US 10,883,832 B2Granted

Capacity based vehicle operation

AssigneeUatc, LLC

InventorSisil Mehta

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Abstract

Systems, methods, and vehicles for capacity based vehicle operation are provided. For example, a method can include receiving, by a computing system including one or more computing devices, object data based in part on one or more states of one or more objects. Based in part on the object data, the computing system can determine one or more features of the one or more objects. Based on a comparison of the one or more features of the one or more objects to a vehicle capacity criterion, the one or more objects that satisfy the vehicle capacity criterion can be determined. The vehicle capacity criterion can be based in part on a carrying capacity of an autonomous vehicle. In response to the one or more objects satisfying the vehicle capacity criterion, one or more control systems associated with operation of the autonomous vehicle can be activated by the computing system.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method of operating an autonomous vehicle, the computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, object data based in part on one or more states of one or more objects;
determining, by the computing system, based in part on the object data, one or more features of the one or more objects, wherein the one or more features comprise a mass of each of the one or more objects;
receiving, by the computing system, capacity adjustment data comprising weather conditions along a route for the autonomous vehicle to travel;
adjusting, by the computing system, one or more vehicle capacity criteria based on the capacity adjustment data, wherein the one or more vehicle capacity criteria comprise a maximum mass the vehicle is allowed to carry;
determining, by the computing system, based in part on the mass of each of the one or more objects, whether the one or more objects satisfy the one or more vehicle capacity criteria;
and
responsive to the one or more objects satisfying the one or more vehicle capacity criteria, activating, by the computing system, one or more control systems associated with operation of the autonomous vehicle.

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One or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-readable instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving object data based in part on one or more states of one or more objects;
determining, based in part on the object data, one or more features of the one or more objects, wherein the one or more features comprise a mass of each of the one or more objects;
receiving capacity adjustment data comprising weather conditions along a route for the autonomous vehicle to travel;
adjusting one or more vehicle capacity criteria based on the capacity adjustment data, wherein the one or more vehicle capacity criteria comprise a maximum mass the vehicle is allowed to carry;
determining, based in part on the mass of each of the one or more objects, whether the one or more objects satisfy the one or more vehicle capacity criteria;
and
responsive to the one or more objects satisfying the one or more vehicle capacity criteria, activating one or more control systems associated with operation of the autonomous vehicle.

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An autonomous vehicle comprising:

one or more processors;
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving object data based in part on one or more states of one or more objects;
determining, based in part on the object data, one or more features of the one or more objects, wherein the one or more features comprise a mass of each of the one or more objects;
receiving capacity adjustment data comprising weather conditions along a route for the autonomous vehicle to travel;
adjusting one or more vehicle capacity criteria based on the capacity adjustment data, wherein the one or more vehicle capacity criteria comprise a maximum mass the vehicle is allowed to carry;
determining, based in part on the mass of each of the one or more objects, whether the one or more objects satisfy the one or more vehicle capacity criteria;
and
responsive to the one or more objects satisfying the one or more vehicle capacity criteria, activating one or more control systems associated with operation of the autonomous vehicle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/727,332Filed 26 Dec 2019 · continuation
Priority: 19 Jul 2017
Published: US 2020/0132469 A130 Apr 2020
Granted: 5 Jan 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G01C 21/20
Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C19/00: instruments for performing navigational calculations
G05D 1/0027
Associated with a remote control arrangement: involving a plurality of vehicles, e.g. fleet or convoy travelling
G06Q 10/047
Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem":…
G06Q 10/06312
Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations: adjustment or analysis of established resource…