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US 10,870,433 B2Granted
Emergency route planning system
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsBrendan Diamond, Erik J. Christen, Kevin James Rhodes
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a controller, programmed to responsive to detecting, via a vehicle sensor, an obstacle blocking a route on which the vehicle is traversing, report the obstacle and blockage to a server via a wireless connection; responsive to receiving a command from the server instructing to perform an exploratory maneuver to remove the obstacle from the route, execute the command via an autonomous driving controller; and report an implementation result of the exploratory maneuver to the server.
Claims16
A vehicle, comprising:
- a controller, programmed to
- responsive to detecting, via a vehicle sensor, an obstacle blocking a route on which the vehicle is traversing, report the obstacle and blockage to a server via a wireless connection,
- responsive to receiving a first command from the server instructing to perform an exploratory maneuver to remove the obstacle from the route, verify the vehicle is unoccupied, and execute the first command via an autonomous driving controller,
- report an exploratory maneuver result indicative of a failure to remove the obstacle from the route to the server,
- responsive to receiving a second command from the server instructing to explore an off-roading option bypassing the obstacle, execute the second command via the autonomous driving controller, and
- report an off-roading result indicative of a successful traversing of the off-roading option to the server.
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A vehicle, comprising:
- a controller, programmed to
- responsive to detecting a predefined road condition on a route via a vehicle sensor, report the road condition to a server,
- responsive to receiving a first command from a server instructing to perform an exploratory maneuver to overcome the road condition, verify the vehicle is unoccupied, and execute the first command, and
- report an exploratory maneuver result indicative of a failure to overcome the obstacle from the route to the server,
- responsive to receiving a second command from the server instructing to explore an off-roading option bypassing the obstacle, execute the second command, and
- report an off-roading result indicative of a successful traversing of the off-roading option to the server,
- wherein the road condition includes at least one of:
- a road blockage, a flood, or a fire.
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A cloud server, comprising:
- a processor, programmed to
- responsive to receiving a road condition reported by a vehicle, analyze the road condition based on data collected via sensors of the vehicle;
- responsive to confirming the vehicle is unable to overcome the road condition, flag the road condition in a database, and load map data including geographic information nearby the location of the road condition;
- responsive to verifying a possible off-roading option bypassing the road condition, instruct the vehicle to explore the off-roading option;
- and
- responsive to receiving data from the vehicle indicative of the vehicle successfully traversed the off-roading option, mark the off-roading option as an alternative route for further reference.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.