Fleet maintenance management for autonomous vehicles

US10726644B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Lyft, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Farzad Cyrus Foroughi Abari · San Bruno, US
• Aaron Jacob Levine Friedman · San Francisco, US
• John Houston · San Francisco, US
• Adam Hart Reis · San Francisco, US
• Alexander Thomas Starns · Redwood City, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 22, 2017
• Grant date: Jul 28, 2020
• Expiry date: Dec 3, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07C5/006
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In particular embodiments, a computing system may generate a prediction of requests for autonomous vehicles in a fleet of collectively managed autonomous vehicles based on a current condition and a future event, the prediction including a predicted request level and a predicted duration of the request level. The system may receive status information from fleet vehicles and identify a vehicle in need of service. The system may receive status information from service centers and identify a service center to service the vehicle. The system may determine a time at which to service the vehicle at the identified service center based on the generated prediction of requests, schedule the vehicle for service at the identified service center at the determined time, and instruct the vehicle to drive to the service center to be serviced at the determined time. In particular embodiments, the prediction of requests may be generated using machine learning.