Internal cleaning for autonomous vehicles
AssigneeWaymo LLC
InventorsRoman Manka, Min Wang, Timothy Willis, Mark Alexander Shand
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Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure relate cleaning systems for cleaning cabin air and interior surfaces of a vehicle. For instance, a cleaning system may include a surface cleaning device including a UVC light source. In addition, a request for confirmation that the vehicle may not be occupied may be sent to a remote computing device. In response to the request, a signal indicating whether or not the vehicle is occupied may be received. The surface cleaning device may then be activated based on the signal.
Claims19
A method for activating surface cleaning to clean interior surfaces of an autonomous vehicle, the method comprising:
- sending, by one or more processors of the vehicle to a remote computing device, a request for confirmation that the vehicle is not occupied;
- in response to the request, receiving, by the one or more processors from the remote computing device, a signal indicating that a human operator has determined that the vehicle is not occupied;
- and
- activating, by the one or more processors, a surface cleaning device based on the received signal.
A system for activating surface cleaning to clean interior surfaces of an autonomous vehicle, the system comprising:
- a surface cleaning device including a UVC light source;
- and
- one or more processors configured to:
- send, to a remote computing device, a request for confirmation that the vehicle is not occupied,
- in response to the request, receive, from the remote computing device, a signal indicating that a human operator has determined that the vehicle is not occupied, and
- activate a surface cleaning device based on the received signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.