Road quality based routing
AssigneeGM Cruise Holdings LLC
InventorStephanie Olivia Engle
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to receive road quality data from at least one vehicle in a fleet of vehicles and determine a route for the at least one vehicle in the fleet of vehicles. The road quality data may be gathered by at least one sensor configured to detect autonomous vehicle movements and orientation. The route may avoid a segment of road that is associated with poor road quality data.
Claims18
An autonomous vehicle comprising:
- a communication system configured to communicate with a remote computing device;
- at least one sensor configured to detect autonomous vehicle movements and orientation;
- and
- an internal computing system configured to receive outputs from the at least one sensor, determine road quality data based on the outputs from the at least one sensor, and determine a route for the autonomous vehicle that avoids a segment of a road that is associated with poor road quality data,
- wherein the determination of the route is based on a projected quantification of damage to the autonomous vehicle traversing the segment of the road associated with the poor road quality data, the projected quantification of the damage calculated by a processor that accesses, via the communication system, historical road quality data and historical maintenance data stored in the remote computing device to determine the projected quantification of the damage;
- and
- wherein the internal computing system is further configured to be in communication with the communication system to send the road quality data to the remote computing device.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to:
- receive road quality data from at least one vehicle in a fleet of vehicles, wherein the road quality data is gathered at least one sensor on the at least one vehicle configured to detect vehicle movements and orientation;
- calculate a projected quantification of damage to the at least one vehicle traversing a segment of a road associated with poor road quality data based on historical road quality data and historical maintenance data stored in a remote computing device;
- and
- determine a route for the at least one vehicle in the fleet of vehicles that avoids the segment of the road that is associated with the poor road quality data based on the projected quantification of the damage to the at least one vehicle.
A method comprising:
- receiving road quality data from at least one vehicle in a fleet of vehicles, wherein the road quality data is gathered at least one sensor on the at least one vehicle configured to detect vehicle movements and orientation;
- calculating a projected quantification of damage to the at least one vehicle traversing a segment of a road associated with poor road quality data based on historical road quality data and historical maintenance data stored in a remote computing device;
- and
- determining a route for the at least one vehicle that avoids the segment of the road that is associated with the poor road quality data based on the projected quantification of the damage to the at least one vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.