Detecting, monitoring and mitigating traffic control device anomalies

Abstract

A cloud-based network device includes: a reporting module configured to receive first perception information regarding a target traffic control device from a scouter vehicle indicating an anomaly associated with the target traffic control device; at least one recruitment module configured to recruit worker vehicles by signaling the worker vehicles to drive through a target region where target traffic control device is located and collect second perception information regarding the target traffic control device; at least one consensus module configured to establish a consensus regarding the target traffic control device based on the first perception information and the second perception information; and at least one traffic control device avoidance module configured to signal at least one of i) other traffic control devices, and ii) onlooker vehicles, to prevent the onlooker vehicles from driving through the target region.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.