Method for assigning control right for autonomous vehicle, and computer and recording medium for executing such method
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
InventorShunsuke KUHARA
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Abstract
A method for controlling rights of an autonomous vehicle includes acquiring, via a network, identification information for identifying a user or a terminal of the user, and dispatching request information that indicates a dispatch request for the autonomous vehicle issued by the user. The method further includes selecting the autonomous vehicle to be dispatched to the user from among multiple autonomous vehicles based on the dispatch request information, and assigning a control right for the selected autonomous vehicle, to the user or the terminal, based on the identification information.
Claims12
A method comprising:
- acquiring a present location of an autonomous vehicle and a target stopping location at which the autonomous vehicle is to stop;
- determining, based on the present location and the target stopping location, whether to move the autonomous vehicle after arrival at the target stopping location in an autonomous mode or a remote operation mode;
- and
- performing a movement operation within a predetermined range with respect to the target stopping location in accordance to an instruction issued by a user while the user is outside of the autonomous vehicle when the remote operation mode is determined to control the movement of the autonomous vehicle from the target stopping location.
A method comprising:
- acquiring, when an autonomous vehicle has arrived at a target stopping location at which the autonomous vehicle is to be stopped, a present location of the autonomous vehicle and a present location of a terminal of a user;
- determining, based on the present location of the autonomous vehicle and the present location of the terminal, whether to move the autonomous vehicle after arrival at the target stopping location in an autonomous mode or a remote operation mode;
- and
- performing a movement operation within a predetermined range with respect to the target stopping location in accordance to an instruction issued by the user while the user is outside of the autonomous vehicle when the remote operation mode is determined to control the movement of the autonomous vehicle from the target stopping location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.