US 2025/0095412 A1 · AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES DETECTING AND REPORTING DEGRADED STATES OF PEERS

Abstract

An AV may detect degraded states of other AVs. For instance, the AV may use its sensors to detect one or more other vehicles in the local area. The AV may determine whether any of these vehicles is a peer of the AV based on features of these vehicles captured by its sensors. Alternatively, the AV may determine if any vehicle is a peer based on encrypted communication with the vehicle. The AV may also determine whether any peer AV has a state that deviates from an expected or desirable state. The AV may communicate with an online system and request the online system to provide information for identifying the vehicle or detecting degraded states. The AV may also report degradations in peer AVs to the online system. The online system may recover the degraded AV or dispatch another AV to complete a task assigned to the degraded AV.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

detecting, by a first vehicle, a second vehicle based on one or more sensors of the first vehicle;
determining whether the second vehicle is in a fleet of vehicles that includes the first vehicle;
after determining that the second vehicle is in the fleet of vehicles, detecting, by the first vehicle, whether there is a degradation in a state of the second vehicle;
and
after detecting degradation in the state of the second vehicle, transmitting, by the first vehicle, information of the degradation in the state of the second vehicle to an online system managing the fleet of vehicles, the online system to address the degradation in the state of the second vehicle.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions executable to perform operations, the operations comprising:

detecting, by a first vehicle, a second vehicle based on one or more sensors of the first vehicle;
determining whether the second vehicle is in a fleet of vehicles that includes the first vehicle;
after determining that the second vehicle is in the fleet of vehicles, detecting, by the first vehicle, whether there is a degradation in a state of the second vehicle;
and
after detecting degradation in the state of the second vehicle, transmitting, by the first vehicle, information of the degradation in the state of the second vehicle to an online system managing the fleet of vehicles, the online system to address the degradation in the state of the second vehicle.

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A computer system, comprising:

a computer processor for executing computer program instructions;
and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer program instructions executable by the computer processor to perform operations comprising:
detecting, by a first vehicle, a second vehicle based on one or more sensors of the first vehicle,
determining whether the second vehicle is in a fleet of vehicles that includes the first vehicle,
after determining that the second vehicle is in the fleet of vehicles, detecting, by the first vehicle, whether there is a degradation in a state of the second vehicle, and
after detecting degradation in the state of the second vehicle, transmitting, by the first vehicle, information of the degradation in the state of the second vehicle to an online system managing the fleet of vehicles, the online system to address the degradation in the state of the second vehicle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Autonomous vehicles detecting and reporting degraded states of peers

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