Autonomous Vehicle Fleet Dispatch for Real-Time Event Boundaries
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to efficiently manage and rapidly deploy resources during events requiring roadblocks, detours, and impromptu directions due to insufficient or delayed resource availability.
Innovation Solution
A system and method utilizing a controller to manage a set of autonomous vehicles, each equipped with telematics units, to dynamically dispatch and assign duties based on real-time availability and proximity, forming boundaries, monitoring, and providing guidance at event centers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If a manual resource deployment system is used for events, then resource availability can be maintained through human coordination, but the response speed and deployment efficiency are delayed and insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The autonomous vehicles autonomously navigate to event locations, self-coordinate to form boundaries, and self-manage traffic redirection without human intervention. The system enables resources to deploy themselves rapidly through autonomous decision-making and coordination algorithms.
Solution Approach 2:
Vehicles are pre-positioned and pre-configured with event response capabilities before events occur. The system maintains a ready-state fleet that can immediately deploy when events are detected, eliminating deployment delays.
2Quantity of substance
If more vehicles are deployed to events, then resource support is enhanced, but resource availability and rapid deployment are compromised due to insufficient readiness
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors vehicle locations, event conditions, and boundary formation progress in real-time. This feedback enables dynamic redistribution of vehicles to optimize both the number deployed and their strategic positioning for maximum effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The vehicle fleet transitions from static parking to dynamic deployment based on real-time event needs. Vehicles can be rapidly reassigned and redistributed as events evolve, maintaining optimal resource allocation without sacrificing readiness.
3Reliability
If autonomous vehicles form boundaries and monitor events, then event security and traffic management are improved, but the system complexity and coordination requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The event response task is segmented into specialized vehicle roles: boundary formation vehicles, monitoring vehicles, and traffic redirection vehicles. Each segment performs its function independently while contributing to overall event security, reducing coordination complexity through functional specialization.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for managing a vehicle set includes a controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded. The vehicle set includes a plurality of autonomous vehicles each having a respective telematics unit adapted to communicate with the controller. The controller is adapted to receive notification of an event in real-time and identify at least one center of the event. The controller is adapted to determine a respective status of the vehicle set in real-time, including a respective availability and a respective proximity to the event. The controller is adapted to dispatch selected ones of the vehicle set to the event based in part on the respective status and assign event duties to the selected ones of the vehicle set. The event duties including forming a boundary around the at least one center of the event by being physically stationed around the at least one center.