System and method for securing delivery using an autonomous vehicle

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for causing a processing circuitry to perform a process, the process comprising:

• receiving location coordinates of a final destination to navigate to;
• determining visual features of a captured image of a current location of the autonomous vehicle, the captured image generated by an image sensor communicatively coupled with the autonomous vehicle, wherein the visual features are a subset of environmental features within the captured image;
• retrieving location coordinates of the current location of the autonomous vehicle from a positioning sensor communicatively coupled with the autonomous vehicle;
• matching the location coordinates of the final destination and the current location;
• matching the visual features of the captured image of the current location to reference visual features of a reference image associated with the location coordinates of the current location, wherein reference image data includes a map associated with the location coordinates, wherein the map includes a plurality of sub-sections and a plurality of the reference visual features, wherein each reference visual feature is a subset of environmental features in the respective reference image and is stored as metadata in the map associated with a respective sub-section of the map;
• matching a verification code present within the captured image to a reference verification code, where the verification code is a two-dimensional visual code previously associated with the final destination;
• determining if the current location is the final destination based on the matching between the visual features of the captured image with the reference image;
• and
• rerouting the autonomous vehicle from the current location to a new destination when the current location is determined to be different than the final destination, wherein the final destination is a first final destination, wherein the two-dimensional visual code associated with the first final destination is recycled at a second final destination such that the recycled two-dimensional code is assigned to the second final destination.

A system for securing delivery of an autonomous vehicle, comprising:

• a processing circuitry;
• and
• a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the system to:
• receive location coordinates of a final destination to navigate to;
• determine visual features of a captured image of a current location of the autonomous vehicle, the captured image generated by an image sensor communicatively coupled with the autonomous vehicle, wherein the visual features are a subset of environmental features within the captured image;
• retrieve location coordinates of the current location of the autonomous vehicle from a positioning sensor communicatively coupled with the autonomous vehicle;
• match the location coordinates of the final destination and the current location;
• match the visual features of the captured image of the current location to reference visual features of a reference image associated with the location coordinates of the current location, wherein reference image data includes a map associated with the location coordinates, wherein the map includes a plurality of sub-sections and a plurality of the reference visual features, wherein each reference visual feature is a subset of environmental features in the respective reference image and is stored as metadata in the map associated with a respective sub-section of the map;
• match a verification code present within the captured image to a reference verification code, where the verification code is a two-dimensional visual code previously associated with the final destination;
• determine if the current location is the final destination based on the matching between the visual features of the captured image with the reference image;
• and
• reroute the autonomous vehicle from the current location to a new destination when the current location is determined to be different than the final destination, wherein the final destination is a first final destination, wherein the two-dimensional visual code associated with the first final destination is recycled at a second final destination such that the recycled two-dimensional code is assigned to the second final destination.