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US 12,755,223 B2Granted
Adjusting operating parameters of vehicles
AssigneeVolvo Autonomous Solutions AB
InventorsThorsten Helfrich, Christoffer Markusson, Peter Nilsson
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Abstract
A computer system having processing circuitry configured to handle two or more operating parameters associated with a set of vehicles operating in a work site is provided. The processing circuitry obtains a first indication indicative of an adjustment to be performed to the two or more operating parameters associated with the set of vehicles. The processing circuitry triggers the adjustment indicated by the first indication to be applied to the two or more operating parameters.
Claims12
A computer system comprising processing circuitry configured to handle two or more operating parameters associated with a set of vehicles operating in a work site, the processing circuitry is further configured to:
- obtain a first indication indicative of an adjustment to be performed to two or more operating parameters associated with the set of vehicles,
- obtain a second indication indicative of the two or more operating parameters associated with the set of vehicles, wherein obtaining the second indication of the two or more operating parameters comprises:
- obtaining an indication of a first operating parameter;
- and
- based on the first operating parameter, identifying at least one secondary operating parameter,
- trigger the adjustment indicated by the first indication by performing any one or both of:
- transmitting to the set of vehicles an indication of the adjustment and an indication of the two or more operating parameters, wherein each vehicle of the set of vehicles is triggered to locally adjust the two or more operating parameters based on the adjustment for the respective vehicle;
- and
- transmitting to a central planning unit an indication of the adjustment and an indication of the two or more operating parameters, wherein the central planning unit is triggered to control one or more operations to be performed by the set of vehicles based on the indicated adjustment and the indicated two or more operating parameters,
- wherein the two or more operating parameters respectively control and/or constrain one or more operations to be performed by the set of vehicles,
- wherein the first operating parameter is a parameter controlling a travel motion of the set of vehicles, and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to identify the at least one secondary operating parameter as comprising at least one second parameter controlling a load handling parameter of the set of vehicles,
- wherein the set of vehicles comprises a plurality of vehicles,
- wherein the set of vehicles comprises all vehicles operating in the work site, or a sub-set of all vehicles operating in the work site, and
- wherein transmitting the indication of the adjustment and the indication of the two or more operating parameters causes the two or more operating parameters to be adjusted to control an entire workflow at the work site.
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A first vehicle, comprising:
- a computer system including processing circuitry configured to handle two or more operating parameters associated with a set of vehicles operating in a work site, the processing circuitry is further configured to:
- obtain a first indication indicative of an adjustment to be performed to two or more operating parameters associated with the set of vehicles,
- obtain a second indication indicative of the two or more operating parameters associated with the set of vehicles, wherein obtaining the second indication of the two or more operating parameters comprises:
- obtaining an indication of a first operating parameter;
- and
- based on the first operating parameter, identifying at least one secondary operating parameter,
- trigger the adjustment indicated by the first indication by performing any one or both of:
- transmitting to the set of vehicles an indication of the adjustment and an indication of the two or more operating parameters, wherein each vehicle of the set of vehicles is triggered to locally adjust the two or more operating parameters based on the adjustment for the respective vehicle;
- and
- transmitting to a central planning unit an indication of the adjustment and an indication of the two or more operating parameters, wherein the central planning unit is triggered to control one or more operations to be performed by the set of vehicles based on the indicated adjustment and the indicated two or more operating parameters,
- wherein the two or more operating parameters respectively control and/or constrain one or more operations to be performed by the set of vehicles, wherein the first vehicle is at least partly autonomous,
- wherein the set of vehicles comprises a plurality of vehicles,
- wherein the set of vehicles comprises all vehicles operating in the work site, or a sub-set of all vehicles operating in the work site, and
- wherein triggering the adjustment causes the two or more operating parameters to be adjusted to control an entire workflow at the work site.
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A computer-implemented method for handling two or more operating parameters associated with a set of vehicles operating in a work site, comprising:
- by processing circuitry of a computer system, obtaining first indication indicative of an adjustment to be performed to two or more operating parameters associated with the set of vehicles,
- by the processing circuitry, obtaining a second indication indicative of the two or more operating parameters associated with the set of vehicles, wherein obtaining the second indication of the two or more operating parameters comprises:
- obtaining an indication of a first operating parameter;
- and
- based on the first operating parameter, identifying at least one secondary operating parameter,
- by the processing circuitry, triggering the adjustment indicated by the first indication by performing any one or both of:
- transmitting to the set of vehicles an indication of the adjustment and an indication of the two or more operating parameters, wherein each vehicle of the set of vehicles is triggered to locally adjust the two or more operating parameters based on the adjustment for the respective vehicle;
- and
- transmitting to a central planning unit an indication of the adjustment and an indication of the two or more operating parameters, wherein the central planning unit is triggered to control one or more operations to be performed by the set of vehicles based on the indicated adjustment and the indicated two or more operating parameters,
- wherein the two or more operating parameters respectively control and/or constrain one or more operations to be performed by the set of vehicles;
- and optionally, wherein the method further comprises any one or more out of:
- by the processing circuitry, obtaining a third indication indicative of the set of vehicles, wherein the first operating parameter is a parameter controlling a travel motion of the set of vehicles, and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to identify the at least one secondary operating parameter as comprising at least one second parameter controlling a load handling parameter of the set of vehicles,
- wherein the set of vehicles comprises a plurality of vehicles,
- wherein the set of vehicles comprises all vehicles operating in the work site, or a sub-set of all vehicles operating in the work site, and
- wherein triggering the adjustment causes the two or more operating parameters to be adjusted to control an entire workflow at the work site.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.