System for forming platoons to teleoperate a group of vehicles

A computing system for platoon formation comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory coupled to the one or more processors to store instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• determining a plurality of vehicles traveling to a destination, the determination based on platoon formation messages received from the plurality of vehicles;
• determine, from the platoon formation messages, a subset of vehicles from the plurality of vehicles that have a latency capability at or below a teleoperated driving (ToD) threshold;
• determining from the subset of vehicles a lead vehicle for a platoon, wherein the lead vehicle comprises a latency capability with a lowest latency of the subset of vehicles;
• determining from the subset of vehicles a follow vehicle for the platoon, wherein the follow vehicle comprises a vehicular capability at or above a platoon following threshold for the vehicular capability;
• forming the platoon between the lead vehicle and the follow vehicle;
• upon forming the platoon, deactivating video streaming of the follow vehicle;
• and
• generating a platoon route for the platoon based on video data obtained by the lead vehicle.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• determining a plurality of vehicles traveling to a destination, the determination based on platoon formation messages received from the plurality of vehicles;
• determine, from the platoon formation messages, a subset of vehicles from the plurality of vehicles that have a latency capability at or below a teleoperated driving (ToD) threshold;
• determining from the subset of vehicles a lead vehicle for a platoon, wherein the lead vehicle comprises a latency capability with a lowest latency of the subset of vehicles;
• determining from the subset of vehicles a follow vehicle for the platoon, wherein the follow vehicle comprises a vehicular capability at or above a platoon following threshold for the vehicular capability;
• forming the platoon between the lead and follow vehicles;
• upon forming the platoon, deactivating video streaming of the follow vehicle and linking communication channels of the lead vehicle to communication channels of the follow vehicle;
• and
• generating a platoon route for the platoon based on video data obtained by the lead vehicle.