Autonomous Vehicle Passenger Monitoring With Compliance Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous vehicles lack the oversight and supervision provided by human drivers, potentially leading to safety concerns regarding passenger behavior and well-being, as there is no human presence to monitor or intervene in events within the vehicle.
Innovation Solution
An integrated system comprising an autonomous vehicle equipped with a sensor network and processing circuitry that monitors passenger activity and health, generates a criteria profile for compliance boundaries, and sends alerts to supervisors or authorities in case of non-compliance, providing a virtual chaperone-like service.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If autonomous vehicles operate without human drivers, then productivity and automation are improved, but safety and reliability deteriorate due to lack of human supervision
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a supervisory device as an intermediary between the autonomous vehicle system and passengers/authorities. This device receives sensor data from the vehicle, analyzes passenger behavior and health status, and communicates with authorities when violations occur, providing the necessary supervision without requiring a human driver present in the vehicle
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where sensors monitor passenger activities and health metrics, the supervisory device analyzes this data against compliance boundaries, and alerts are sent back to authorities when violations are detected. This creates a closed-loop monitoring system that maintains safety through automated feedback rather than human intervention
2Reliability
If sensors and monitoring systems are added to autonomous vehicles, then passenger safety and monitoring capability are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system is segmented into distinct functional components: sensor modules for data collection, processing circuitry for data analysis, and communication interfaces for alert transmission. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently and simplifies the overall system architecture by distributing functions across separate modules rather than requiring a monolithic complex system
Solution Approach 2:
The supervisory device is designed as a multi-functional system that can monitor multiple passengers simultaneously, track various health metrics, detect different types of behavioral violations, and communicate with multiple authorities or stakeholders. This universality reduces overall system complexity by using a single integrated platform rather than requiring separate specialized systems for each monitoring function
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus for an autonomous vehicle may include a plurality of sensors and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive a trip plan via including a pick-up location, a drop-off location, an identity of the passenger, and control parameters, execute the trip plan according to the pick-up location, the drop-off location, the identity of the passenger, and the control parameters, receive sensor data from the plurality of sensors, and analyze the sensor data in relation to a criteria profile to determine whether compliance boundaries of the criteria profile have been violated. The criteria profile may be generated based on the trip plan and may indicate compliance boundaries for the trip plan. The processing circuitry may be further configured to send an alert in response to determining that the sensor data indicates that a violation of a compliance boundary of the criteria profile has occurred.