Vehicle control system
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsLuke Niewiadomski, Hamid M. Golgiri, Lihui Chen, George Edmund Walley
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Abstract
Image data is obtained about an area that includes a plurality of sub-areas. One of the sub-areas is selected as a destination sub-area based on the destination sub-area being unoccupied. Then, upon detecting a candidate marker for the destination sub-area, the image data including the candidate marker is provided to a remote computer. A vehicle is operated to a stop in the destination sub-area. Then, upon receiving a message from the remote computer specifying an availability of the destination sub-area based at least on the image data, the vehicle is maintained in the destination sub-area or the vehicle is operated out of the destination sub-area.
Claims20
A system, comprising a computer including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
- obtain image data about an area that includes a plurality of sub-areas;
- select one of the sub-areas as a destination sub-area based on the destination sub-area being unoccupied;
- then, upon detecting a candidate marker for the destination sub-area, provide image data including the candidate marker to a remote computer;
- operate a vehicle to a stop in the destination sub-area;
- and
- then, upon receiving a message from the remote computer specifying an availability of the destination sub-area based on at least the image data, one of (a) maintain the vehicle in the destination sub-area or (b) operate the vehicle out of the destination sub-area based on the message.
A method comprising,
- obtaining image data about an area that includes a plurality of sub-areas;
- selecting one of the sub-areas as a destination sub-area based on the destination sub-area being unoccupied;
- then, upon detecting a candidate marker for the destination sub-area, providing image data including the candidate marker to a remote computer;
- operating a vehicle to a stop in the destination sub-area;
- and
- then, upon receiving a message from the remote computer specifying an availability of the destination sub-area based on at least the image data, one of (a) maintaining the vehicle in the destination sub-area or (b) operating the vehicle out of the destination sub-area based on the message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.