Vehicle management
AssigneeBritish Telecommunications public limited company
InventorsJonathan HART, Ruth BROWN, Maria CUEVAS RAMIREZ
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Abstract
A method of controlling an Autonomous Vehicle (AV) 110, comprising the steps of: detecting a fault in a first AV 110-1; in response to detecting said fault, transmitting a communication for alerting an AV of the fault, wherein said communication is a device-to-device wireless communication; receiving said communication at a second AV 110-2; identifying the second AV as being capable of retrieving at least part of the first AV and delivering said at least part to an intended destination; and instructing the second AV to perform the retrieving and delivering.
Claims23
A method of controlling an Autonomous Vehicle (AV), comprising the steps of:
- detecting a fault in a first AV;
- in response to detecting said fault, transmitting a communication for alerting an AV of the fault, wherein said communication is a device-to-device wireless communication;
- receiving said communication at a second AV;
- identifying the second AV as being capable of retrieving at least part of the first AV and delivering said at least part to an intended destination;
- and
- instructing the second AV to perform the retrieving and delivering.
An Autonomous Vehicle (AV) comprising:
- means for detecting a fault in the AV;
- a transmitter for transmitting a communication for alerting a recovery AV of the fault, wherein said communication is a device-to-device wireless communication;
- a processor configured to:
- identify a recovery AV as being capable of recovering at least part of the AV and to deliver said at least part to an intended destination;
- and
- instruct the identified recovery AV to perform the retrieving and delivering.
An Autonomous Vehicle (AV) comprising:
- a receiver for receiving a communication providing notice that a faulty AV has a fault, wherein said communication is a device-to-device wireless communication;
- means for carrying a payload;
- and
- a processor configured to instruct the AV to retrieve, by the means for carrying a payload, at least part of the faulty AV and to deliver said at least part to an intended destination.
A system for managing Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) for delivering a payload, comprising:
- a first AV comprising:
- means for detecting a fault in the first AV;
- and
- a transmitter for transmitting a communication for alerting a second AV of the fault, wherein said communication is a device-to-device wireless communication;
- a second AV comprising:
- a receiver for receiving said device-to-device wireless communication;
- and
- means for carrying a payload;
- a first processor for identifying the second AV as being capable of recovering at least part of the first AV and of delivering said at least part to an intended destination;
- and a second processor for instructing the second AV to perform the recovering and delivering.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.