US 2019/0056733 A1 · SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE OPERATION OF ROBOT VEHICLES

Abstract

An autonomous robot vehicle in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes a land vehicle conveyance system, a sensor system configured to capture information including surrounding environment information and/or vehicle subsystem information, a communication system configured to communicate with a remote human operator management system, at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor(s), cause the autonomous robot land vehicle to, autonomously, determine based on the captured information to request a remote human operator, and communicate a request to the remote human operator management system for a remote human operator to assume control of the land vehicle conveyance system, where the request includes at least a portion of the captured information.

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Dependent claims

An autonomous robot land vehicle comprising:

a land vehicle conveyance system;
a sensor system configured to capture information including at least one of:
surrounding environment information or vehicle subsystem information;
a communication system configured to communicate with a remote human operator management system;
at least one processor;
and
a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the autonomous robot land vehicle to, autonomously:
determine, based on the captured information, to request a remote human operator, and
communicate a request to the remote human operator management system for a remote human operator to assume control of the land vehicle conveyance system, the request including at least a portion of the captured information.

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A system for assigning remote human operators to autonomous land vehicles, the system comprising:

a database including experience information on a plurality of remote human operators;
a communication system configured to communicate with a plurality of remote autonomous land vehicles;
at least one processor;
and
a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
receive, via the communication system, requests from the remote autonomous land vehicles for remote human operators to assume control, each of the requests including risk information generated by the corresponding remote autonomous land vehicle,
determine that a number of the requests is greater than a number of available remote human operators,
access risk ratings associated with the requests, wherein the risk ratings include at least one of:
ratings determined by the system based on the risk information generated by the remote autonomous land vehicles or ratings that are determined by the remote autonomous land vehicles and included in the risk information generated by the remote autonomous land vehicles;
and
assign at least some of the available remote human operators to at least some of the remote autonomous land vehicles based on at least one of:
the risk ratings or the experience information on the plurality of remote human operators.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Systems and methods for remote operation of robot vehicles

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