination that a change in the state data indicates that autonomous operation of the vehicle is operating outside of defined parameter values, transmit instruction data to the vehicle to modify the autonomous operation of the vehicle.

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A method for providing remote support of autonomous operation of vehicles, the method comprising:

receiving, by a remote vehicle support apparatus, state data for the vehicles, the state data including a current state of the vehicles;
assigning, by the remote vehicle support apparatus, the vehicles to remote vehicle support queues based on the state data;
generating, by the remote vehicle support apparatus, a map display including a geographic map of respective locations of a set of the vehicles that are assigned to the remote vehicle support queues;
generating, by the remote vehicle support apparatus, a vehicle state display adjacent to the map display, the vehicle state display including the remote vehicle support queues, vehicle manager indicators corresponding to each respective remote vehicle support queue, and the state data for the set of vehicles as respective indicators;
receiving, by the remote vehicle support apparatus, an indication that a vehicle of the vehicles is requesting remote support;
and
in response to a determination that a change in the state data indicates that autonomous operation of the vehicle is operating outside of defined parameter values, transmitting, by the remote vehicle support apparatus, instruction data to the vehicle to modify the autonomous operation of the vehicle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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