Vehicle and network assisted parking
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsOmar Makke, Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin
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Abstract
A system communicates with a plurality of vehicles onsite at a parking garage. The system determines an eventual intended destination for each respective vehicle of the plurality of vehicles and determines a path through the garage for each respective vehicle, to the destination for the respective vehicle. The system may segment the path into a plurality of shorter tasks for the respective vehicle, wherein each task moves the respective vehicle along the path until a point where the respective vehicle encounters an obstruction and instruct the respective vehicle to execute the shorter tasks for the respective vehicle.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- communicate with a plurality of vehicles onsite at a parking garage;
- determine an eventual intended destination for each respective vehicle of the plurality of vehicles;
- determine a path through the garage for each respective vehicle, to the destination for the respective vehicle;
- segment the path into a plurality of shorter tasks for the respective vehicle, wherein each task moves the respective vehicle along the path until a point where the respective vehicle encounters an obstruction;
- and
- instruct the respective vehicle to execute the shorter tasks for the respective vehicle.
A system comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- determine that a first vehicle is connected to a wireless network for a parking garage;
- establish communication with the first vehicle over the network;
- determine a path for the first vehicle through the garage to a destination inside the garage;
- segment the path into a plurality of first instructions that instruct the first vehicle to move through the parking garage while accommodating other vehicles also instructed by the processor, such that a given instruction instructs the first vehicle to move along the path until it encounters another vehicle also instructed by the processor;
- instruct the first vehicle to execute the plurality of instructions;
- monitor the path for at least one new obstruction not accommodated by the first instructions;
- adjust the first instructions with second instructions to accommodate the new obstruction;
- re-instruct the first vehicle to execute the first instructions modified by the second instructions;
- and
- continue to monitor, adjust and re-instruct until the first vehicle reaches the parking space.
A system comprising:
- a vehicle processor configured to:
- request a reservation in a parking garage;
- responsive to the request, receive reservation notification and credentials for connecting to a wireless network of the parking garage;
- determine that a vehicle, including the processor, is onsite at the parking garage and responsively connect to the wireless network using the credentials;
- and
- responsive to connecting to the wireless network, authorize a parking-garage-associated processor to instruct control of the vehicle while the vehicle travels within the parking garage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.