Systems and methods for automatically customizing operation of a robotic vehicle

US10838415B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• QUALCOMM Incorporated · US

Inventors

• John Anthony Dougherty · Philadelphia, US
• Rizwan Ahmed · Chandler, US
• Stephen Marc Chaves · Philadelphia, US
• Aleksandr Kushleyev · Philadelphia, US
• Paul Daniel Martin · Devon, US
• Daniel Warren Mellinger, III · Philadelphia, US
• Michael Joshua Shomin · Philadelphia, US
• Michael Franco Taveira · San Diego, US
• Matthew Hyatt Turpin · Philadelphia, US
• Travis Van Schoyck · Whitemarsh, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 1, 2017
• Grant date: Nov 17, 2020
• Expiry date: May 26, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F3/0488
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Some embodiments include methods for customizing operation of the robotic vehicle for an operator. Such embodiments may include identifying a current operator of the robotic vehicle, configuring the robotic vehicle based on metadata associated with an operator profile for the operator, determining whether the operator has changed, and if so, identifying the new operator, deriving updated preference-based settings and performance-based settings for the new operator, and updating configurations of the robotic vehicle accordingly. Some embodiments may include identifying a current operator, retrieving an operator profile and associated metadata for the operator from a central database, configuring the robotic vehicle based on preference-based and performance-based settings, analyzing input data during operation, storing identified real-time operator habit information during operation of the robotic vehicle, deriving updated preference-based and performance-based settings for the operator; and uploading to the central database modifications to the metadata associated with the operator profile of the operator.