Systems and methods for maintaining vehicle state information

A system for monitoring a fleet of self-driving vehicles, comprising:

• one or more self-driving vehicles each having at least one sensor for collecting current state information;
• a fleet-management system in communication with the one or more self-driving vehicles;
• one or more user devices in communication with the fleet-management system;
• and
• a non-transient computer-readable media for storing reference data in communication with the fleet-management system;
• wherein each of the one or more self-driving vehicles is configured to collect the current state information and transmit the current state information to the fleet-management system;
• wherein the fleet-management system is configured to:
• receive the reference data from the non-transient computer-readable media, wherein the reference data is based on previously-acquired state information;
• receive the current state information from a self-driving vehicle of the one or more self-driving vehicles;
• compare the current state information with the reference data;
• based on the comparing, determine whether outlier data exists in the current state information;
• and
• in response to determining that no outlier data exists in the current state information, updating the reference data based on the current state information;
• otherwise in response to determining that outlier data does exist:
• determine at least one of a type or a severity of the outlier data;
• associate the determined at least one of type or severity of the outlier data to an escalation level, wherein the escalation level is associated with one or more user roles;
• identify one or more user devices associated with user roles;
• generate an alert based on the outlier data;
• and
• transmit a notification to the one or more user devices based on the alert.

A method for monitoring a fleet of self-driving vehicles, comprising:

• transmitting a respective mission to at least one self-driving vehicle of the fleet using a fleet-management system;
• executing the respective mission by autonomously navigating the at least one self-driving vehicle according to the respective mission;
• collecting current state information from the at least one self-driving vehicle based on the executing the respective mission;
• determining current fleet-performance metric information based on the current state information;
• comparing the current fleet-performance metric information with reference data, wherein the reference data is based on previously-acquired state information;
• based on the comparing, determining whether outlier data exists in the current fleet-performance metric information;
• in response to determining that no outlier data exists in the current fleet-performance metric information, updating the reference data based on current fleet-performance metric information;
• otherwise in response to determining that outlier data exists:
• determining at least one of a type or a severity of the outlier data;
• associating the at least one of type or severity of the outlier data to an escalation level, wherein the escalation level is associated with one or more user roles;
• identifying one or more user devices associated with user roles;
• and
• generating an alert based on the outlier data;
• and
• transmitting a notification to the one or more user device based on the alert.