Coordinating on-demand transportation with autonomous vehicles
US10290074B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 25, 2017 |
| Grant date | May 14, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 25, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG08G1/202
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An on-demand transport facilitation system can receive transport requests from requesting users throughout a given region, and select autonomous vehicles (AVs) and human driver to service the transport requests. The AV can operating on a mapped and labeled autonomy grid within the given region. For a given transport request, the transport system can determine an optimal pick-up location along the autonomy grid based on the current location of the requesting user and a current location of a selected AV, and transmit data indicating walking directions from the current location of the requesting user to the optimal pick-up location. The transport system may then coordinate the rendezvous by monitoring progress made by the requesting user and AV to the optimal pick-up location, and controlling the pace of the AV.
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