Artificial intelligence methods and systems for remote monitoring and control of autonomous vehicles

US12399492B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Guident Corp. · GB

Inventors

• Clifford Gross · Miami, US
• Harald Braun · Eßlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 5, 2020
• Grant date: Aug 26, 2025
• Expiry date: Aug 15, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05D1/0027
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Apparatus and methods relate to a controller configured to monitor incident risk levels of multiple independently governed autonomous vehicles remote from the controller simultaneously; and, in response to an unsafe incident risk level for one or more vehicles, take control of vehicles having an unsafe incident risk level, to restore a safe incident risk level; and, in response to determining incident risk has been restored to a safe level, returning control to the autonomous vehicles. Incident risk may be determined for multiple vehicles individually, and as a group, based on data from sensors distributed across multiple vehicles. Sensor data from multiple vehicles may be fused, permitting accurate incident risk determination for a vehicle group. Safety measures may be targeted by artificial intelligence to an individual vehicle or a vehicle group, to reduce incident risk by increasing separation between vehicles, or reducing vehicle speed.