Autonomous rail or off rail vehicle movement and system among a group of vehicles
AssigneeGlydways Inc.
InventorVinod Khosla
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Abstract
In an example, the autonomous vehicle (“AV”) can be configured among the other vehicles and railway to communicate with a rider on a peer to peer basis to pick up the rider on demand from a location on a track, like a railway, tram or other track, rather than the rider being held hostage to a fixed railway schedule. The rider can have an application on his/her cell phone, which tracks each of the AVs, and contact them using the application on the cell phone. In an example, the AV is configured for both on-track and off track operation with different operating parameters for on-track and off track, including speed, degree of autonomy, sensors used etc.
Claims19
A method for moving an autonomous vehicle among a plurality of vehicles, the method comprising:
- initiating movement of the autonomous vehicle, the autonomous vehicle comprising a sensor array system configured spatially on the autonomous vehicle (AV), the sensor array system comprising:
- a plurality of active sensor systems;
- at least one processor coupled to the sensor array system;
- a memory device coupled to the at least one processor;
- an instruction stored on the memory device, the instruction when executed by the at least one processor causes the sensor array system to:
- as the AV travels a current route, dynamically detect a reflectance of an event from a plurality of events, the event being selected from an anomaly, a stationary feature, or a location of at least one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles;
- use data from the reflectance of the event to adjust a movement of the AV in relationship to the event;
- and
- monitor the AV using a central database in real time, while collecting information associated with at least one other AV in the central database.
A method for moving an autonomous vehicle among a plurality of vehicles, the method comprising:
- initiating movement of the autonomous vehicle, the autonomous vehicle comprising a sensor array system configured spatially on the autonomous vehicle (AV), the sensor array system comprising:
- a plurality of active sensor systems;
- at least one processor coupled to the sensor array system;
- a memory device coupled to the at least one processor;
- and
- an instruction stored on the memory device, the instruction when executed by the at least one processor causes the sensor array system to:
- as the AV travels a current route, dynamically detect a reflectance of an event from a plurality of events, the event being selected from an anomaly, a stationary feature, or a location of at least one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles;
- and
- using data from the reflectance of the event, adjust the movement of the AV in relationship to the event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.